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Club Atletico de Madrid is easily the fourth biggest club in Spanish football. Los Colchoneros, "the mattress makers -famously called so because of the resemblance of their red and blue color strips to mattresses in the country- are 10 times La Liga champions and have amassed 34 trophies in their 120 year history". They are only behind Real Madrid, Barcelona and Atletico Bilbao in that regard. One of the notable makers of any football club is style and the Colchoneros need no introduction in that regard. In the past 11 years under Diego Simeone we have seen the most elite of sporting projects marked by a distinctive defensive play. In the decade before Simeone became manager of Atletico, the Colchoneros could only boast of a Europa league win and a UEFA Super Cup win which all came under Quique Sanchez Flores in 2009. In that period they placed 11th twice and 7th three times managing narrow top 4 entries only twice. Not very successful right? In the previous years the club ha

The African cup is a competition with it's history dating back to 1957. The competition is hosted every two years and it is quite notably hosted in January because of the continent's climatic conditions. In every single competition there are interesting   dynamics; nations with history and nations in form. My wish as a writer is to exploit the dynamics of the African continent with you. The grand masters of most competition like to establish themselves in the early stages of the competition and in the AFCON it isn't any different.The first edition of this tournament was claimed by the Pharoahs  of Egypt in the South Saharan parts of Sudan, the Egyptians would continue to become record winners in the competition winning it 7 times with a show of brute force and power in every single conquer or dominance if you may. The pharos are the only side to have won the competition 3 times in a row;2006,2008 and in 2010 making them out rightly the most successful footballing nation o