144 years of football in Venezuela

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· 17 Jul 2021

144 years of football in Venezuela

#history Today 16 July is the 144th anniversary of the first football game, this first football match known so far was on July 16, 1875 and had the population of Callao in Bolivar Venezuela as protagonist.

The most accurate thing you have about this football game in Venezuela is a press release from the late weekly El Correo Delyuruari, a newspaper of Guasipati, founded in 1855 that described it as the exhibition of a sport called foot - boll, on the occasion of the celebration of the day of the virgin of Carmen on July 16, 1875.

It was organized by a Welsh teacher named A. W Simpson, who worked for mining companies in the area, participated in it English and Trinidadian.

The meeting was held on a site in Caratal, near the gold mine called Peru, in Callao state Bolivar .

The result did not know because the newspaper only accounted for the game.

In 1976, the Venezuelan football federation on the occasion of the 100th anniversary of this historic game was taken as the basis to celebrate football day in Venezuela.