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:
Sergio Livingstone, "El Sapo", The Toad, was until the modern era perhaps the greatest of South American goalkeepers. Not particularly tall at just under six-feet, but agile he was given his nickname because of his crouching stance in goal. But he was more than just a player. On retirement he would become his country's foremost football commentator and pundit on radio and then television.
Born in 1920 he was the younger son of Juan Livingstone, John Livingstone, himself the son of a wandering Scot, also John, who arrived in Chile and married and died there. Juan Livingstone had himself been a footballing pioneer in the Chilean capital, Santiago, as a player, a referee and journalist and it was in Santiago too that Sergio came into the World.
Where exactly he played his first football is lost in time but he clearly showed early promise. At fifteen he would join league-club, Union Espanola, and in 1938 at eighteen make his senior début as an amateur for Universidad Catolica, his father's old university, in the year before it also joined the league. And there at Catolica he clearly impressed at club level and internationally. He won his first cap in 1941 then in 1943 played in Argentina for a year. That season he was between the posts for all thirty games for the Buenos Aires team, Racing Club de Avellaneda, which finished safely mid-table, before returning on his marriage in 1944 to Chile, once more to Universidad Catolica.
He would stay with the university club essentially until retirement in 1959. There was a loan-period at Colo-Colo still in Santiago, still in the First Division, in 1957, the year in which Catolica was briefly relegated but otherwise his team normally finished mid-table with two exceptions. In 1949 and 1954 the Universitad would top the national league.
It would also be in 1954 that Sergio would play his last game for his country. His father would live to see it. He would die in 1955. It was Sergio's fifty-second cap, including six South American Championships and the
1950 World Cup in Brazil. Its final would see Uruguay defeat the hosts in Rio. Chile, however, was in the same group, from which Spain had qualified with three wins but England failing to do so. It, having beaten Chile in the first group game, would in the second extraordinarily lose to the USA, the team that in its last game would give Chile its only win of three, then critically also lose to Spain by a single goal. Livingstone was Chile's 'keeper and captain throughout.
At the end of his playing career Sergio Livingstone would like his father became a newspaper journalist. Then with the coming of television he became a regular with Chile's state broadcaster, TVN, almost to his death. That was in 2012 at the age of ninety-two a national figure in his South American homeland but also the last visible link between his country's football today and the Scots passion for the game that had seen its arrival first in
Valparaiso and then in
Santiago one hundred and twenty years earlier.