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played football âalthough without obeying a regular organisationâ. This could mean, for example, that there were not eleven players per side or the pitch wasn't a regulation size etc. Pastor played for the club between 1911 and 1914 and, post his playing days, held various management positions within the club.
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Donohoe only played four matches for Bangu A.C. because he was forty-one years old when the club was founded. He, most likely, played for football teams in/around Busby before he went to Brazil. However, only two local match reports have been found which mention a
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Thomas was educated at the well regarded, fee-paying school in Church Lane (now Church Road), Busby. He left school around 1876 to become an apprentice dyer at the printworks. Both Thomas and his brother, James, appear in an 1884 photo of the dyehouse employees. They are in the back row. Thomas is on
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In 1940, Guilherme Pastor gave a newspaper interview discussing the origins of the Bangu A.C. He says that football was first played in Bangu in 1894 by the
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was formed on Sunday, 17 April 1904. For some unknown reason, Donohoe did not attend the inaugural meeting. In his absence, he was elected vice-president. The meeting decided that the club's colours were to be red and white. Teams would be formed for football, cricket, tennis and other sports. The
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A statue, over four metres high, of Thomas
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Brother Walfrid sculpture at Parkhead. The bust is in the carpark at Mary Young Place. It is made of carbon fibre on a blick plinth with dimensions 1600 x 700 x 700 mm. The reverse of the bust features the Brazilian flag together with a representation of the
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supplied machinery to Inglis & Wakefield, the Busby printworks owners, over many years. In 1892/1893 Platt
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Elizabeth died, date unknown, in Brazil. Thomas married Abigail DaSilva Torres, a Brazilian of Portuguese ancestry, in Rio de Janeiro in 1918. She was twenty-four years younger than him. Abigail's date and place of death are unknown. Thomas and Abigail had no children.
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Patrick Donohoe - Census data - Transcription - 1841 To 1881.
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The Brazilian football pioneer. Credit: Rogerio Melo.
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