Introduction
In 1996 the Atlético won La Liga on ten occasions which includes a league and cup. They also got Copa del Rey on ten occasions which include two Supercopa de España and one Copa Eva Duarte. The football team of Atletico won the European Cup in 1962. They were runners-up in 1963 and 1986. While in the years 974, 2014 and 2016 they were Champions League runners-up.
Atlético Madrid football team is a third-most successful team in Spain. It is successful because of the number of UEFA titles won.
History
Athletic Club de Madrid that got founded in 1903 whose founders are three Basque students living in Madrid. This Club is a youth branch of Athletic Bilbao and had the first club shirts having colors blue and white. The first shirts got inspiration by Blackburn Rovers. After eight years, with the influence of Southampton, the Club changed the shirt to red and white. The Club changes the name to Athletic Aviación de Madrid in 1939 while in 1947, the Club got the name for the final time which was Club Atlético de Madrid.
Under the leadership of the Argentine Helenio Herrera, this football team won two more La Liga titles at the start of 50s. After untouchable Real Madrid and Barcelona, this team is considered as the third best Club in the country for the rest of the decade.
Animals
During 1973–1975, this team got the ill sounding name animals under the management of Juan Carlos Lorenzo. They got this name after the European Cup semi-final against Celtic. The people remember this match because of Atlético’s method of winning as Atlético achieved a goalless away draw. In this match, most of the players of the team got yellow cards, three Atlético players sent off, while the opponent got 51 free kicks. They faced Bayern Munich in the final after a win in the second leg advance. The Germans won this match at the end.
Ninth La Liga
This team had to wait a long till for its next rise to prominence. The Jesús Gil’s who spent large amounts of money on big-name signings and changed coaches. This way and philosophy didn’t work and wasn’t able to yield results right away.
In 1991 and 1992 they got two Copa del Rey titles which were the reason for the ending of their long-awaited journey. Atlético Madrid football team finally won ninth La Liga in 1996. After that, they also got another Copa del Rey trophy.
Best player in Atletico Madrid
The following is the list of some best players in Atletico Madrid:
- Luis Aragonés is the best player as he has the record for most goals scored with 173.
- Diego Godín has the record of most appearances for Atlético as the foreigner.
- Another good player is Raúl García who made 329 appearances in his journey for the Club from 2007 to 2015.
- The current player who made the most appearances is Koke.
The new stadium
The hold stadium of Atletico Madrid was Estadio La Peineta which was an athletic stadium. It can hold just 20,000 spectators, but the new stadium can hold approximately 67,000 spectators, meaning almost 12,000 more fans. The new stadium will be given a naming partner for those ever-present commercial reasons. According to the Atletico, they claim that there will be a VIP experience at the new stadium and it will be best in the world. They also said that there would be a different way of experiencing the sport live. The difference would be in terms of the quality of services, the accessibility through dedicated elevators, generous size of the spaces, and the parking available inside the stadium.
This new stadium is at a distance of 20 minutes in the Rosas district of Madrid, which is around 20 minutes’ drive east of the Calderon.
Conclusion
Atletico Madrid football team is the third-best team because of the success it got. You can get to know all the information about this team in this article and UFABET168 . The article contains the history of this team; it’s achievements, hard time and the information about the old and new stadium.
