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12th March 1881: Andrew Watson becomes the world’s first black international football player

12th March 2020
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Andrew Watson’s father, Peter Miller Watson, was the manager of a sugar plantation in British Guiana while his mother was a local woman called Anna (or Hannah) Rose.

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12th March 1881: Andrew Watson becomes the world’s first black international football player

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