Club Nacional de Football
Description
Club Nacional de Football is a traditional Uruguayan sports club, best known for its football team, based in Montevideo and founded in May 14, 1899. It is the result of an association between the Uruguay Athletic and Montevideo Football Club. Nacional plays in the Uruguayan First Division.
Nacional engages in several sports, but football is by far the most important, a sport in which it has won worldwide recognition. Nacional is a three-time World Champion.
Nacional is the first team in Uruguay and Latin America formed only by natives.