Georg Paul Hermann Friese (22 May 1880
[''Hamburg, Germany, Births, 1874-1901''][Diario Official (Estado de São Paulo), 7 October 1930: "''Por outra da mesma data, foi declarado brasileiro Georg Paul Hermann Friese, natural da Allemanha, nascido 22 de maio de 1880, filho de Hermann Peter Johannes Friese, casado, residente no estado de São Paulo.''"] – October 1945) was a German-Brazilian athlete, association football player who played as a
forward
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, and referee. He is considered alongside
Charles Miller,
Hans Nobiling and
Oscar Cox one of the most important pioneers of football in Brazil and is recognized as the first exceptional footballer there.
Early life and family
Friese was born in
Hamburg
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, the son of Hermann Peter Johannes Friese and Henriette Friedericke Adelaide Bertha Hohlers.
Career
In 1903, the 23-year-old Friese migrated from Germany to Brazil where he joined
Sport Club Germânia, the club of the German community of São Paulo, founded in 1899 by Hans Nobiling. Like Nobiling, Friese played in Hamburg for ''SC Germania 1887'' - one of the precursors of today's
Hamburger SV
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- which gave name and colours to the Brazilian club.
Friese was top scorer of the State Championship of São Paulo, the
Campeonato Paulista
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of 1905 with 14 goals and won the championship with Germânia in 1906 and 1915. In 1903 the newspaper
O Estado de S. Paulo
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called him "the most sensational player of all time" (''o jogador mais sensacional de todos os tempos'').
Friese was also coach of the team where around 1909
Arthur Friedenreich
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obtained his first experiences. "Fried," these days considered of one of the greatest players of all time, was son of a German businessman that migrated from Hamburg and a black Brazilian woman. By intervention of Friese, statutes of the club prohibiting the membership of coloured people were removed.
Friese also was a football referee - then not uncommon for a player - and officiated the deciding matches of the State Championships of 1903, 1904, 1910 and 1920. He also was referee of the
Troféu Interestadual of 1910, where
Botafogo FC of Rio de Janeiro defeated
AA das Palmeiras with 7-2 in the
Velódromo of São Paulo.
On 22 October 1916 he officiated the State Championship between
Santos FC
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and
Ypiranga, which also was the opening match for the stadium of Santos, the
Vila Belmiro
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. Santos won the match 2-1. Altogether Friese arbitrated 53 or more State Championship matches.
These days Friese is one of ten patrons of the ''Academia Paulista de Árbitros de Futebol "Charles Miller,"'' an honour he shares with World Cup referees like
José Roberto Wright
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...
,
Armando Marques,
Arnaldo Cézar Coelho
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and
, amongst others.
[Sergio Correa: ]
Árbitros terão sua Academia
'', Cartão Vermelho, 29 January 2004 (Estatuto da Academia Paulista dos Árbitros de Futebol - ACADEPAR).
Still in Europe he was a formidable track and field athlete, winning the German championship over 1500 metres of 1902. In May 1907 he was the sole representative of Brazil in an international competition in Uruguay and in one evening won the 1500 and 800-metre competitions and finishing second over 400 metres.
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1880 births
1945 deaths
Brazilian football referees
Brazilian men's footballers
German men's footballers
Footballers from Hamburg
Men's association football forwards
São Paulo state football team players
Esporte Clube Pinheiros sportspeople