The Men Who Made Chilean Football

It is a list, in date-of-birth order only for convenience, that, if, like me, you know the history of early Chilean football, did not take long to compile. There are six names, ten men in all, all Scots, be it native-born or Diasporan and they are the ones, as players, administrators and enthusiasts, who created Chilean football. And seven of them were also the suppliers of the limbs, feet, sinew and skill to demonstrate, to plant the notion of playing in the minds of fellow first-generation immigrants, whose fathers knew nothing of the game but who took to it like, well, Scots and have never looked back.