And when you are done looking at this site for the Scots input on football world-wide, here are two more.
For those who literally want to trace on the ground the local development of Scots and Scottish football in our own and other countries there is the newly available and ever-expanding site of:
The Scots Football Historians' Group
And on Scottish sports history in general but inevitably including fitba', see Andy Mitchell's inestimable:
Egypt
Just as in India football came to Egypt with the British army and early. Games were already being played in the 1880s between teams of soldiers against other soldiers and also locals. The first club in the country, indeed in the Middle East, to have a football team was founded in 1903. The club to win this season's Egyptian Premier League of nineteen teams, nine in Cairo, the Al Ahly or National Sporting Club was formed in 1907. Student games took place from 1914. The country's first national team took part in the Olympic Games in Belgium in 1920. It's football association was born the following year and two years after that it joined FIFA. Then there was a period of hiatus until the 1950s and the first African Cup of Nations since when there was steady growth in the game in terms of players and crowds and on the field quite remarkable progression in the last two decades.
