MacAllister at Brighton

[TQ3]

2 Scots introduced football to Brazil, but neither were connected to each other.
One was in the upper classes, possibly an Embassy worker?iirc , and had all the rich folk playing it, and the other was a lad from Paisley who worked in a textile factory, and brought the offical rules and a ball back from a visit home.

 

[bluetonic]

Didn't Argentina once have a player called John Brown? Or at least Brown was the surname?

Jose Louise Arthur Brown ( or something like that) , Mexico 86 WC

 

[Ataturk]

Costa Rica are another country who have random British names in their squads: Joel Campbell, Ian Smith, Rodney Wallace, Steven Bryce, Lester Morgan.

 

[bluetonic]

2 Scots introduced football to Brazil, but neither were connected to each other.
One was in the upper classes, possibly an Embassy worker?iirc , and had all the rich folk playing it, and the other was a lad from Paisley who worked in a textile factory, and brought the offical rules and a ball back from a visit home.

Miller was one of the names iirc

 

[Rangers daft]

Can't be many Argies cutting about with a ginger beard

Messi cut about with 1 for long enough

 

[Wee Dick's Hairnet]

Can you guess which one is his da?

Didnt realise Archie Gemmill was his Da!

 

[Doctor Robert]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/José_Luis_Brown

Jose Spanish for John eh?

Poor guy is dead... 62 with dementia

Jose is Joseph

Juan is John.

 

[cskasofia]

When Roy Maakay first started to become noticed, there was talk he was descended from the MacKay clan.

Also what about Denzel Dumfries who plays for Inter Milan?

 

[Oleg_McNoleg]

That’s fascinating. I once heard in a quiz that the largest concentration of Welsh people outside of Wales itself is in Argentina. I had no idea so many Scots settled there too and that we played such an integral role in the birth of Argentine football.

My Cornish wife assured me Cornish tin miners went too. Brought pasties with them, becoming empanadas.

 

[Souness04/86]

I thought he was really decent against Chelsea

 

[Blaew]

Can you guess which one is his da?

Looks like the lovechild of Billy Bremner and Archie Gemmill.

 

[carlosapicella]

It is weird how he spells it with a space between the Mac and Allister. It makes it look like his middle name is Mac and surname is Allister.

Not really mac in scottish as van in Dutch means son of!what's in a name?

 

[Duranman]

Think Argentina, unlike Brazil, is pretty much white. Not many mestizos or black people. Not sure why that is.

Seem to be very undiluted European.

 

[senefelder]

Think Argentina, unlike Brazil, is pretty much white. Not many mestizos or black people. Not sure why that is.

Seem to be very undiluted European.

Obviously Spanish is the national language, but there is also a large Italian influence.