26 Facts About Thomas Donohoe

Thomas Donohoe, the "Father Of Brazilian Football", was a master dyer in the calico printing industry.

Thomas Donohoe organized football matches in Bangu that year with fellow employees of the textile company Progresso Industrial Do Brazil.

Thomas Donohoe was born, in Busby, on 25 January 1863.

Thomas Donohoe left school around 1876 to become an apprentice dyer at the printworks.

Thomas Donohoe is on the extreme right and James is in the centre, wearing a bowler hat.

Thomas Donohoe lived in Burnside Terrace, Busby in 1871 and 1891, according to the UK census.

Thomas Donohoe married Elizabeth Montague, eight years his junior, in Busby in 1890.

Thomas Donohoe was enlisted in the Royal Navy during World War One and died in Glasgow in 1962.

Thomas Donohoe married Abigail DaSilva Torres, a Brazilian of Portuguese ancestry, in Rio de Janeiro in 1918.

Thomas Donohoe was recruited by Platt Brothers to work as the Bangu dyeworks foreman.

Thomas Donohoe travelled on the SS Clyde, from Southampton to Rio de Janeiro on 4 May 1894, arriving on 21 May He left his wife and two young children in Busby.

Thomas Donohoe asked his family to join him in Brazil once he was satisfied that they could build a new life there.

Thomas Donohoe said that the workers could spend their leisure time at the two company supported clubs - Progresso de Bangu Musical Society and the Fabrica Operarios Music Band.

For some unknown reason, Thomas Donohoe did not attend the inaugural meeting.

Thomas Donohoe died on 2 April 1925, of tuberculosis, in Bangu.

Thomas Donohoe says that football was first played in Bangu in 1894 by the British workers at the Bangu textile factory.

The raised finger shows that Thomas Donohoe is the first to bring football to Brazil.

The buildings of the textile factory where Thomas Donohoe worked are part of the centre.

Thomas Donohoe played for the club between 1913 and 1922.

Thomas Donohoe was born in Busby, East Renfrewshire and died in Rio de Janeiro.

Thomas Donohoe's story was told by Storm Huntley on the Riverside Show, the first program broadcast on the launch night of STV Glasgow.

Thomas Donohoe has been mentioned in Early Day Motions in the UK and the Scottish Parliaments.

In 2015, in the Rio de Janeiro International Short Film Festival, a Portuguese movie about Bangu and Thomas Donohoe called "Bola Para Seu Danau" won the Curta Rio Award together with 9 other short films about the city.

Thomas Donohoe is related, via his grandfather, to the Irish Republican, Michael Dwyer, the Wicklow Chieftain.

Pele, the Brazilian football legend, credits Thomas Donohoe with introducing football to Brazil in a 2016 interview with a Scottish newspaper.

Thomas Donohoe made a contribution, via his church, towards the building of the Christ The Redeemer Statue in Rio de Janeiro.