The Clube Atlético Mineiro Youth Squads (Brazilian Portuguese: Categorias de Base) are the youth academy of Clube Atlético Mineiro, a Brazilian football club based in Belo Horizonte. The youth sector is composed of various squads divided by age groups. All the youth teams currently train at the club's main training ground, Cidade do Galo, located in the municipality of Vespasiano. The U-20 squad currently plays in the Campeonato Brasileiro Sub-20, the Copa do Brasil Sub-20 and the Copa São Paulo de Futebol Júnior. Atlético Mineiro's Youth Squads of all categories have won trophies at national and international level.

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Atlético Mineiro Youth Squads

Full name	Clube Atlético Mineiro
Nickname(s)	Galinho ("Little Rooster")
Ground	Cidade do Galo
President	Sérgio Coelho
Head Coach	Marcos Valadares (U-20) Lucas Batista (U-17) Filipe Mattos (U-15) Rodolfo Paz (U-14)
League	Campeonato Brasileiro Sub-20 (U-20)
2020	Champions
Website	Club website
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Some of the senior members of the U20 team also eventually play for Atlético Mineiro's first squad. As of June 2021, the current head coach of the U-20 squad (Júnior) Marcos Valadares. Lucas Batista coaches the U-17 (Juvenil) squad, the Infantil category (U-15) is coached by Filipe Mattos and the U-14 is coached by Rodolfo Paz. Erasmo Damiani oversees the overall youth development setup at the club as Director.

Atlético Mineiro's youth sector operates in Cidade do Galo, the main training facility for the club. It has a hotel able to host 90 youths, in 19 quadruple apartments and 12 triple ones. The youth facilities include a gym, a restaurant, a pedagogy room, a library, a gaming room, an auditorium with a 150 capacity, an Internet café, and departments for medicine, dentistry and physiotherapy. The youths are able to live in the facility and receive medical and educational assistance from the club.^[1][2]

The club's main youth squad is the U-20, called Júnior, which includes athletes aging 17 to 20.^[3] The Juvenil category is the U-17 squad.^[4] Players with 15 years old and less are categorised under the Infantil.^[5]

List of former Clube Atlético Mineiro youth squads graduates who have played matches at full international level for the Brazil national team.

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Player	Year joined club	Years played for first team	National team	Years played for national team
Afonso Alves	2000	2001–2002	Brazil	2007
Bernard	2006	2010–2013	Brazil	2012–2014
Bremer	2017	2017–2018	Brazil	2022–
Cláudio Caçapa	1996	1997–2001	Brazil	2000–2001
Dedê	1995	1996–1998	Brazil	2004
Diego Alves	2004	2005–2007	Brazil	2011–2017
Edivaldo	1981	1982, 1984–1987	Brazil	1986–1989
Jemerson	2010	2012–2015, 2022–2024	Brazil	2017
João Leite	1970	1976–1988, 1991–1992	Brazil	1980–1981
Kléber	2007	2009	Brazil	2011
Leandro Castán	2003	2005–2007	Brazil	2012–2013
Lincoln	1989	1997–2001	Brazil	1999
Mancini	1997	1999–2002, 2011–2013	Brazil	2004–2008
Marcelo Oliveira	1969	1972–1984	Brazil	1975–1977
Marcos Rocha	2005	2009, 2012–2017	Brazil	2013
Moacir	1987	1988–1992, 1996	Brazil	1990–1991
Paulo Isidoro	1969	1975–1979, 1985–1987	Brazil	1977–1983
Reinaldo	1971	1973–1985	Brazil	1975–1985
Sávio	2018	2020–2022	Brazil	2024–
Sérgio Araújo	1975	1980–1988	Brazil	1987
Toninho Cerezo	1971	1972–1983, 1997	Brazil	1977–1985
Vantuir	1968	1969–1978	Brazil	1972–1975

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