Cruzeiro Esporte Clube is a Brazilian professional football club, based in Belo Horizonte, Minas Gerais. Although competing in a number of different sports, Cruzeiro is mostly known for its association football team. It plays in the Campeonato Brasileiro Série A, the top tier of the Brazilian football league system, as well as in the Campeonato Mineiro, the state of Minas Gerais's premier state league.
Clube Atlético Mineiro, commonly known as Atlético Mineiro and colloquially as Galo, is a professional football club of Belo Horizonte, the capital city of the Brazilian state of Minas Gerais. The team competes in the Campeonato Brasileiro Série A, the first level of Brazilian football, as well as in the Campeonato Mineiro, the top tier state league of Minas Gerais.
Diego Tardelli Martins, known as Diego Tardelli, is a Brazilian former professional footballer who played as a forward. He was considered a dynamic player due to his speed on attack and individual skills. Tardelli is not his last name, but his second name: it was chosen by his father after his footballing idol, Italian World Cup winner Marco Tardelli.
Frederico Chaves Guedes, also known as Fred, is a Brazilian former professional footballer who played as a striker.
Ricardo Rogério de Brito, better known by his nickname Alemão, is a former Brazilian professional footballer who played as a defensive midfielder. His nickname means German in the Portuguese language. A tenacious and physical yet technically gifted player, Alemão was a strong, consistent, hard-working, and versatile midfielder, who excelled in a holding role as either a defensive midfielder or deep-lying playmaker, due to his tactical intelligence, energy, tackling, and his ability to read the game, as well as his capacity to start attacking plays after winning back possession.
Diego de Souza Andrade is a Brazilian former professional footballer who played as a forward for Vasco da Gama, Grêmio, Sport Recife, and many other clubs.
Givanildo Vieira de Sousa, mononymously known as Hulk, is a Brazilian professional footballer who plays as a forward for Atlético Mineiro.
Victor Leandro Bagy, known as Victor, is a Brazilian former professional footballer who played as a goalkeeper.
Paulo Roberto de Freitas, best known as Bebeto, was a Brazilian volleyball coach and football manager. He was the president of Botafogo FR football club.
Elias Mendes Trindade, known simply as Elias, is a Brazilian former professional footballer who played as a central midfielder.
Paulino Angelino de Souza, known as just Ângelo, was a Brazilian footballer who played in the 1972 Olympic Games and was part of Brazil’s squad for the 1975 Copa América.
Nathan Allan de Souza, simply known as Nathan, is a Brazilian footballer who plays for Grêmio. Mainly an attacking midfielder, he has also been deployed throughout his career in a central midfield role, as well as a winger and a second striker.
The Atlético Mineiro–Flamengo rivalry is a high-profile inter-state rivalry between Brazilian professional football clubs Atlético Mineiro and Flamengo. The clubs first played against each other in 1929, but until regular competitions were introduced in Brazilian football in 1959, the encounters were played at friendly level, since they come from different states: Flamengo is from Rio de Janeiro, while Atlético Mineiro hails from Minas Gerais. The rivalry developed in the 1980s from numerous controversial encounters between the two clubs in that decade's Campeonato Brasileiro and Copa Libertadores editions. It remained through the following years, and is considered the biggest interstate rivalry in Brazilian football.
Clube Atlético Mineiro, also known simply as Atlético Mineiro or Atlético, is a club from Belo Horizonte, Minas Gerais, Brazil. The club's history starts in its founding, in 1908, up to present day. The team was founded on 25 March 25, 1908 by twenty-two students from Belo Horizonte, led by Margival Mendes Leal and Mário Toledo.
The 1950 Atlético Mineiro European tour was an episode in the history of Clube Atlético Mineiro, an association football club based in Belo Horizonte, Brazil, in which it played a series of friendly football matches against clubs in Europe, becoming the first club of Minas Gerais and also the first Brazilian at professional level to compete in that continent.
Raquel Fernandes dos Santos, commonly known as Raquel, is a Brazilian footballer who plays as a forward for Sporting CP in the Portuguese Campeonato Nacional and the Brazil national team. She participated in the 2015 and 2019 FIFA Women's World Cup.
Paulo Silas do Prado Pereira, also known as Paulo Silas, Silas Pereira or simply Silas, is a Brazilian football pundit, coach, and former professional player.
The involvement of Clube Atlético Mineiro in international club football began in 1972, the year of its first appearance in an official competition at that level. Since then, the Brazilian club, based in Belo Horizonte, Minas Gerais, has participated in 31 continental and one intercontinental tournament. Atlético Mineiro has won four official titles at the international level: the Copa Libertadores in 2013; the inaugural edition of the Copa CONMEBOL in 1992, and again in 1997; and the Recopa Sudamericana in 2014. In addition, the club finished as runner-up of the Copa CONMEBOL in 1995, the Copa de Oro in 1993, and the Copa Master de CONMEBOL in 1996.
Igor Silveira Gomes is a Brazilian professional footballer who plays as a midfielder for Atlético Mineiro.
Hamilton Lima e Silva, simply known as Hamilton, is a Brazilian former professional footballer who played as a forward.
