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:
There are few people who could say that they had been instrumental in bringing not just one sport to a country but two. But George Easton can make that claim. He had arrived in Finland, then part of Russia, in 1903 aged not quite twenty. His business was timber and first he lived in Jakobstad on the country's Swedish-speaking, north-west coast. Three years later he was living in Kokkola just twenty miles to the north. In 1908 he was in Helsinki but finally would settle in Viipuri, the city of Vyborg, Finland's then most eastern and second largest city, eighty miles north of St. Petersburg and now, since being ceded at the end of the Second World war, just across the border and in Russia.
By then he was a thousand miles from home, for George Wylie Easton had been born in 1883 in Bo'ness, the son of a local shipbroker. At a teenager he had shown himself to be talented athlete, a record-breaking sprinter. He was also an enthusiastic footballer and on arrival in his new home he had introduced the game to both Jakobstad and Kokkola and on passing through the capital he had joined the Unitas Club and with it in 1908 would win the first Finnish championship. Unitas had been founded three years earlier but was not the oldest club. That is Helsingin Ponnistus founded as a gymnastics' club in 1887, but with its football section formed only in 1903. However, it was Unitas that had played the first public, indeed international football match in the country in 1906 against St. Petersburg Amateur-Sportverein and had that same year organised a first, country-wide Cup competition, the forerunner of the Championship to come.
It must have been shortly after the Unitas victory that Easton travelled eastwards. He had married by then, to Christina Ballantine, back in Bo'ness. Indeed in 1909 he was already in Vyborg and turning his sporting attention elsewhere. He acquired curling stones and equipment from St. Petersburg, bringing them across the then border and a year later it was local sports club, Reipas, at home that played the country's first official rink against Moscow's English Curling Club. By then Reipas's football section was already in place. In the same year as Unitas's win it had lost in the other semi-final and would do so again the following season. Easton would be first a player/trainer and then its coach until the prospect of the Second World War caused him to leave. In the interim on a sporting level the Reipas club would first make the final in 1910 and several more after that, never winning the title, however, whilst on a personal level his first child, a daughter would be born still in Viborg in 1910, followed by two sons before the outbreak of the Great War and, as a result, Finnish Independence in 1917. Britain recognised it in 1919.
A third son would be born to George and Christina still in Finland in 1921. In fact Easton would only return to Britain in 1939, remaining until his death in 1966 in Surbiton in Surrey. Meanwhile both Finnish curling and football had gone from strength to strength and continue to do so. The national football team had played its first game, against Sweden, in 1911, whilst the country was still notionally part of Russia. In 1912 it had even finished fourth in the Olympic Games in Sweden. And, although, it has never qualified for a World Cup or European Championship, since 1990 it has had a successful, twelve team professional Premier League. In men's curling there has also been a championship, a league, from 1983. Its first World ranking was in 1988, it qualified for the first time in 2002 for the Olympics and took the silver medal in 2006 in Turin. There has been a women's championship since 1994.