Undoubtedly, football is regarded as one of the most prevalent sport in the entire

world and Brazil is for sure the greatest footballing nation on Earth, considering they
won the World Cup more times than any other country. Though there is a wide range
of eminent football players such as Pele, but let’s take a look at the figure of Charles
Miller and his immense contribution to football.
So, Charles was born on 24 November 1874 in San Paulo being a son of renown
Scottish footballer. In ten year time the boy went to school in England where he got
acquainted with football and cricket, which gave him basic skills of playing with the
ball.
In 1894 he returned to Brazil with two footballs and copy of the rules of the football.
Miller turned to a participants of the Sao Paulo Athletic Club and persuaded them to
take up football. Aside from it, Charles was instrumental in setting up the first league
in Brazil.
Incidentally, Miller was not only a great player, but also a superb coach and
administrator, he was committed to coaching Brazilians and was a referee until the
age of 50.
Nevertheless, Charles Miller was always against football becoming a business, where
money prevails over the game, so when in 1933 football became professional, the
man dropped the contact with the game.
Charles Miller’s memory lives on in the Brazilian football. Remarkably, when the
Sao Paolo sports writers association brought out a dictionary of football terms in
Portuguese, only one word survived from the vocabulary of the past which was the
Charles, denoting a clever pass with the heel of the foot named after Charles Miller.