Latin American Trails,

The first league outwith the British Isles was in Argentina in Buenos Aires in 1891. Its Secretary was the Scot, Alex Lamont. But it neither included the first Argentine club, nor was the first implantation of the game on the continent. The former was Rosario Central. It was founded in 1889 in the country's second city and had as its first President Colin Bain Calder, also a Scot. And the latter took place in Montevideo in Uruguay, was in 1885 and by William Leslie Poole, the English-born son of a Scottish doctor.   

And next to succumb to the contagion would be Chile, also from 1889 with its football association founded in 1895 in the port city Valparaiso by four Scots with the game spreading to Santiago by the end of the decade. And in the meantime it had reached Brazil, at three separate points, in both the city and the state of Sao Paulo and in Bangu by Rio de Janeiro, brought by two more Scots and the Brazilian-born son of one. And the pattern would be repeated elsewhere. First could come Costa Rica in 1899, the Piries and others, then in 1902-3 in both Mexico with Duncan McComish and the Ballantynes of Venezuela and even to the Brazilian Amazon just before The Great War with the Forsyth Trophy.