The Atlas Foxes are getting closer and closer to being able to achieve the dream of a new title in their history. It has been more than 50 years since they last won the championship and now they are only three games away from achieving the feat.
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The vast majority of athletic fans have not seen their team champion and that is exasperating. Although hope dies last and today more than they are to death with their club. Likewise, they had to pass 17 years so that the tapatíos returned to a semifinal.
Was the April 22, 1951 when the rojinegros defeated the staunch rival, the Chivas del Guadalajara, by a score of 1-0 with a solo goal by Edwin Cubero, on the Martínez Sandoval Park field.
In the champion team the starting eleven was made up of Raul Cordoba, Juan ‘Chapetes’ Gómez, Felipe Zetter, Luis Ornelas, Guillermo del Valle, Javier Novello, Guadalupe Velazquez, Juan Jose Novo, Adalberto ‘Dumbo’ López, Jose Mercado and Edwin cubero. The squad was led by the Argentine coach Eduardo Valdatti.
On the other hand, the last time the La Academia team reached a final was on November 7, 2013, in that year’s Copa MX. The rojinegros did a good job and in the quarterfinals they beat Pumas 2-1; In the semifinal they gave an account of Oaxaca and for the decisive game they faced Monarcas Morelia.
In a heart match, the final score was tied 3-3, with goals from Omar Bravo (39 ‘), Matías Vuoso (51’) and Lucas Ayala (57 ‘).
Everything had to be defined from the penalty spot, where, out of four shots, Atlas only scored once, via Flavio Santos; those who erred were Vuoso, Leandro Cufré and Lucas Ayala. Two of the heroes ended up becoming villains when their opportunity failed.
The starting eleven was made up of a team of consolidated men and the vast majority of men with a path already traveled in Mexican football. The coach at that time was José Luis Mata.
Miguel Pinto (P);
Facundo Erpen, Gregorio Torres, Amaury Ponce, Francisco León;
Lucas Ayala, José Luis Chávez, Edson Rivera, Flavio Santos;
Omar Bravo and Matías Vuoso.
This is how all the candles by the athletic supporters are lit to be able, firstly, to account for the Pumas in the second leg of the semifinals, to immediately play the games of the grand final, this after 70 years without placing a second star on his shield. Is the champion Atlas coming?
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