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:

Scottish Sport History   



Uruguay
Uruguay might best be described as an aberration, politically and also in football. That it exists at all is something of a miracle, a buffer between Argentina to the south and west and Brazil to the north. Today it has a population of not quite 3.5 million, a sixtieth of Brazil's,  a tenth Argentina's, 60% of Scotland's. In 1930 it was half that, in 1900 less than a million. Yet starting in 1924 it won two Olympic titles for the beautiful game, in 1930 and 1950, both the World Cups it entered and since then has qualified for that same competition eleven times out of seventeen. Scotland has qualified just eight. 

It is a country that like Argentina also suffers from the Crillo Fallacy but is distinct from its neighbour in footballing terms in two fundamental ways. It has a definite, national footballing style, translated from Spanish simply as "short and to foot" and recognises one man as the originator of it. He is not the "father" of the game in the country. That is agreed to be William Leslie Poole.  Yet the man in question is probably the most influential South American footballer ever, more so even than Pele. A very good case can even be made for him to have been the most important footballer of all time. Not only was he the source of the style, with which Uruguay played and to an extent still play the game, he also can be said to have been the catalyst for football being multi-racial. The first Black football international was a Scot. The second and fourth were Uruguayan, indeed Uruguayan-born. And as for the man himself. He too played for Uruguay. He even captained the Uruguayan national team but he was not born there. His birthplace was Braehead in the now southern Glasgow suburb of Cathcart.  
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