When the Primera División resumed after the Spanish Civil War, it was Atlético Aviación ( nowadays Atlético Madrid ), Valencia, and Sevilla that initially emerged as the strongest clubs.

While other clubs lost players to exile, execution, and as casualties of the war, the Atlético team was reinforced by a merger.

After a small break he was appointed Club Atlético Huracán manager in his native Argentina in September 2007, he steered the club to 7th in the table before resigning at the end of the Apertura 2007.

In his penultimate season, he suffered a severe knee injury which rendered him unavailable for most of the successful 1994 – 95 league campaign, but still bounced back for a final solid season, after which he left for Atlético Celaya in Mexico, where Butragueño was also playing, shortly after the arrival at Madrid of president Lorenzo Sanz.

However, the first Champions League match at home against Atlético Madrid was lost 0 – 3.

Bayern also won the next two championships, but the zenith was their triumph in the European Cup final against Atlético Madrid, which Bayern won 4 – 0 after a replay.

The club's first president was Sizino Patuska ( who had participated in the founding of Atlético Internacional and was the founder of Americano ).

Only two matches before the end of the competition Santos was able to surpass Atlético Paranaense, who had been on top of the table for the majorit of the season.

However the first official match of Palestra was in a 3 – 0 win over future archrivals Clube Atlético Mineiro.

Clube Atlético Mineiro was founded on March 25, 1908 by 22 low-class boys from Belo Horizonte.

Atlético Paranaense was born as the result of a merge between two older Curitiba teams, Internacional-PR and América-PR.

The club's first match was played on April 6, when Atlético Paranaense beat Universal FC 4-2.

Atlético Paranaense was the first Paranaense club to participate in the Torneio Roberto Gomes Pedrosa, today known as the Campeonato Brasileiro Série A.

In 2001, Atlético Paranaense won its first Campeonato Brasileiro Série A, after defeating São Caetano ; and in 2004 was runner-up, with the striker Washington scoring a record 34 goals in a single edition of the Série A.

In the 2000 edition the club was eliminated in the second round and in 2005, Atlético Paranaense was the runner-up of the competition after being defeated by São Paulo.

Atlético Mineiro, which is also called by its nickname and mascot " Galo " ( rooster ) is one of the oldest football clubs in the city and was founded in 1908.

In spite of it, during the 1935-36 season Sevilla FC was about to descend again to Second Division, on having been third to last ( two teams descended ), and achieving the continuation in the last game of the season against Atlético de Madrid.

Juande Ramos, responsible for Sevilla's recent successes, resigned as manager on 27 October to take the post at England's Tottenham Hotspur and was replaced by Sevilla Atlético manager Manolo Jimenez.

Finally on December 13, the football section was renamed CURCC Peñarol, and later on March 1914 to Club Atlético Peñarol, a change approved by the Uruguayan football association and all the clubs involved in the championship, including Nacional.

The first leg in Norway was a 1 – 1 draw, while the return leg in Bangor was a 0 – 0 draw, resulting in Bangor progressing to the second round, where the club was drawn against the mighty Spanish side Atlético Madrid.

However, his time at Atlético was hampered massively by injuries, and he never quite achieved the heights that were expected of him.

The signing of Oscar Amarilla was negative for Olimpia as expected, as the team reached the 1989 Copa Libertadores finals but came up short, being defeated by Atlético Nacional.

The 1960s, however were dominated by Real Madrid and Atlético Bilbao only had a single Copa del Rey win in 1969.

* 1963: Tottenham Hotspur 5 – 1 Atlético Madrid-Tottenham became the first British side to win a European trophy, beating reigning champions Atlético Madrid by a scoreline which remains the joint largest margin of victory in a one-match European final.

He also won the European Cup Winners ' Cup in 1963-scoring twice in the 5-1 defeat of Atlético Madrid, ensuring that Spurs became the first British club to win a European trophy.

In 1974 Peñarol became the first Uruguayan club to win a Libertadores match in Argentina, after defeating Club Atlético Huracán in Buenos Aires 3 – 0.

Tottenham Hotspur became the first club to win the Double in the 20th century in 1960-61, and the first English club to win a European trophy, the UEFA Cup Winners ' Cup in 1962-63 when they beat Atlético Madrid 5 – 1 in the final.

He scored a total of 24 goals in 24 league appearances for Atlético ( and an additional five goals from seven appearances in Europe ), which led him to the win the Pichichi Trophy, as the league's top scorer.

After that continental win, Futre was traded to Atlético de Madrid in Spain, earning a reported annual salary of € 650, 000.

On 14 January 2010, Simão scored twice to lead Atlético to a 5 – 1 home victory over Recreativo de Huelva and into the domestic cup's last-eight ( 5 – 4 aggregate win ), including a late goal that decided the tie from a superbly taken freekick.

Again, he played in significantly more minutes than García as Atlético finally qualified to the Europa League, and added four goals in La Liga, including a brace against Málaga CF in a 3 – 0 away win, both goals coming from headers.

Atlético Nacional was the first Colombian team to win the Copa Libertadores de América, which they did in 1989.

On 28 July 2011, he scored twice for Atlético in a 2 – 1 Europa League win against Strømsgodset IF.

François Brisson ’ s men were eliminated by Arsenal, but they had before beaten Kaiserslautern ( 4 – 1 win in Germany ), Atlético Madrid and the Celta Vigo.

After helping them win promotion to the Primera División, in July 2007 he moved to Argentina to play for newly promoted Atlético Tigre in the Primera División Argentina.

His third league goal came in a 2 – 0 away win against Atlético Madrid, where Santa Cruz had been substituted onto the field for Beñat Etxebarria in the 72nd minute and scored his side's second goal in the 90th minute on 18 December.

Cruz Azul went on to win the final against Atlético Español.

Rene Higuita played the majority of his club career with Colombian side Atlético Nacional where he helped the team win the Colombian League on numerous occasions as well as the Copa Libertadores and Copa Interamericana, both in 1989.

On 12 February 2011, he netted another brace, helping Valencia come from behind at Atlético Madrid to win it 2 – 1, eventually finishing third and qualify to the Champions League.

The defender helped Atlético Nacional win the national league title in 1999, and also played for Atlético Bucaramanga, Real Cartagena, Atlético Junior, and Deportivo Pereira.

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