Atlas Trail
One Family, Five Codes: Storied Clubs Across Football's Many Games
Football is not one sport but several. Association football, the two rugby codes, American football and Australian rules all trace back to a shared nineteenth century family of running and kicking games before growing into separate sports, each with its own storied clubs and national sides. This trail visits ten of team-club's most decorated names, one for nearly every major code the section already covers, and one attested fact at each stop.
Stop 1 of 10.
Teams and Clubs
Manchester United began life in 1878 as Newton Heath LYR Football Club, the works team of a railway company, before adopting its current name in 1902.
Stop 2 of 10.
Teams and Clubs
Real Madrid was founded in 1902 and has won more European Cup and UEFA Champions League titles than any other club in the competition's history.
Stop 3 of 10.
Teams and Clubs
Celtic was founded in Glasgow in 1887 by the Irish Marist Brother Walfrid specifically to raise funds for poor communities in the city's East End.
Stop 4 of 10.
Teams and Clubs
Boca Juniors was founded in 1905 in the La Boca neighborhood of Buenos Aires by a group of young Italian immigrants.
Stop 5 of 10.
Teams and Clubs
Al Ahly was founded in Cairo in 1907 as a nationalist sporting and social club during the period of British occupation of Egypt.
Stop 6 of 10.
Teams and Clubs
Wigan's rugby league history traces back to 1872, though the club took its current Warriors name only in 1997, when the sport reorganized around Super League.
Stop 7 of 10.
Teams and Clubs
The All Blacks have performed the ceremonial Maori haka, most often Ka Mate, before international matches since a tradition begun on the team's earliest overseas tours in the early twentieth century.
Stop 8 of 10.
Teams and Clubs
Founded in 1919, the Green Bay Packers are the oldest continuously operating franchise in NFL history never to have relocated, and the league's only team structured as a non-profit corporation.
Stop 9 of 10.
Teams and Clubs
Under quarterback Patrick Mahomes and coach Andy Reid, the Chiefs won multiple Super Bowl championships in the early 2020s, including consecutive titles.
Stop 10 of 10.
Teams and Clubs
Collingwood plays a large share of its home matches at the Melbourne Cricket Ground, drawing some of the largest crowds in the Australian Football League.
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