Atalanta Bergamasca Calcio, commonly known as just Atalanta, Atalanta Bergamo or the abbreviation Atalanta BC, is an Italian football club based in Bergamo, Lombardy.

They are nicknamed the Nerazzurri and the orobici. Atalanta play in blue-and-black vertically striped shirts, black shorts and black socks.

The club stadium is the 26,638 seater Atleti Azzurri d'Italia. In Italy, Atalanta is sometimes called Regina delle provinciali (queen of the provincial clubs) to mark the fact that the club is historically one of the best among non-metropolitan ones.

In 2010-11, the club gained promotion from Serie B to Serie A.Captain Doni is involved with a match-fixing scandal.^{[citation needed]} and in August 2011, Atalanta was punished with 6 points of penalty in the 2011-2012 season, Doni has given a three-and-a-half-ban. Atalanta surprisinly reached the Cup Winners' Cup Semifinal in 1988, when it was still competing in Serie B. This is still the best ever performance by a non-first division club in a major UEFA competition (together with Cardiff City).

Stefano Colantuono (born October 23, 1962 in Rome) is an Italian football manager, currently in charge as head coach of Atalanta.

Colantuono, a centre back, started his playing career for Serie D side Velletri in 1981. In 1983 he moved to Ternana of Serie C1, then Arezzo of Serie B, and finally made his Serie A debut for Pisa. He played Serie A until 1990 for several teams. In 1991 he accepted to play in the national futsal league for BNL Roma, winning a scudetto. Following this experience, Colantuono played mostly at lower levels, especially Serie C2 and Serie D, and even Eccellenza for Sambenedettese in 1994–1995. After a long list of experiences in different Italian regions, Colantuono returned to play for Sambenedettese in November 2000, leading his team to an immediate promotion to Serie C2.

The 2001–2002 Serie C2 season for Sambenedettese was going to be very hard, with two coaches fired throughout the season. After the sack of third coach Enrico Nicolini, Colantuono, a player for the team, was appointed to manage Sambenedettese together with Gabriele Matricciani for the last nine matches. Surprisingly, Colantuono managed to win all these nine matches, leading his team to a fifth place, qualifying and successively even winning the promotion playoffs.

David Marcelo Pizarro Cortés (born 11 September 1979) is a Chilean football midfielder who currently plays for Manchester City on loan from Roma.

He played for the Chile national team up until 2005, for which he won the Bronze medal at 2000 Summer Olympics at Sydney. Pizarro is a central midfielder, who can operate in a holding position or an attacking position in the hole behind the strikers.

During Pizarro's stay in Italian football, he won one Serie A title (2005-06), three Coppa Italia titles and two Supercoppa Italiana titles. Pizarro's Italian nickname is "Pek", diminutive of "pequeño", meaning "small" in Spanish, because of his short height (1.70 meters).

Pizarro started his career as a midfielder with the Santiago Wanderers in Valparaíso, Chile.

Pizarro first played European football with Udinese in Serie A. From there, he was loaned to South American team Universidad de Chile where he debuted in the Copa Libertadores.

He played well with Udinese under the guidance of coach Luciano Spalletti.