On October 26, 1863, with the formation of the English Football Association, the rules of football were established in writing. The meeting of the pioneers took place in the Freemason’s Tavernbelonging to the Queen Elizabeth Lodge No. 11, From london. There, the group led by the city of Harrow favored exclusively allowing the use of the feet and the head, to the detriment of the representatives of the English city of Rugby.
In the Freemason’s Tavern deliberations it was then agreed that football would be a team sport played between two teams of 11 players each and four referees so that the rules would be followed. The playing field would be rectangular, grass, with an arch on each side of the field.
The objective of the game would be to move a ball with any part of the body other than the arms or hands, and mostly with the feet, to try to get it into the opponent’s goal. That action would be called a “goal”. The team that achieved the most goals after the match, which lasted 90 minutes, would be the winner.
Of course the space for the meeting was not arbitrary, among the main promoters of the new sport were Freemasons who chose the Freemason’s Tavern for the meeting, (Tavern of the Freemasons). According to writings of the Grand Lodge of Argentina of Free and Accepted Masons establishes: “Football picked up from Freemasonry the spirit of equality and fraternity, without distinction of nationality, race, ideology, religion or gender. He doesn’t care if he is a socialist, a capitalist, a social democrat, or a third worlder. It also does not take into account if the player comes from the less favored classes or if he was born into a wealthy family”.
Soccer arrived in Argentina through English travelers, many of whom were Freemasons. There is data that on June 20, 1867 the first game was played in the Buenos Aires Cricket Club. A group of partners led by brothers Thomas and James Hogg published an ad in the newspaper a meeting to promote the practice of soccer and the foundation of the Buenos Aires Football Club. The first match was organized between Colorados and Blancos, where the former won 4-0.
Around 1887 he was born Quilmes Athletic Clubonly for English, the oldest entity that makes up the Argentine Football Association (AFA). On December 1, 1899, a local group gave birth to Argentinos de Quilmes. The historian Osvaldo Bayer in “Argentine Soccer” He described: “And they change another custom: the English, at halftime, drank tea. The Argentines made mate cocido”.
Son of the lodges of peninsular immigrants settled in the headquarters of Suárez 465, River Plate was born, on May 25, 1901, after the merger of the small entities Santa Rosa and La Rosales. His first court was in Sarandí, coinciding with the railway line in southern Buenos Aires. Curiously, the white colors and its red stripe coincide with the attributes of the master mason.
In his autobiographical book, Dr. Leopoldo Bard, Master Mason, prestigious doctor and later president of the bloc of national deputies of the UCRfrom 1922 to 1930, recalls his time as founder, first captain and president of River Plate Athletic Club. An indication that also corroborates the masonic genesis of the club.
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