Oscar Alfredo Cox (20 January 18806 October 1931) was a Brazilian sportsman who introduced football to the city of

Rio de Janeiro Rio de Janeiro ( , , ; literally 'River of January'), or simply Rio, is the capital of the state of the same name, Brazil's third-most populous state, and the second-most populous city in Brazil, after São Paulo. Listed by the GaWC as a ...

and founded

Fluminense Fluminense Football Club (), known as Fluminense, is a Brazilian sports club best known for its professional football team that competes in the Campeonato Brasileiro Série A, the first tier of Brazilian football and the Campeonato Carioca, th ...

, one of Brazil's most traditional and popular football clubs.

Biography

Born to a wealthy family of

English Brazilian English Brazilians ( pt, Anglo-brasileiros) are Brazilians of full, partial or predominantly English ancestry or English-born people residing in Brazil. History Colonial-era economic influences and the Anglo-Portuguese Alliance led to the set ...

heritage, Oscar did his studies in

Lausanne , neighboring_municipalities= Bottens, Bretigny-sur-Morrens, Chavannes-près-Renens, Cheseaux-sur-Lausanne, Crissier, Cugy, Écublens, Épalinges, Évian-les-Bains (FR-74), Froideville, Jouxtens-Mézery, Le Mont-sur-Lausanne, Lugrin (FR ...

, where he got acquainted with the practice of football. Upon returning from Switzerland, Oscar tried to disseminate this activity in the city of

. On 22 September 1901, Oscar was able to organize the first football match in the history of the state of Rio de Janeiro. He then proceeded to

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, with some friends, to play against a group led by Charles Miller, who had started the process of disseminating football in

back in 1894. The groups played two times against each other, and both matches ended in a draw. On 21 July 1902, Oscar, aged 22, founded

. Fluminense remains as one of the most popular and traditional sports institutions still in existence in the history of Brazilian football. After his death in France his remains were transferred to Rio de Janeiro.

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