Y2022 is coming, a year with great illusions for world football and for Bridgestone, the 2022 Bridgestone League is now a reality, with seven great teams from Latin America: Pumas, Atlas (Mexico), Deportivo Independiente Medelln (Colombia), Club 9 de Octubre (Ecuador), Atltico San Carlos (Costa Rica), Antigua FC (Guatemala) and Club Deportivo del Este (Panama).
Pumas and Atlas (Mexico)
Bridgestone is a proud sponsor of the Pumas de la UNAM and the Atlas from Guadalajara, current Mexican soccer champion. Just a few days ago, the Rojinegros broke the curse of 70 years without a title, bringing great joy to their thousands of fans.
The Apertura 2021 was magical for Atlas, who obtained his second star in Liga MX, always backed by Bridgestone, The world’s leading tire and rubber company, drawing on its experience to provide solutions for safe and sustainable mobility.
The alliance that Bridgestone made this year with Los Rojinegros I sought to highlight shared values, such as the high performance and maximum performance in their products and services, which took the Zorros to the top of Mexican soccer.
During the Opening 2021, the tapato set was one of the pleasant surprises by always staying within the classification positions, managing to settle in the Liguilla directly, ranking second overall. In the Fiesta Grande, they faced Monterrey, a strong team in all its lines and before which, the Atlas took the breed to advance to the semifinals after 17 years.
In the anteroom for the title they beat Pumas, with a great exhibition at Ciudad Universitaria and then with some suffering at the Jalisco stadium, where the encouragement of the public was key to reaching the grand final.
After 22 years, the Academy played a final, this time the rival was the Len, a group accustomed to these instances and that would not make it easy for Atlas. The first leg match, played at La Fiera’s home, was a Authentic game in which the locals took the advantage by score of 3-2.
For him second leg, Atlas went all over the place to look for the goal to give him life and hope to fight for the title, which arrived at minute 55 thanks to Aldo Rocha, so the Jalisco Stadium exploded with joy and did not stop encouraging his team. Emotions ran high during the 90-minute regular time, where the Overall score remained level 3-3. In overtime the champion was not defined either, so the title was disputed in the fateful penalty shootout.
El Len began to shoot penalties, with the success of Elas Hernndez; The Atlas had a good reaction with the collection of Jess Angulo. In the second turn came the first failures on the part of both teams, Fernando Navarro and Aldo Rocha. The third and fourth rounds will also be successful for both clubs. The fifth charge was the decisive one, Camilo Vargas dressed as a hero to stop Luis Montes’s shot and leave in Julio Csar Furch the possibility of being champions … and so it happened! the Argentine forward did not fail from eleven steps and the Atlas became a deserved champion of Liga MX.
The road was not easy for the Rojinegros in recent years; However, with teamwork and effort they managed to position themselves in the foreground and attract major brands such as Bridgestone and continue to build strong projects.
Now the Diego Cocca’s pupils will seek to defend his crown at Clausura 2022 backed by a leading company like Bridgestone.
Bridgestone, proud sponsor of the Atlas, congratulates the brand new champion!
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