In 1868 in Bathgate in West Lothian a Daniel Green married a Mary Gallacher.  He was twenty and a chemical worker, she eighteen and had worked in a mill since she was at most ten. Both stayed in Blackburn, where she had been born the daughter of a Donegal father and a local mother. He had been born in Co. Londonderry in Ireland and was illiterate. On the married certificate he could only make a mark.  

And the following year they were to have William, their first of four children to be born in Scotland, followed in 1870 by Dennis, in 1872 in Addiewell by West Calder by Mary and James in 1874. And it is really Mary, who is the key to this story for at some point after last date the Greens were to leave Scotland and head south. In fact, at some point between then and about 1878 that journey had taken them and others in the Gallacher family to Latin America, indeed to Argentina and Rosario. And it was there in 1879 that Michael Hugh Green was born, Mary aged seven. And he was to followed by Susana in 1882 and Daniel Jnr. in 1885, all of them Scots-Irish by origin.

Quite what work Daniel Snr. had found in Rosario is unclear but it may already have been with the British-owned Central Argentine Railway, founded in 1863 and which two decades or so later was to recruit as a carriage painter a Scot from Dingwall in Ross-shire; one with a passion for football that on Christmas Eve 1889 would see the foundation of Rosario's first senior football club, then called The Central Argentine Railway Athletic Club, now simply Rosario Central, with its stadium still down near the old yards and its president for the fist eleven years that same Scot, Colin Bain Calder. Moreover, in 1890 Bain Calder would marry eighteen year-old Mary Green, the two families living as neighbours. And that same year, as Rosario Central fielded it first ever team in a game against a passing British ship, an eleven year-old Michael or in Argentina, Miguel, Green as its centre-forward.     

Miguel Green, working initially as a clerk, would continue to play for Rosario until retirement from the game in 1906 still at a relatively young age. By then his club from 1903 had been playing in the strong local league, so out of the eye of Buenos Aires and therefore international selection, and, despite winning its first national title in 1913, it would continue to do do until 1939. And as such he was joined in the Central team by his younger brother.  The two, Michael and Danny, would play alongside each other for the two seasons from 1904, Danny hanging up his boots in 1911, by which time Michael had been Treasurer of the Rosario League in 1905, football in Argentina, of course, played in their winter but our summer, that same year had been deemed largely responsible for the bringing through of Zenon Dias, the first Rosario Central player selected for Argentina, and in 1909 was himself President of Central itself.  Brother, Danny, would be Vice-President in 1911.       

Both Miguel and Danny Green would live out their lives in Argentina. Danny would probably marry in 1915 in Rosario and have a family there with no date of death known. Miguel would seemingly not marry, dying in Buenos Aires in 1947 and to be buried in the city's Western Cemetery. But today his remains are to found in the British Cemetery in Chacarita, moved there in 1954 for reasons unknown.