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| Full name | Corporación Popular Deportiva Junior | ||
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| Nickname(s) | Los Tiburones (The Sharks) | ||
| Founded | 1924 | ||
| Ground | Estadio Metropolitano Barranquilla | ||
| Capacity | 58,000 | ||
| Chairman | Antonio Char | ||
| Manager | Carlos Valderrama | ||
| League | Fútbol Profesional Colombiano | ||
| 2007 Apertura | 11 | ||
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Atlético Junior, also known as Corporación Deportiva Popular Junior, is a Colombian football team based in Barranquilla. The club was founded in 1924 Known as "Los Tiburones" (The Sharks), they have won the Colombian championship five times, the last one being in 2004, when they beat in a two-legged game their arch-rivals Atlético Nacional from Medellín.
The pride of Colombia's Caribbean coast, it had a golden age in the mid-90's, when under the conduction of Carlos "El Pibe" Valderrama, it won two of its championsips, in 1993 and 1995. Thereafter, the club owners focused on creating talent from within, and following years of up and downs, the club became once again national champions in December 2004, after scoring in the last minute and beating Nacional in penalty kicks. The star of that season was the Argentinian Omar Sebastian Perez, who earned the love and respect of the whole city not only for his great technique and high quality of play, but for the way he melted with the rest of the team.
They have participated several times in Conmebol's Copa Libertadores de América, a kind of Champion's League for South America, where they ended up in 3rd place In 1994. One penalty kick away from reaching the final, they ended up losing against Vélez Sarsfield, who would then become the tournament's ultimate champion.
Junior's home stadium is called the Estadio Metropolitano or Roberto Meléndez Stadium, which is also home to the Colombian national football team
Current squad
- As of 5 February 2007
Note: Flags indicate national team as defined under FIFA eligibility rules. Players may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality.
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Team Honors
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International
Atlético Junior also reached the semifinals stage in the 1994 Copa Libertadores de América, and was runner-up on 5 Mustang Cups (1948, 1970, 1983, 2000, 2003-I).
