While uncovering forgotten moments for our American soccer history newsletter, we stumbled upon Teddy Roosevelt’s 1914 travel journal. Hidden in its pages was an account of the time he witnessed the Pareci tribe playing a version of “association football” [soccer] deep in the Amazon Rainforest.
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📸: Kermit Roosevelt
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