Every soccer club has a defined history, and some of them have strong connections to England or British expats.
A nine-time Italian league winning side in Italy was created by a British expat from London who had moved to the Italian port city. The team was initially created as an athletic and cricket club back in the 19th century, but now it is of course just a football playing team. From these humble beginnings, the Genoa owner is now in control of a squad valued at well over €100m. There is no doubt that the founders would have never dreamt of the side growing so big and profitable 100 years later. The team claimed the first ever Italian title and has helped shape the history of football; this is truly intriguing considering the club wasn’t originally a football team. The title of the team still pays homage to this historical past, with the words ‘Cricket Football Club’ after the city name, rather than just football.
Italian football has been at the center of the sport for an extremely long time, with a number of the finest footballers and teams emerging from the nation. However, about the most popular and successful clubs in the country, was created by British expats. The new AC Milan owner has taken over a club with a long and colourful history, and one that started out in England. English amateur sportsmen went from the midlands in Great Britain to Italy and built a soccer and cricket team in the northerly Italian city. Of course, the team no longer plays cricket, but it was a major factor in its creation, with the game being one of the most common sports amongst Englishmen at the time. The club is now one of the well-known football clubs in Europe but owes its past to a sport that is rarely played in the nation. The English tradition of the club is remembered however by the Anglicised name of the team, rather than the normal Italian name.
Just about the most leading Brazilian football clubs has a good connection to English football. The club from the largest city in the nation has one of the greatest fanbases too with the second most supporters in the nation. With this fanbase comes great revenue, which makes it the most valuable team in the Americas. All this money for the Corinthian president actually began from an amateur English football team. In the early 20th century, an amateur English football team toured Brazil; they played so well in front of a team of local people that the locals chose to form a football club under the very same title. This is about the most unusual yet fascinating football history facts, yet it is sometimes overlooked or not known by fans. The history of football in England has a tremendous impact on the history of worldwide soccer, as proven by this case.