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At the turn of the twentieth century, Germans were the dominant immigrant group in Porto Alegre. Gremio - which means fraternity - was founded by the man who owned the city's first football and, in its early years, only admitted Germans. Two Brazilians who had moved South from Sáo Paulo were not allowed to join, so they founded Internacional.
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Copyright © 2005 by Alex Bellos. Published by Bloomsbury, New York and London. Distributed to the trade by Holtzbrinck Publishers.
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