Club Nacional de Football is a traditional Uruguayan sports club, best known for its football team, based in Montevideo and founded in May 14, 1899. Three-time winner of the Copa Libertadores, three-time winner of the Intercontinental Cup.The club is the result of an alliance between the Uruguay Athletic and Montevideo Football Club. Nacional plays in the Uruguayan First Division. Nacional engages in several sports, but football is by far the most important, a sport in which it has won worldwide recognitionNacional plays most home games at its own legendary stadium, the 20,000 capacity Parque Central, built in 1900. However, in the past decades that stadium was not used very often because Nacional played at the national stadium Estadio Centenario, sharing it with Peñarol that have no stadium. High-risk matches and derbies are still played at the Centenario. In 2005, the renovation of Parque Central allowed Nacional to play home matches there more often and now has a capacity of 30,000.Nacional is nicknamed “tricolores” (“three colors”), and “bolsilludos”, later shortened to “bolsos” (“bolsillo” being the Spanish word for pocket - Nacional used to play with a jersey that had a pocket on the chest). “La blanca” (The white) is less common.This is a request from MisterGoal's friend, Carlos from Uruguay!!!
