Zuzu

Cunha Bueno, the Paulistano goalkeeper, in action against Palestra Itália in 1917.
Zuzu, as he was known, was a goalkeeper of desperation, noted for unconventional last ditch saves executed with all parts of his anatomy.
With Zuzu in goal Paulistano won the Campeonato Paulista in 1916,1917, 1918 & 1919.
Away from football he was a coffee farmer and exporter. 
The ball in this photograph looks small. I have read that size 4 balls were used in Italy, I'm not sure if that was the case in South America too. 

Brazil 1919

Spain vs Brazil 1934

The knockout format of the 1934 World Cup tournament meant that Brazil, Argentina and the United States only played one match each after their transatlantic voyages.
Here is an action shot from the Brazil v Spain match played at Stadio Luigi Ferraris, Genoa (27.05.34). Leônidas da Silva shooting wide, watched by Ricardo Zamora.
Brazil were 3-0 down in half an hour, Leônidas announced himself with a 55th minute strike. Brazil were awarded a penalty in the 62nd minute, but Zamora, playing in his 43rd international, saved from Waldemar de Brito.

FC Libertador

The city of Caxias do Sul in Rio Grande do Sul was founded by Italian migrants in 1890. The 2 major clubs in the city are Sociedade Esportiva e Recreativa Caxias do Sul (1935) and Esporte Clube Juventude (1913).
Pictured above is the team of FC Libertador from 1933. From what I can gather this was a team associated with the São Pedro woolen mill.  

Domingos da Guia

A skillful and authoritative defender,  Domingada has the distinction of having won major honours in 3 countries. Beginning his career at Bangu as a 17 year old he later joined Vasco da Gama. Having won the Uruguayan Championship with Nacional in 1933, he returned to Vasco, who won the 1934 (LCF) Campeonato Carioca. 1935 saw  Domingos helping Boca Juniors to the Argentinian championship. 

Domingos returned to Brazil in 1936 and had spells with Flamengo and Corinthians before returning to Bangu. His career lasted until 1950. 

He was capped 30 times for Brazil, his debut coming in 1931.

Say it with flowers #2

     Américo Miguel Tesoriere                                                             Agostinho Fortes Filho

Estadio das Laranjeiras, Rio de Janeiro 15.10.22. Brazil 2 Argentina 0.

Taça Brasil de Seleções 1907

Football can play a significant role in  the development of a sense of national identity. In 1907 the president of Brazil, Snr Afonso Pena, donated a trophy to be awarded to ' National Champions'. 

The first Rio de Janeiro championship had been decided in 1906 (Fluminense)  whilst the São Paulo championship had been in place since 1901 (Germania were the 1906 champions).
The governing bodies of football in the 2 principal cities (Liga Paulista de Foot-Ball (founded 1901) and Liga Metropolitana de Sports Athleticos (founded 1905)) decided against a championship playoff between the 2 champion clubs, and instead opted for a match between 2 league representative teams.
This overlooked the fact that a Bahia state championship had been played since 1905 (Clube de Natação e Regatas São Salvador were the reigning champions).
The 2 representative sides met first on 25.08.07 at São Paulo's Campo do Velódromo. 
The line ups were:

Liga Paulista de Foot-Ball
Tutu	Paulistano
Tommy	Paulistano
Walter Jeffery	Paulistano
Thiele	Germânia
Argemiro	Internacional
Gerhardt	Germânia
Einfurher	Internacional
Leônidas Bellegardes	Internacional
Aquino	Americano
Oscar de Andrade	Americano
Colston	Internacional

Distrito Federal
Waterman	Fluminense
Riether	Fluminense
Pullen	Paysandu
Mutzembecker	Internacional
A. Werneck	Paysandu
Wood	Fluminense
Oswaldo Gomes	Fluminense
Wilding	Internacional
Oscar Cox	Fluminense
E. Etchegaray	Fluminense
Waymar	Paysandu

São Paulo took a firm hold by winning the home tie by 4-1. The São Paulo goalscorers were Leônidas Bellegardes, Oscar de Andrade, Aquino and Colston. Oswaldo Gomes scored for the visitors. 
The return fixture was played  7 weeks later on 12.10.07 at Paysandu's ground.   

Distrito Federal
Waterman	Fluminense
Robinson	Paysandu
Victor  Etchegaray	Paysandu
Mutzembecker	Internacional
Pullen	Paysandu
João Leal	Fluminense
Rob	Paysandu
Oswaldo Gomes	Fluminense
Oscar Cox	Fluminense
Emile Etchegaray	Fluminense
Felix Frias	Fluminense

Liga Paulista de Foot-Ball
Tutu	Paulistano
I. Rittscher	Germânia
Walter Jeffery	Paulistano
Thiele	Germânia
Argemiro	Internacional
Gerhardt	Germânia
Einfurher	Internacional
Leônidas Bellegardes	Internacional
Aquino	Americano
Oscar de Andrade	Americano
H. Ruffin	Americano

São Paulo won this leg by 1-0 with a goal from Leônidas Bellegardes.

