http://atlas.theoffside.com News from FC Atlas Primera División de México football team Thu, 03 Jul 2008 00:23:19 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Atlas has released a schedule of their pre-season opponents. Atlas will play on Omaha from Kansas, then face the MLS Kansas Wizards. After the short US tour Atlas will play Libertad de Paraguay and finally Segunda de Cihuatlán which is a Mexican team. Their schedule certainly seems well-rounded, with ... http://atlas.theoffside.com/team-news/pre-season-schedule.html We now have a new midfielder to go with the new forward. Dario Botinelli will join Atlas from U. Católica de Chile. I guess if Vargas was hired to replace Marioni, Botinelli was hired to replace Medina who left to America. Again, all these one for one acquisitions seem to ... http://atlas.theoffside.com/team-news/new-midfielder.html Oh that's right, from time to time teams also buy players. Well apparently Atlas just realized this and has added striker Gonzalo Vargas. He was officially presented to the club yesterday and comes from FC Sochaux. The Uruguayan with the nickname of "El Turbo" will be looking to replace Marioni ... http://atlas.theoffside.com/team-news/new-players.html This is getting ridiculous, another great Atlas player leaving the club. This time it's Medina author of the Olympic goal during the domestic tournament. Medina has been with Atlas since Apertura 2003 and has been sold to Club América. Medina was released after he had expressed his desire to ... http://atlas.theoffside.com/team-news/medina-leaving-atlas.html According to IFFHS, the International Federation of Football History & Statistics, Atlas is ranked 61st amongst club teams in the world! Atlas is the second highest ranked Mexican team, Club America at 34 being the first. What is so great is that Atlas is ranked higher than their city rivals ... http://atlas.theoffside.com/team-news/were-61-were-61.html * Joaquín Daniel Andrade Arroyo, Daniel Osorno Calvillo, Juan Ignacio González Ibarra have been added to the transfer list. Arroyo was a star player with the Primera Division A team, Academicos, so his addition to the list is a bit of a surprise, but then again a couple of the ... http://atlas.theoffside.com/team-news/three-more-names-added-to-transfer-list.html Meet Adaluz Vázquez Martínez winner of the 2008 "Belleza Rojinegra" contest. There was a tie between the winner and to decide a winner, there was an OT Q&A session, "What is your vision regarding Atlas' image for next season?" I'm thinking the same thing, I hope they studied. Adaluz did ... http://atlas.theoffside.com/team-news/meet-miss-atlas.html Atlas recently published their final transfer list. Not on the list are Marioni, Mario Rodriguez, Roberto Vargas, and forward Lucas Ramón Barrios. Marioni has already been sold, Rodriguez and Vargas had already been announced as transfers and just recently Atlas has announced that forward Lucas Barrios will be sold to Colo ... http://atlas.theoffside.com/team-news/atlas-transfer-list.html It's official, Marioni has sold his soul to the devil, I mean Pachuca. The deal was announced yesterday and although the full terms haven't been outlined, Atlas is expecting to receive either one or more players or some of the money that Atlas paid Boca Juniors to get Marioni in the ... http://atlas.theoffside.com/team-news/marioni-going-to-pachuca.html President Fernando Acosta said that the team is sad at not being able to reach an agreement with forward Bruno Marioni. Acosta said that for their part the team offered a 33% increase in pay, but that unfortunately it didn't match the offers that Marioni has received from elsewhere. This ... http://atlas.theoffside.com/team-news/marioni-out-of-atlas.html