Frente Atletico ultras of Atletico de Madrid (Spain)

The Athletic Front is an ultra amateur group of the Club Atlético de Madrid founded with that name in 1982. It had around 2,500 members in 2014,2, making it the largest group of Spanish football.Its origin can be traced back to 1968, when the Fondo Sur boulder was created.The Frente Atlético was officially founded in 1982. Originally it was going to be called Brigata Rossibianca, but the club advised that a name be taken in Spanish and decided to adopt the "Frente Atlético", in reference to the falangista organization Frente de Juventudes, to which some of its members belonged.The club offered him financial and institutional help so that it could begin to function.In its early years it was characterized by being involved in various incidents and fights with other ultras groups.Members of Bastión - a section of the Athletic Front - were involved in the murder of Aitor Zabaleta, a follower of the Real Sociedad de Fútbol, ​​8 who died on December, 1998 as a result of a stab in the vicinity of the Vicente Calderón stadium.Ricardo Guerra, belonging to the group, was sentenced to 17 years in prison for the death of the Donostiarra fan. They have been classified in the media as an organization of the extreme right or as an organization directed by individuals related to the extreme right.13 A survey revealed the predominance in the political spectrum in which the members of the organization were placed. political preferences of the right and extreme right (15 and 19%, respectively) despite a certain transversality in the spectrum (with some members, 2%, positioning themselves on the extreme left) .In 2005, the Anti-Violence Commission proposed several sanctions against the rojiblanco club for the launching of flares, smoke cans, firecrackers and bottles, as well as insults uttered by a member of the Front to supporters of the Oporto Football Club and for the exhibition of a banner by another member of the Front that "incited xenophobia and racism" .The ultra group was directly involved in the field fight between ultra groups in the vicinity of the Vicente Calderón stadium that led to the murder on November 30, 2014 of Francisco Javier Romero Taboada, aka Jimmy, member of the "soft" section of the group ultra Deportivo de la Coruña Riazor Blues, victim of a beating and ended up thrown into the river Manzanares.On December 2, 2014 Atletico Madrid ejected some radicals involved in the Vicente Calderón Athletic Front due to the incident.