Lake Palmer aka Monk wrote:
Not quite right Moxy,

An Englishman took the game to Brazil but it was a team of scottish expats - Scottish Wanderers that showed them how to play it.

Fuck knows how I remember that from that book, but I have and I've jolly well posted it.
From wikipedia (yeah, I know)

Football was introduced to Brazil by a Scottish expatriate named Thomas Donohue. The first football match played in Brazil was in April 1894, played on a pitch marked out by Donohue next to his workplace in Bangu.