Tuesday 15 June 2010

When arrive the football to Chile?¿?¿


The football is the most important sport in Chile. It arrives to Chile in the nineteen century when the English people disembarked in Valparaiso, Iquique, Coquimbo and Talcahuano. In these seaports the football became the most popular imported sport in minus of one decade.
The practice of the football started into British group on Mackay high school and Southerland from Cerro Alegre.
The first matches were played between 1885 and 1886 in the Valparaiso sporting club. In July 10th of those years Valparaiso F.C., the first Chilean football team, played.
In 1893 this sport arrives to Santiago. In November 25th of this year

was played the first international match. In the sporting club the seaport Chilean team versus a similar Argentina team composed by British citizens. This game finished with a tie.
In 1894 the seaport football clubs increased and these organized a tournament where the Valparaíso F.C. and Mackay F.C, Cerro Concepción team of the Cable West Word Company, England, Scotland, Valparaiso football league, Santiago and Viña del mar participated as well. This enthusiasm by the football originated two new football clubs: Victoria Rangers and Valparaíso Wanderers. Of these old football clubs only Santiago Wanderers and Everton from Viña del Mar survive today. Santiago Wanderers was born in August 15th in 1892 and Everton in June24th in 1909.
In Santiago, the football diffusion started a little after the seaports. It began in the Santiago College and the English international Institute from Quinta normal. In 1893 the Santiago club, the first football team from Santiago, was founded and after that the Santiago city (1893) and Santiago Rangers (1896) began.

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