Saturday, November 10, 2007
Atlas (Mexico) 2008 Away kit
Club de Futbol Atlas, also known as Atlas, is a Mexican professional football club. Atlas is one of three teams that plays in Mexico's second largest city, Guadalajara, in the Primera División de México. The club's home stadium is Estadio Jalisco, which is also the home venue for Guadalajara.The Atlas Football Club was founded after a nostalgic conversation in a cafe of Guadalajara, Mexico, where a few students of the upper class society were remembering their experience of playing football in British Universities' squads where they had spent the last few years. Alfonso and Juan José “Lico” Cortina, Pedro “Perico” and Carlos Fernández del Valle, the three Orendain brothers and Federico Collignon (who had studied in Berlin) finally decided in the summer of 1916, to set up a football team called "Club de fútbol Atlas". The club was founded in Tlaquepaque, outside the city of Guadalajara.