Foreign football teams with roots in British football

I always thought they were named after the English name for the Rio de la Plata and that football was brought to Argentina by English sailors in the early 1900s.

Either way, their superclasico match with Boca Juniors (incidentally, Boca means mouth in Spanish) remains one of the biggest in world football.

 

Or the Brazillian side Santos - named after one of the regulars on the forum.

 

This is my new Norwegian team

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Think they were named after exiled WW1 German soldiers in South Africa.

 

I'm sure everyone has a soft spot for Peruvian cracks, Deportivo ****a as well.

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Kaiser Chiefs are from Leeds you musically ******ed excuse-for-a-mod (named in honour of Lucas Radebe).

Anyway, is it weird that when I saw the title of this thread the first team that popped to mind was Gremio? Founded by English (and possibly German and/or Italian) immigrants I think.

 

It’s a bit dull, but Hamilton Academicals were formed by a group of visiting philosophers from New Zealand (from Hamilton City in NZ, to be precise) for a one-off match against Linthouse FC in the (now defunct) Glasgow Shield.

Although they were beaten, the match was a success and the venture continued (in one guise or another) right through to the present day. Heavily influenced by Schopenhauer, the original NZ philosophers set in place a system whereby new recruits to the Hamilton team might only be accepted if they showed themselves to be familiar with (and broadly sympathetic to) the idea that to arrive at a moral outlook one must first compassionately recognise at a universal level that the inner nature of another person is of the same substance as oneself. Almost charming, no? It caused a minor split with indigenous Kantians, however, and the ideals soon fizzled away.

Luckily, Rangers and Celtic continued the tradition of elevated discourse in and around Scottish football with their worldly concern for all things Irish or with things directly and exclusively related to themselves.

You couldn't make this stuff up.

 

I didn't know any of that.

Does that mean that Motherwell and Airdrie fans will be flying Immanuel Kant flags at future Lanarkshire derbies?

 

What about Queen of the South? I refuse to beleive they were originally made up from a local drag act homosexual group. Although the kilts did give it away to some extent.

 

Get this hook out of my cheek ya rapscallion.

 

not read this thread but is there any truth in the story that Barca were started by a bunch of British Proddies?

no surrender

 

Glasgow Rangers Football Club were formed in the slums of Glasgow by Moses McNeil who had parted the Irish sea to allow the fleeing bigots from Norn Ireland to settle in the holey land (Govan White Sock Market).
They originally wore all white robes and matching hoods like the team who had inspired them, the Ku Klux Klan. Later they decided to wear blue tops to match the colour of their Scots forebears' woad. They also sported Red socks with black turndowns because in the days of B&W TV the socks looked like wellies (another nod to their Irish roots)

 

I like Real Madrid's style though - real means royal in Spanish. Royal Madrid. Wow, Royal sure beats United any ****ing day.

 

Ha. Rumbled.

But this was a nice thought: "Does that mean that Motherwell and Airdrie fans will be flying Immanuel Kant flags at future Lanarkshire derbies?"

If only, Dame Edna, if only.

 

interesting post but do you know how many English teams have Scottish influences (so ive heard)