The Carioca Paulista theme was revived in a club competition in 1910.

Pe de Ouro

                                         Friedenreich with the Brazil team 1925

Arthur Friedenreich had a phenomenal goal scoring record. It is possible that he was the most prolific scorer in the history of the game.

Let's look at the statistics (or the reputed statistics) associated with Fried:

It has been traditionally asserted that he scored 1239 goals in 1329 games. This figure was supposedly the outcome of a contemporary record which was the work of 2 people; Friedenreich's father and his Paulistano team mate Mário de Andrade e Silva.  If we accept that Fried's career lasted from 1909 (when he was 17) until 1935 1329  games would equate to a shade over 49 games a season.  The scoring rate is 0.93 goals per game.

When Andrade died the records that he and Friedenreich Senior had kept were lost.

A journalist named De Vanney firstly accepted these figures as being accurate and then inexplicably reversed them to promote the claim that Fried had scored 1329 goals in 1239 games. This would have represented a strike rate of 1.07 goals per game.

Other figures (based on analysis of contemporary reports) have been 554 goals in 561 games (Alexandre da Costa) and 558 goals in 562 games (Severino Filho).

A detailed season by season record that appears on RSSSF Brazil gives figures of 557 goals in 562 games (acknowledging the absence of reliable records for a number of matches). This gives a strike rate of 0.99 goals per game. 

Looking at this apparently comprehensive record of the matches that Friedenreich played in during his adult life it is hard to imagine where the 767 unrecorded matches (and 682 goals) could have come? There have been suggestions that Andrade might have included scratch matches and Torneio Início Paulista (in which teams would play a number of matches of 20 minutes in one day). Even if this was the case the defecit of 30 matches a season (spread over his entire career) seems excessive. 
I am inclined to believe the RSSSF Brazil figures which whilst not accounting for the 1000+ goals that others claim for Fried, are very impressive indeed:

Year	Team	Matches	Goals
1909	Germânia	1	*
1910	Ypiranga	2	*
1911	Germânia	13	6*
1912	Mackenzie	11	15	Liga Paulista top scorer
	Seleção Brasileira	1	2
	Combinado Paulista	2
	Combinado Brasileiro	2	1*
1913	Ypiranga	8	5
	Americano	5
	Combinado Brasileiro	2	1
	Seleção Paulista	1
	Paulista	1	*
1914	Paulista	2
	Atlas	1	1
	Ypiranga	12	16	Liga Paulista top scorer
	Seleção Paulista	5	3
	Ypiranga/Paulistano	1	2
	São Bento/Ypiranga	1	2
	Seleção Brasileira	4	1
1915	Seleção Paulista	2	2
	Ypiranga	12	7
	Paysandu	3	*
1916	Paysandu	6	4*
	Seleção Paulista	2	3
	Paulistano	2
	Seleção Brasileira	4	1
1917	Ypiranga	6	14	Liga Paulista top scorer
	Flamengo	1
	Paulistano	6	1*
	Seleção Paulista	4	8
	Seleção Brasileira	1	1
1918	Paulistano	15	25	Liga Paulista top scorer
	Seleção Paulista	8	14
	Seleção Brasileira	1
1919	Paulistano	21	28	Liga Paulista top scorer
	Seleção Paulista	1	2
	Seleção Brasileira	4	4	Campeonato Sul-Americano top scorer
1920	Seleção Paulista	1	3
	Tutu/Miranda	1	1
	Paulistano	20	37
1921	Paulistano	22	35	Liga Paulista top scorer
	Bela Vista/Consolação	1	1
1922	Seleção Paulista	5	9
	Paulistano	20	20
	Seleção Brasileira	2	0
1923	Seleção Paulista	3	2
	Paulistano	17	17
	Paulistano/Palestra	1	2
	Paulistano/Flamengo	1
1924	Paulistano	24	26
1925	Paulistano	23	17
	Seleção Paulista	2	3
	Seleção Brasileira	4	2
1926	Paulistano	23	14*
	Seleção Paulista	3	1
1927	Paulistano	15	17	Liga Paulista top scorer
	Combinado De Brancos	2	2
1928	Seleção Paulista	2	4
	Combinado Jacaré	1	*
	Paulistano	23	32	Liga Paulista top scorer
	Combinado De Brancos	1
1929	Paulistano	24	20	Liga Paulista top scorer
	Seleção Paulista	7	6
	Internacional	1	1
	Atlëtico Santista	1	1
1930	Santos	1
	São Paulo	31	32
	Seleção Paulista	3	3
	São Paulo/Palestra	2	3
	Mackenzie Alumni	1
	Seleção Brasileira	1	1
1931	São Paulo	26	33
	Seleção Paulista	9	9
1932	São Paulo	18	8*
1933	São Paulo	17	4*
	Dois De Julho	1	1
1934	São Paulo	26	14
	São Paulo/Santos	1	1
1935	São Paulo	6	3
	Santos	5	1