Edgar Booth

Edgar Booth
Personnel
birthday	April 13, 1888
place of birth	Hamburg ,  Germany
size	176 cm
position	striker
Men's
Years	station	Games (goals) 1
1907-1914	Gremio Porto Alegre	315 (541)
1 Only league games are given.

Edgar Booth (born April 13, 1888 in Hamburg , † 1945 ) was a German, naturalized Brazilian footballer.

Edgar Booth was born in Hamburg in 1888 as the son of the former English naval officer Charles Edward Booth and the German wife Adelina. In the following year his family emigrated to Porto Alegre in Brazil , where his father opened a brick kiln.

By 1914 Edgar Booth was a successful football player at Gremio Porto Alegre . Booth became a legend on July 18, 1909 when, as captain, he led his team to victory against local rivals SC Internacional , newly founded in April . In front of about 2,000 spectators, Booth scored the first goal after 10 minutes and four more goals during the game, helping Gremio to a 10-0 victory . The Gre-Nal ( Gre mio-Internacio nal ) is the most prestigious derby in Brazil. The rivalry between the two clubs wasn't there back then, but the club and the Gremistas (Gremio fans) remember this victory with pride over a hundred years after the game.

Web links

• Report about Edgar Booth and the Gre-Nal-Derbies on 11freunde.de
• Report on the historic game on the club's website gremio.net (portug.)
• Background information on the Gre-Nal-Derby on fifa.com

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Background of the local derby on the club's homepage gremio.net (portug.) ( Memento of the original from August 11, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link has been inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.