Display Cabinet 1 - Brazil

This sheet relates to items in a four shelf display cabinet on the theme of Brazil. This includes objects linked to Exeter City’s tour of South America in 1914, their game with Brazil on that tour, the visit by the Brazil Masters team to St James Park in 2004, the tour of Brazil made by the club in 2014 including the centenary game in the Laranjeiras stadium in Rio and more general items relating to football in Brazil.

Top Shelf (1.1)

Left to right:

On lefthand side panel: Top – Photo of Exeter City players Matt Grimes and Ollie Watkins in Laranjeiras Stadium after Centenary match in 2014. Photo: Martin Weiler

Bottom:  outward:  Exeter City Team photo 1913-14; inward: 1914 poster of Exeter City games in Rio (postcard sized reproduction)

1. Trophy won by Exeter City at centenary game in 2014. Agreement was made that if the match was a draw the away team would win the trophy. The match with Fluminense U-23 ended 0-0 and the trophy was presented to City captain Scott Bennett. The engraving on the trophy reads ‘FitaRoxa 20 de Julho de 2014 Fluminense FC x Exeter City FC Laranjeiras Rio de Janiero’. The family of Jaca Marcos Carneiro de Mendeoca, the Brazilian goalkeeper in 1914 donated the trophy. It is rumoured that the trophy itself was used by Mendeoca as an ice bucket .

2. Book  - ‘Have you ever played Brazil – The story of Exeter City’s 1914 tour to South America’ by Aidan Hamilton. Published 2014.

3. Programme (replica) from match v Sur on 21 June, the second game on the Argentinean leg of the tour. Played at Racing Club’s Avellaneda stadium. Exeter won 3-0.

4. Photograph from game v Rio on 19 July. Played at Laranjeiras stadium. Exeter won 5-3.

5. Football (centre) from 1914 tour.

Brought back from South America by Exeter Goalkeeper Dick Pym. Has writing on it relating to the Norte match, the first game in Argentina on 14 June. Exeter lost 1-0. Donated by the Pym family.

6. Football (right) also from the 1914 tour. Also brought back by Dick Pym. Said to have been used in the game v Racing in Argentina on 24 June; won by Exeter 2-0. Pym gave the ball to Countess Wear Youth Club to auction for funds. It was secured by the Exeter Chairman Byron Snell. Snell donated to the Museum.

7. Book – Historia do Futebol no Brazil 1894-1950 by Tomas Mazzoni. Donated to the museum by Aidan Hamilton.  Aidan had been sent cut out pages of the book in several packages and had the book specially restored, bound and put in a sleeve by a bookbinder in Southampton. The history includes a photograph of the Exeter City team that played Brazil on 21 July 1914 and an interview with SylvioLagreca, one of the four Sao Paulo players in the Brazil team.

On Right hand side panel: Inward: reproduction of a page from the match programme Norte v Exeter City in Argentina (see item 5 above).

Second shelf from top (1.2)

Left to Right

On left hand side panel:  Inward -Brazilian Masters official dinner brochure, Sunday 30 May 2004 at Devon Hotel, Matford, Exeter.  Outward – Brazilian team autographs.

8. Plaque presented to Exeter City by the Brazilian FA (CBF); 2004.  

9. Team-sheet from Exeter City v Brazilian Masters; 30 May2004 at St James Park. . Brazil won 1-0.

10. Book – ‘Nos Somos A Historia’ 1914 to 2014. History of Fluminense Football Club opened on pages about Brazil v Exeter in 1914. Presented to the Exeter City by Fluminense FC.

11. Brazil CBF pennant presented to Exeter City before the Brazil Masters match.

12. Boots worn by Exeter City Brazilian player Santos Gaia.  A defender, Santos played 140 first team games for Exeter between 2002 and 2006.

13. Generic signed CBF pennant.

14. Pin badge to commemorate the Brazil Masters match.

15. Pennant presented to Brazilian Masters by Exeter City.

16. Match ball from the Brazilian Masters game.

17. Brazil Masters match programme (Centenary brochure). At the time 2004 was considered the centenary year of the formation of Exeter City. Subsequent research shows that 1904 was simply the year when St Sidwells United changed their name to Exeter City. As St Sidwell’s United were formed in 1901,2001 is now recognised as the Centenary year. 

Third shelf  (from top) (1.3)

Left to right

18. Plaque from Fluminense Football Club to mark centenary game v Exeter City at Laranjeiras Stadium on 20 July 2014.

19. Match ball from Centenary game.

20. Match scarf marking Centenary game.

21. Cinefoot award plate – for film records relating to Brazil v Exeter.

22. Article in the Times newspaper relating to Exeter’s trip to Brazil in 2014.

23. Match ticket for Centenary game.

24. Exeter City ‘number plate’; on sale in Rio in 2014.

25. Fan’s yellow tour shirt; 2014.

26. Personal photobook created by Exeter fans, Adrian and Trevor, on 2014 tour.  

27. Exeter Living magazine featuring ‘The day we played Brazil’ play at the Northcott Theatre in 2014

28. Trophy presented to Exeter City for winning game v Tupi FC on 23 July 2014. Exeter won 2-1 at the University of Juiz de Fora in Brazil.

29. Programme from play at the Northcott Theatre. See also 27 above.

30. Postcard advertising exhibition held on Exeter City’s 1914 South American tour. The exhibition was staged at the Club in November 2013. The panels from the exhibition are on display in the walkway to the Grecian Centre in the main stand.

Bottom shelf (1.4)

Left to right:

31. Fluminense FC drinks cup

32. Book – ‘Xerem Guerreiros Nascem Aqui’ (‘Warriors are born here’). 2016. About players from Fluminense Academy.  Presented to Exeter City by Fluminense FC.

33. Tickets from club matches in Brazil. Donated by Aidan Hamilton.

34. Fluminense FC Pennant.

35. Fluminense key ring.

36. Fluminense centenary medal. 2002.

37. Book on Rio Cricket Club history. Exeter City played Rio Cricket Club on their 2014 tour of Brazil. Exeter won 3-1.  

38. Book – ‘Eu Sou Pele’ – Pele’s first autobiography.  Signed first edition. 1961. Donated by Aidan Hamilton.

39. FIFA Club World Championship brochure – Brazil 2000. Donated by Aidan Hamilton.  

40. Book – ‘Eterna Leggenda’ about Torino FC in Italy. Torino made three trips to Brazil in 1914, 1929 and 1948. Tragically in 1949 the Torino team lost their lives in an air disaster. The team are remembered in the Museo del-Grande Torino in Villa Claretta Assandri, Grugliasco, Turin.

41. Book – ‘Sai da rua, Roberto!’  Autobiography of Rivellino. Was bought and signed by him at a launch in the Fluminense ballroom. Published 1999. Donated by Aidan Hamilton.

42. Tickets from 2002 World Cup World Cup Qualifiers in Brazil. Donated by Aidan Hamilton.