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In almost every single instance, the very first to adopt football had been the cosmopolitan sons of local elites, quite a few of whom had been sent to British schools by their Anglophile parents. Searching for status as nicely as diversion, middle-class workers of British firms followed the upper-class lead. From the gamut of games played by the upper and middle classes, the industrial workers of Europe and Latin America, like the indigenous population of Africa, appropriated football as their own. Neither sport enjoyed the reputation of association football. Practically all series award points according to the finishing position of...