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My favourite random Cornish fact is that when a sizeable number moved to Mexico to work the silver mines, they introduced the Cornish pasty, which is now consid

• kgwgk 6y ago
  And football! "It was Cornish miners who introduced football to Mexico. The country’s first football club – Pachuca Athletic Club – originally comprised exclusively of Cornish mine workers. The Mexican League of Association Football was established in 1902. The first championship was played that same year and in the 1904-1905 tournament it was El Pachuca that won first place. To this day the city of Pachuca still prides itself as being the home of Mexican football." https://www.cornwall.gov.uk/environment-and-planning/conservation/world-heritage-site/delving-deeper/the-spread-of-cornish-mining-around-the-globe/cornish-mining-in-mexico/ https://www.cornwall.gov.uk/environment-and-planning/conserv...
  • pjmlp 6y ago
    I thought they already had it a couple of centuries before that, kind off. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maya_Ballgame https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maya_Ballgame