Charles William Miller (24 November 1874 – 30 June 1953; was a English sportsman, who is considered to be the father of Brazilian football. Miller founded Sao Paulo Athletic Club (SPAC), one of the oldest sports club in Brazil, and found the Liga Paulista de Foot-Ball, current Campeonato Paulista, Brazil's first football league. He is also considered the father of Rugby football in Brazil.
In 1894 Charles Miller arrived in Brazil from England with two footballs, some kit and a set of Hampshire FA "rules". Miller was born in Sao Paulo to an English father, Scot John Miller, a railway engineer, and a Brazilian mother; very much part of the coffee and commerce elite of Sao Paulo.
Previously, he was sent to England for his education, to a school called Bannister Court in Hampshire. He was recorded in the 1891 Census whilst a boarder at Millbrook School. He played football for the school team and the Corinthians as well as the recently formed local professionals, St Mary's, later known as Southampton FC.
Returning to Brazil, he played for the Sao Paulo Cricket Club and persuaded his friends to play a "winter" sport, football. The first matches in 1895, were played on scrubland, east of the city, where mules grazed. These beasts of burden were used to pull city trams. The mules were chased away and replaced by lads called "Sao Paulo Railways", playing "The Gas Team" from a local gas company.
In 1897, Hans Nobiling, a German immigrant, landed in Sao Paulo with German football rules and some status of playing in Hamburg. A stranger, he couldn't get a game with Sao Paulo AC, so he gathered "excluded" non-Anglo immigrants and formed AC Internacional. More clubs formed which included an exclusively Teutonic SC Germania, a team formed by American students from the local Mackenzie College and CA Paulistino a sports' club made of the city Brazilian elite.
By 1901 the club played friendlies, for example in May, against some English sailors and by 1902 an extensive league programme (the 1st League), the Liga Paulista and city championship was staged. Brazil's National Football Day is held on July 19th to celebrate the club's founding.
On the 19th July 1900, The Sport Club Rio Grande was founded by him and now plays in the Campeonato Gaucho, the regional Second Division, at the Arthur Lawson Stadium that hold 5,000. Here is the badge...almost a beach ball!!?
By 1901 the club played friendlies, for example in May, against some English sailors and by 1902 an extensive league programme (the 1st League), the Liga Paulista and city championship was staged. Brazil's National Football Day is held on July 19th to celebrate the club's founding.
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