Always credit should be given where credit is due and, sometimes, it is not or at least not entirely SFHG's. Indeed, in this case half, if not more, of the kudos is due to a man we have never met, Sebastian Nunez Mardones, Chilean football historian extraordinaire. 

Some years ago one of our members, Iain Campbell Whittle, traced the Scottish seeds of football in Chile back to from where they had first come, Ayrshire, the Borders and Moray. He even travelled to Chile to see in person where those same seeds had first been sown, initially in the Pacific port-city of Valparaiso, the first scattering taking place in 1895 with the foundation of the Chilean Football Association and the four men mainly involved; Honorary President, Peter Ewing, President, David Scott, the Borders man, Secretary, Andrew Gemmell, originally from Lossiemouth, and Treasurer,  Robert Reid, born in Dalry. And of them three would live out the rest of their lives in their adopted land, Reid in Argentina.