The beautiful game — a gift to the world from Glasgow

Thomas Donohoe, from Busby in East Renfrewshire — now part of Greater Glasgow — was a skilled textile worker when he emigrated to Bangu near Rio de Janeiro in 1894 and established the first five-a-side games there. He is credited as the “father of Brazilian football” and his statue stands over Bangu.

And see the January 2015 journal article ‘Thomas Donohoe introduced football to Brazil – fact’