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:
Peru
That football arrived quite early in Peru, or more precisely to Lima, its capital, and Callao, Lima's port, is clear. That football there was also organised early is equally certain. British sailors passed though the country's ports and there was a British community, There were known tournaments organised within that same community as early as 1885 and again in 1888. The first exclusively football club, Association F.C. is said to have been founded in 1897 but the mainly ex-patriate Lima Cricket and Tennis Club, later to become the Lima Cricket and Football Club, and the mixed ex-patriate and Peruvian Union Cricket were already playing the game. Then as the old century became the new more teams were formed and Cups and leagues came with them but seemingly out of the ether. By that time what is not known has descended like an all-enveloping fog. Unlike other South American countries there seem to be no names. no hooks to hang on, not at least until 1912 and Fry, Redshaw and Brown, and then with only one a tenuous hint of possible Scots involvement. Indeed for that certainty at least for the moment its seems we have to wait the best part of a century and ..........