Edited sentence: Again this team of friends became surprise champion in its first participation in an official competition.At that moment everything changed; that shared passion gave rise to a Club that would make a difference in Dominican football.Atlético Pantoja became the first association football club from the Dominican Republic with 10,000 followers on Facebook, their most popular social media page.But, the group relied on the quality and experience of each one of its members and embarked on a new challenge.Club Atlético Pantoja was born from the a group of friends, mostly Argentinian immigrants, led by Eduardo Macchiavello.From then a technical body was hired, in addition to adding young players as reinforcements.In 2001 they were invited to play a veteran tournament organized by the Dominican Football Federation.It started in 2000, when these friends met to play football at the ROWE Laboratory, located in the popular neighborhood of Pantoja in the city of Santo Domingo.Little by little, this group became larger, adding Dominican friends and other nationalities.That idea came true months later.The fusion of youth and experience led the Club to reach the maximum laureate in Dominican football: the Primera División championship.The newly promoted Pantoja again became champion of the Second Division league, something a team emerged from the pastime of some friends and made up mostly by veterans.This championship allowed them to ascend to Second Division, which undoubtedly involved a much greater challenge.This group of friends managed to become the champion of the tournament of veterans, and in celebration of the title was born the idea and the challenge to participate in the Third Dominican Division.This group would propose to reach another milestone, the title of First Division.This is how the Deportivo Pantoja Fútbol Club is born.This team had achieved the feat of "champion" three consecutive times, managing to arrive to the maximum category of soccer of the Dominican Republic, the First Division.Undoubtedly, that group of friends never imagined that they were founding a Club that in a very short time would become a symbol of good football, positioning itself as one of the most emblematic and winning clubs of the Dominican Republic.With a marathon of sporting feats began a story full of achievements and triumphs that has been maintained since that first night of a "picadito de fútbol" to this day