Juan Livingstone
At the Parque Pereira in Montevideo in the final game of the 1917, round-robin South American Championship held in Uruguay a smallish, dark-haired man took to the pitch as referee. He came from Chile, but with a twist, his name, Juan (John) Livingstone, the clue.
In terms of background he had been the founder of his country's Referees Association and before that at club level a player, a left-winger with Santiago Nacional and the Universidad Catolica, a Diasporan Scot amongst more than several others just as the game took off. But whilst he had certainly been born in Chile it had not been in the capital but in the Estacion district of the town of Los Andes with his surname the pointer to his origins. His father had been a Scot, registered at birth as John Pringle Livingston, originally from Inverkeithing in Fife, a railway engineer, dying still in Chile but in Valparaiso just five months after his son's arrival in 1889, his mother, An(n)a Eves, English, who would marry twice more again still in Chile, both times to Scots. and with her third husband have three more children; Macdonalds, two boys and a girl.
Thus John Livingstone would grow up in Santiago. Indeed he would die there too, in 1955, having trained as an architect but working finally as a journalist, with football administration on the side. He would be one of Chile's first three delegates ever to FIFA, travelling to Europe in 1928, perhaps even to Scotland, to attend its 1928 Congress in Amsterdam. He would also marry in Santiago, in 1918, and have two children, two boys, the second of whom, Sergio, El Sapo, The Toad because of his crouching stance, would from a start in the club-game in 1938, at twenty-one in 1941 become his country's goalkeeper, perhaps its greatest ever, captaining the national team at the 1950 World Cup including against England, retiring first internationally in 1954 and then from club football at almost forty in 1959.