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The success of Brazilian football made many Argentine teams hire Brazilian coaches in the 60s. Vicente Feola coached Boca Juniors in 1961, Osvaldo Brandão coached Club Atlético Independiente in 1961 and 1967, winning the 1967 National Championship, and Tim coached Boca Juniors to the 1968 National Championship. [64] [65] [66]
Charles Miller in 1940. When he returned to Brazil in 1894, Miller brought two footballs and a set of Hampshire FA rules in his suitcase. [5] Miller was instrumental in setting up the football team of the São Paulo Athletic Club (SPAC) and the Liga Paulista, the first football league in Brazil.
Football is the most popular sport in Brazil and a prominent part of the country's national identity. The Brazil national football team has won the FIFA World Cup five times, the most of any team, in 1958, 1962, 1970, 1994 and 2002. [5]
Pelé, the Brazilian football legend, credits Donohoe with introducing football to Brazil in a 2016 interview with a Scottish newspaper. [44] Donohoe only played four matches for Bangu A.C. [16] because he was forty-one years old when the club was founded. He, most likely, played for football teams in/around Busby before he went to Brazil.
Oscar Alfredo Sebastião Cox (20 January 1880 – 6 October 1931) was an English-Brazilian sportsman who introduced football to the city of Rio de Janeiro and founded Fluminense, one of Brazil's most traditional and popular football clubs.
Mário Ferraz de Campos' advertisement in Diário de Santos, referring to the creation of a new football club in Brazil. [1]Football was introduced to Brazil by a Scottish expatriate named Thomas Donohue, [2] with the first football match played in Brazil in April 1894, played on a pitch marked out by Donohue next to his workplace in Bangu. [2]
Anglo-Brazilian Charles Miller introduced Brazil to football association rules to Brazil in 1894 upon his return from England, where he attended college and discovered the sport, and it soon became popular in the country. In 1902 Miller helped to organize the Liga Paulista de Foot-Ball (current Campeonato Paulista), Brazil's first football league.
Football was first introduced to South America in 1867, in Argentina. Brazil, to which the Briton Charles Miller brought football in 1894, is considered the second South American country in which football made an appearance. [1] Miller was born in São Paulo of a Brazilian mother who belonged to the elite of that city's population. [13]