The rojinegros of Atlas are finalists of the Apertura 2021 tournament of Mexican soccer, after more than 22 years without being able to reach a final and, 70 years after their only and last Liga MX championship, those of the Academy will have the possibility of breaking that drought of trophies in their cabinets.
For this reason, in the following list we remember the best footballers who have emerged from their quarry over the years, since they have contributed a lot in that sector to Aztec football.
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In the 90’s, the Guadalajara team was one of the teams that used to occupy the top positions in the classification and during that time Zepeda was characterized by being the scorer of the rojinegros, also went through many Aztec football clubs. His good performances led him to the Tricolor where he became champion in the 1999 Confederations Cup.
The man born in 1935, was only 16 years old when he was discovered by the red and black board, holds a mark of 61 goals scored, positioning himself among the club’s greatest scorers. In addition, he was called up to the Tricolor box to play the 1954 World Cup in Switzerland.
He joined the basic forces of Atlas in 1996. He came onto the bench in the first team for the first time in 1997 and was with the club until 2003, then went to clubs like Tecos students, Chivas, Santos Laguna and Monarcas Morelia. He was also a national team and played 43 games as a Tricolor.
Osorno He was one of the referents of the rojinegros at the end of the 90’s, where he even reached the final of the Summer of 99 with a great litter of footballers and got the opportunity to be considered for the Mexican team by winning the 1999 Confederations Cup and 2003 Gold Cup. Besides being runner-up in the Copa América in 2001.
He played most of his career at Atlas, from his debut until 2003, then from 2004 to 2007 and from 2009 to 2011, where he scored 73 goals.
One of the best goalkeepers that Mexican soccer has had in the last decade. Jesus Crown began his career at Atlas in 2002. He played 47 games between 2002 and 2004, before moving on to the ranks of the Tecos de la UAG and since 2009 he has been the starting goalkeeper for Cruz Azul.
He made his debut with the Atlas in 1993 and the technical director responsible for making his debut in the First Division was Marcelo bielsa. In the 1993-94 campaign he had his opportunity and made the most of it, becoming a starter immediately and playing his first Liguilla.
Immovable from the Atlas framework in the 1994-95 and 1995-96 campaigns. While, for the next tournament he was transferred to Club América, later he went to Chivas, Santos Laguna and became a benchmark of the Mexican team being the starting goalkeeper in Germany 2006.
He began his professional career at the Atlas debuting in 1993 and receives the nickname of ‘Baby‘for being considered by the Mexican team at an early age. For the Winter 1998 tournament he is transferred to the Tecos de la UAG and in the 1999 Winter tournament he was acquired by Club América, where he became the undisputed starter, achieving the titles of Summer 2002 and Clausura 2005 where he started, in total he participated in 19 tournaments, scoring 27 goals in 310 games.
In addition, he goes to the Old Continent with the Sttutgart for a little more than two seasons where he was champion, and then went to Major League Soccer to end his career with the Chicago Fire.
Santos Laguna’s historical top scorer with 205 goals and the Mexican team’s second highest scorer with 46 goals, began his career with the Guadalajara team.
It was debuted in 1994 by Marcelo bielsa and only two years later he was signed by the Comarca Lagunera team, he has been one of the best Mexican strikers in history.
Reference and historical captain of the Mexican team, the ‘little Prince” He made his debut as a rojinegro in 2005 and just two years later and 64 games played in the First Division he was signed by the Deportivo La Coruña from Spain to begin his journey through European football.
Later I would go to clubs like Valencia, Bayer Leverkusen, PSV Eindhoven and Real Betis, since then they have been playing in Europe at the highest level for more than 15 years.
The highest representative of the red and black quarry is one of the best Mexican players of all time, the historic captain of the Mexican national team and five times World Cup, debuted with only 17 years in 1996 and was part of the “Children heroes“that reached the final of the Summer 1999.
At the end of that contest, Rafael Marquez He emigrated to European football at the age of 20. And it was part of the AS Monaco and FC Barcelona, teams where he managed to lift the league, cup and Super Cup titles of both countries, as well as two Champions League, a European Super Cup and a Club World Cup.
After seven seasons in Spanish football, the Mexican was signed by the New York Red Bulls from Major League Soccer; In 2012 he returned to Mexican soccer to join the León Club, where he won the Liga MX twice, leading the AP 2013 and CL 2014. After his great role shown in the 2014 World Cup, Marquez returned to European football to be part of the Hellas verona.
But finally, in 2016 he returned to the Foxes to finish his career and after the end of the Clausura 2018 and later after the 2018 World Cup in Russia, he hung up his boots.
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