Hans Nobiling
Hans Nobiling (born September 10, 1877 in Hamburg , † July 30, 1954 in Jacarepaguá , Rio de Janeiro ) was a German-Brazilian football player and pioneer.
Life
In Germany he had played soccer at Sport Club Germania 1887 , later Hamburger SV , and made it to the Hamburg championship . In 1897 he emigrated from Hamburg to São Paulo to settle there as a businessman. On arrival he had a soccer ball in his luggage, the statutes of Germania and the Hamburg Sports Association. First, he competed with a team called the Hans Nobilings Team , one of the first soccer teams in Brazil .
When Nobiling wanted to turn the syndicate into a regular club, a name dispute arose: 15 players voted for “Internacional”, five for “Germânia”. The club founded on August 19, 1899 as SC Internacional should make its way into the history of football in Brazil. After the state championships in 1907 and 1928, the club got into financial distress in the 1930s. Through mergers, he became part of today's successful club, São Paulo FC, by the end of the decade .
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Hans Nobiling was disappointed that his suggestion for a name met with little response. Together with the Wahnschaffe brothers, he left the new club, and on September 7, 1899, he and other German immigrants founded the Germânia Sport Club in the House of Wahnschaffes . He not only gave it the same name, but also the same club colors as his former club in Hamburg. Germânia was the fourth football club in Brazil after the club of the English-born pioneer Charles Miller's São Paulo Athletic Club , as well as Mackenzie College and Internacional. The rowing clubs from Rio de Janeiro, Flamengo and Vasco da Gama may be a few years older, but they did not start playing football until the second decade of the 20th century.
Nobiling remained president of SC Germânia until 1902, later became an honorary member and in 1939, as part of various far-reaching constitutional changes and the renaming of the club to Esporte Clube Germânia , was unanimously elected honorary president. Germânia was one of the founding members of the Liga Paulista de Foot-Ball and the national championship, the Campeonato Paulista , which the club won in 1906 and 1915 in December 1901 . Hans Nobiling was on the side of Charles Miller, João Evangelista Belfort Duarte and Herbert Boyes part of the São Paulo team that played the first two games against one of Oscar Cox , the founder of Fluminense FC, on the São Paulo Athletic Club in October 1901 , led selection of Rio de Janeiro, and thus the first ever games between teams from different states of Brazil, played. The games ended 2-2 and 0-0.
Together with Hermann Friese , who also came from Hamburg's SC Germania, he supported the opening of the club to people of color around 1909, in order to enable the German-born mulatto Arthur Friedenreich to be accepted at the request of his wealthy father. Friedenreich, who was to mature into the first great star in Brazilian football history, first played for Germânia in 1909 and played again for Germânia in 1911. As early as 1905, Nobiling, who had close contacts to Germany, had succeeded in winning the future German national team captain and Olympic participant Camillo Ugi for a four-month stint at SC Germânia. Nobiling had lured him to São Paulo with a lucrative position in his trading post.
In 1924, Nobiling and SC Germânia were also among the founders of the São Paulo tennis association, the Federação Paulista de Tênis . Nobiling himself was an avid tennis player after his retirement as an active soccer player. The sport was already practiced in the early years at SC Germânia.
After another name change due to the Second World War, SC Germânia still exists today as EC Pinheiros . According to its own statements, the club is today the largest multi-purpose sports club in the southern hemisphere with over 35,000 members. Football is no longer played there on a large scale.
At the end of the 1950s a street leading past the club's premises was named after him in Rua Hans Nobilng . The Rua Hans Nobiling, which consists of high-rise apartment buildings, is a good address in São Paulo due to its location in a good neighborhood and the unobstructed view of the green club grounds.
Individual evidence
- ↑ Tony Mason: Passion of the people ?: Football in South America , Verso, London & New York, 1995 ISBN 0-86091-403-8 ; P. 12.
- ↑ http://www.tenispaulista.com.br/site/index.php?cat_id=216 (link not available)
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Nobiling, Hans |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German-Brazilian soccer player and pioneer |
| DATE OF BIRTH | September 10, 1877 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Hamburg |
| DATE OF DEATH | July 30, 1954 |
| Place of death | Jacarepaguá , Rio de Janeiro |