It confirmed research that Mr Donohoe organised Brazil's first football match, a five-a-side game in April 1894.

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The children went mad on our arrival and their football team happily beat us at a game of barefoot five-a-side on their stone-ridden playground.

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Worse yet, this latest damaging stalemate came against a Sunderland side that - for all the upward mobility suggested by a five-game unbeaten run - last won away in the league on the opening weekend of the season.

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