Until modern times none had held the position so long and even then it is doubtful that any had had to oversee such change. But in a way of greater interest is in what he was called at home. Did his wife call him Hugo or Hugh, did he call her Agnes or Ines and did they speak Spanish or English? Ror they were both Argentinian but also Diasporan, she Irish, he Scots. In fact he was the last in a line of mainly Scots, native and Diasporan, from Alexander Watson Hutton through Colin Bain Calder, George Robb, Alex Lamont, the Leslies, John Anderson, the Browns and others, who over a period of thirty years had seen the introduction of football, Association football, to and its establishment in Argentina.

So, whilst Watson Hutton, father and son, are rightly lauded by the modern football establishment in Argentina,  who was this Hugh Wilson, who  gets hardly a mention, even though he was President of Argentine Football Association from 1909 to 1915, the last one of British origin to hold the position, and the one to see it out of ex-patriot, British control. Hugh Wilson, Hugo Wilson, had been born in Buenos Aires in 1973, the second son of Scots-born parents. His mother, a Ritchie, had arrived, aged two, on the banks of the River Plate in 1843 but had been born in High Gates by Kilmarnock and his father's birth was in 1845 and probably in Ayrshire too. The hesitancy is because, whilst he seems to have insisted on being known not just as Hugh Wilson also but Hugh McCrae Wilson, there is only one birth that year that fits. It is in Mauchline and he is illegitimate. His mother is definitely Jean McCrae. His father is recorded as Robert Wilson. It was not the best start in life and it appears to have got worse. Both his parents then seem to disappear and he brought up in what looks like straightened circumstances and by his grandmother with every incentive to emigrate at the earliest opportunity.

But back to Hugo Wilson Jnr. In 1895 he is recorded, his father having died in 1893,  as living in Buenos Aires  with his brother, Andrew, and a Ritchie, so probably a cousin. Furthermore, about the turn of the century by the time he was thirty he was married. He and his wife had their first of four children in 1903 and they had probably met through football. His bride's name had been Agnes or Ines Slamon. She was from a town outwith Buenos Aires, a mainly Irish town, Lobos, with in 1898 its football team playing in the Argentine League with an H. Wilson as one of its forwards.

However, the family clearly settled back in Buenos Aires and he and it can be seen travelling back and forth to Britain on several occasions, he recorded as a a businessman, a merchant, a manufacturer and finally perhaps a diplomat. And it was also during that time he was elected to the AFA presidency, achieving both affiliation to FIFA and a highly successful transfer of control of the organisation from previously English-speaking British- via Diasporan Scots- to non-British Spanish-speaking control in a way that was clearly successful but for which in today's Argentina he receives no recognition. Indeed, he seems to have lived out his life prosperously but without much respect even from his contemporaries, dying still in Buenos Aires in 1940 and buried in the British Cemetery not far from Alex Watson Hutton but strangely without any of the same appreciation.