Atlántida Sport Club

The Atlantida Sports Club is a football club based in Obrero, a neighborhood of Asuncion, capital of Paraguay. In the early years of the club three times Vice Champion and two -time champion of an alternative league was. Since the second half of the 1950s wash Atlantida, Spanish for Atlantis, between second and third league. Atlantida plays its home games at the Estadio Flaviano Díaz, that sums up 1000 spectators.

The club was founded on December 23, 1906, which is also called El Oceánico and El Negriazul, one of the oldest football clubs in the country and already took part in the second playout of the national championship in 1907. 1910 Atlantida runner-up, and only lost in a decision made ​​necessary match against Club Libertad 1-2. 1911 Atlantida was again runner-up.

1912 joined the club alongside other clubs such as Libertad of jobs created in the previous alternative league Centenario, which from 1916 under the name Asociación Paraguaya de Fútbol changed its name (not to be confused with the later name of the National Association ), whose championship Atlantida in 1915 and at their playout last won in 1917.

In 1918 the club played again in the regular premier league, the league Paraguaya de Football, but there came to relegation in 1925 do not have means places beyond. After two years of resurgence occurred. After the Chaco War Atlantida one of the founders of the professional gaming operation in Paraguay in 1936 and runner-up. In the following season as well as 1940 and 1944, the club was the last that remained, however, of no consequence, because in those years neither up nor held down. A renewed completion in last place in 1950 led but then the second relegation in club history. However, it was followed by the immediate re- ascent.

But after re- relegation in 1954 the club did not succeed in re- return, rather Atlantida castled since then between the second and third league.

Known player

From the ranks of Atlantida sprang among others, the striker César López Fretes, the mid-1940s, two -time champion has been with the club Olimpia, and Eulogio Martínez, one of the greatest strikers in the Paraguayan football history, with Club Libertad in 1955 part of the "Team of the century ', and until the 1960s with the FC Barcelona enjoyed great success. In the 2010 World Cup in South Africa where the national football team of Paraguay gave their most successful idea took Víctor Cáceres and Paulo Cesar Da Silva took two players that emerged from the youth of Atlantida part.