In this room, a story is told that begins with Charles Miller—when football arrived in Brazil in the late 19th century—and goes up to the mid-1930s, passing through the struggle for the acceptance of Black athletes in clubs up to the professionalization of the sport. The great star of this period was Arthur Friedenreich, the son of a Brazilian mother and a father of German descent. Over four hundred images from all corners of the country show the context of the period, from the coffee barons to the humble people who took football for themselves… and reinvented it!