Stories of Paraná - The Primeirona

Stories of Paraná - The Primeirona

The Primeirona
Roberto Brandão de Souza

Listen for the squad this timaço: Hauer, Labusch and Dietrich; Iwersen, Iusksch and Theo Obladen, Kastrup, Maschke, Leo Obladen, C. Shlemker and Fritz Essenfelder.
It seems that the German team took the Jules Rimet Cup in 1954. In fact, it is the eleven healthy young curitibanos, distant October 24, 1909, a Sunday, competed as "British" Ponta Grossa first interclub football match held in Parana. With these names, it was not strange that they were better known as the "Germans". Hence some wag might even say that the first football match in Parana was international English German X.
The "German", as they say in sports jargon, defended the colors of the glorious "Turnverein" that shortly after, would become the no less glorious "Coritiba Foot-Ball Club." Come this time his nickname "White Thigh", for reasons that seem obvious, although the nickname 'Thigh Rosa "also did not fall ill.
Already pontagrossenses, although more known then as "the English", they had a heavy majority of Brazilian players in the certificate and name.
In the historic first match, or "match" as it was called then, they were in the field with Ayres, Frederick and Debu, Charles Wright, and Joca Excelsior, J. Dawes, Monteiro, Silva Jardim, Flávio Guimarães and Savior.
Besides playing at home in the "ground" of the Upper Cemetery, the pontagrossenses still took the advantage of having the "referee", aka Judge, English Magnus Flygare, official American S. Brasilian Engineering Ca, company in charge of building the railroad that would connect the Paraná and São Paulo to Rio Grande do Sul
But it is evil to think that the "team" Pontagrossense won the clash by a goal to nil, thanks to this advantage.
The "team" curitibano lost, or did not win, by pure chance, you know. Football is full of surprises ... At least that's what a privileged witness suggested that first football match, the reporter Aldo da Silva, the "Daily Afternoon": "The Teutons (ie the Germans) developed the second time an attack is energetic and failed to score points must not simply the knowledge of the terrain and the chance, "Silva wrote detailed report on the" Daily Afternoon "published two days later, on the first page.
In it are left desbragados compliments, also for the first hat thigh, the president of the "team" Frederick Rummert, descriptions like "the stands of the Foot-ball Club Tip-grossense were full of spectators spilling from the sides of the field , and everyone seemed eager to see the beginning of the match ... "
Although it is not known from other reporters that, in later games, have assigned a team to defeat the ignorance of the field - after all the football field is roughly equal: rectangular with fixed measures, lawn and two sets of beams - the shrewd Aldo Silva did in our chronic school sports.
Because it was a special guest of one of the clubs, the Turnverein, he covered the opening match of our football.
In this condition he traveled to Ponta Grossa, checked into the best hotel in town, it was dinner and dancing - all on stewardship. And even today, they say there is nothing like a sportswriter more than a beautiful stewardship.
It is true that Aldo Silva was not alone. Also incorporated into the delegation Turnverein special guest was the reporter Luiz Schlemker of "Der Beobaether" informative German colony in Curitiba.
But this, as only his countrymen understood what happened, the story eventually acquitted.
Roberto Brandão de Souza, marketer Curitiba


Source: Stories of Paraná, Brasil.