Yale Atlético Clube, usually called Yale, was one of the first sports club in Belo Horizonte, Minas Gerais, Brazil. It was founded in 1910, by Italian immigrants [1], but is no longer in existence. It supplied the city with many different sport teams, one of them was football. They played in the Campeonato de Belo Horizonte (Belo Horizonte Championship) until 1925, which is now the Campeonato Mineiro, that's the year it gave up football. Yale eventually split and part of it became the Palestra Itália of Minas, a team which was created to compete with many of the bigger teams in Belo Horizonte like America, Atlético, and Yale itself. Yale separation into the Palestra caused many of Yales footballers to join the Palestra a team which later became Cruzeiro, a team that now plays in the Campeonato Brasileiro Série A, Brazil's premier football league. In conclusion it can be said that the team that was once Yale became the Cruzeiro of today.
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- ^ (Portuguese) Minas Gerais football history at Abacaxi Atômico
