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Corporación Deportiva Atlético Nacional is a Colombian football team based in Medellín. They play their home games at the Estadio Atanasio Girardot stadium which also serves as home to Deportivo Independiente Medellín. It is also known for being not only one of the most important clubs in Colombia (with ten championships won), but also for being one of the most important football clubs in South America, wining the 1989 Libertadores cup, and marking an era of South American football in the 90's decade.
[edit] OverviewThe club Unión, now known as Club Atletico Nacional, was founded in 1947 by Luis Alberto Villegas Lopera, Jorge Osorio, Alberto Eastman, Gilberto Molina, Raúl Zapata Lotero, Jorge Gómez Jaramillo, Arturo Torres Posada and Julio Ortiz. Atletico Nacional was the first Colombian team to win the Copa Libertadores de América, they did so in 1989, and were also runner-ups in 1995. The winning of this cup was done in a special manner since all of the team's players were Colombian and thus Atletico Nacional earned the nickname of the "Puros Criollos." The team has been at the top of the Fútbol Profesional Colombiano ten times, winning in 1954, 1973, 1976, 1981, 1991, 1994, 1999 (when there was only one champion per year), 2005, 2007-I and 2007-II. Atlético Nacional was home to international stars like Faustino Asprilla, René Higuita, Víctor Aristizábal, Andres Escobar, Iván Córdoba, Leonel Alvarez, Alexis García, Albeiro Usuriaga, Aquivaldo Mosquera Mauricio Serna, Juan Pablo Angel and others. The best foreigners: Cesar Cueto and Oscar Rossi The team wears green and white vertically striped jerseys. The team is actually owned by the Organización Ardila Lülle. Nacional's Mascot is the Nacho with green and white striped as it is the team's uniform. Nacho was created in 1998. For fifteen years, from 1989 to 2004, the team was regarded as the only team to win the Copa Libertadores (until Once Caldas won over Boca Juniors), and until 1999, the only Colombian team to win any major international tournament (America de Cali, winning over Independiente Santa Fe the Copa Merconorte). The team is also the only Colombian club to reach the final stage of the Copa Sudamericana, losing against Argentina's San Lorenzo in 2002 [edit] El Clásico PaisaMain article: El Clásico Paisa Atletico Nacional has had a long rivalry with Independiente Medellin. When the two teams face each other it is considered one of the most important matches in Colombia. It is mainly a rivalry because both teams share the same stadium (Estadio Atanasio Girardot), and both teams have about the same number of fans within the city of Medellin. The rivalry started to be taken noticed by the early 90's since Independiente Medellin was growing stronger year by year. Now days both teams are declared one of the top teams in Colombia. Independiente Medellin is sometimes referred to have a Green Star since in the 2004-I tournament they won the only final the two have ever faced. However Atletico Nacional has 104 wins over Independiente Medellin who only has 70 and tied 81. [edit] Los Puros CriollosThe all "criollos", which refers to The all Colombians, names a period between 1987 to 1999, in where the philosophy of the team was to play only with Colombian players or preferably footballers from Medellin. In this time period Nacional fans remember the best club times, when the team play was compared to pure magic or art. It was a slow, pass by pass motioned game, but also a game designed to entertain the fans and bring the attention to the ball itself and how to treat it as a philosophy of play. In other means, it was a concept that marked an era in Colombian football and launched the golden era of the national team too. From this era, Nacional started to be the base of the national Colombian team to the qualification and world cups of 1990, 1994 and 1998, being the base team with numerous players (whom like Faustino Asprilla or Rene Higuita later went globaly famous) and also with managers like Francisco Maturana and Hernan Dario Gomez, who made a guarantee that Colombian national team game would be the same as the trademarked Atletico Nacional's way to play. [edit] Honors[edit] Amateur Era
[edit] National Honors[edit] International Honors
[edit] Friendly Tournaments
[edit] Players[edit] Current rosterAs of July 28, 2009
[edit] Reserve & Youth Squad
[edit] Current seasonMain article: Atletico Nacional 2009 Schedule [edit] Notable managers[edit] Stadium Information
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