As a bonus, here are some Scottish Welsh history links, in the spirit of international friendship. and unity. Scotland and Wales also each have huge links with our friends in England, and Ireland, the Northern Irish and Republic of Ireland as well.  And all other countries as well, like the USA, Australia, Canada, and New Zealand,  and our EU friends, Germany, France, Spain, Italy Poland etc etc,  etc etc etc, and Russia and Norway etc. Plus the rest of the world, Africa, South America Asia, the Caribbean etc etc. 

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* Scotland and Wales are both Celtic countries by virtue of their shared Celtic heritage, as in the language family. Both being countries, whose languages Gaelic and Pictish in Scotland, and Welsh in Wales, are descended from pre-Roman, pre Saxon invasions, Celtic languages. And so the people as well really. Though we each have had amount of migrations since then of course, nothing wrong with that. I myself have Scottish heritage with affects by immigration from other lands over the centuries, and the same for my Welsh heritage as well. 

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* Both survived for longer than England, against the Romans, and longer against the Saxons, and Normans as well. 

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* In the late 19th Century like the 1880s, Scotland and Wales were often bastions of the Liberals, against the Conservatives and in the 1970s, 1980s and early 1990s Scotland and Wales were bastions of Labour and the Lib Dems, in comparison to a more Conservative dominated England. (Though I have to admit this was not always so, some times the Conservatives or Unionist Party were strong in Scotland like the 1950s, though that was unusual it was normally Labour or Liberal plurality or majority, over the conservatives, and Wales was even more so most of the time). But both also proudly supplied a fair share of Tory ministers for their cabinets , not just for the Liberal and Labour regimes they had MPs for. 

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* Both in the late 13th Century had a struggle against the King of England's army. Wales's princes in Gwynedd were conquered, while the larger territory of Scotland was able to beat the kings back. 

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* Scotland's Robert III did receive a emissary or letter from Owain Glyndwr. Apparently Scotland allowed it's ships to attack English colonies, that were in North Wales, to support Glyndwr, but that was the limit.  Apparently Scotland even released propaganda that the then English king was a usurper, which helped Glyndwr's position. The king was a kind of usurper, so that was quite OK. (No offence to our English friends, I am just saying that we were in league with each other against cruel invasions, though 1 million percent the English are our pals as well now no doubt. 

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* The Southern areas of Scotland in the Dark Ages still had a Cumbric. British, Welsh language as shown by so many Celtic names in Southern and Central Scotland, like Dumbarton, Fort of the Britons, or Dun Eidin, etc etc. See my Celtic cities page. These were taken into the orbit of the Scottish kingdom, really a Pictish kingdom. The Picts were likely just far north Britons, speaking a Brythonic language. As shown by Aberdeen, having that term, as in Aber, or the mouth of the River Dee. Whereas Inverness also means a mouth of a river, it the Ness, it from a Gaelic term. Indeed the fact Aberdeen has a river called the Dee, like Wales, with the River Dee, in North Wales, is from similar Celtic route names for these rivers. There are other Celtic names, and very Welsh style Cumbric names, like Eccelfechan, near Lockerbie, whose origins seem to come from a similar term to the Eccles, or Eglwys names from Celtic England and Wales, and the fechan is similar origin to Llanfairfechan. There are lots of Cumbric (A language of the Britons similar to Welsh) names in Scotland, especially Strathclyde's areas.  Also nearby in the area not far from Dumfries and Gretna is Caerlaverock Castle, So a very British name area. Laverock is also Welsh. 

* Yes, Southern Scotland was called the Old North, Hen Godddedin, and indeed some ancient Welsh literary works were protected in those Northern Brythonic speaking kingdoms, and then taken to Wales in the Middle Ages, and protected in the abbeys of North Wales, like Aberconwy, so preserving historic records for both lands, by this teamwork. As they mention great Brythonic heroes. 

* North East Scotland has loads of those sorts of names as of the Picts, a language like Welsh, so places like Buchan are given Brythonic heritage reasonings for why the name is as it is. And as said elsewhere of course Aberdeen. Indeed Arbroath's other English language  name is Aberbrothock, Famous as the site of the Declaration of Arbroath. You know like Wales has Aberystwyth, Abergavenny, Abersoch, Aberteifi, Abergele, and much much more, like Aberteifi, 

* Indeed near to Edinburgh is Caerketton hill, a Brythonic name, and it has a hillfort called Caerketton. 345 metres or so above sea level, very roughly. It is to the south and very closeby.  

* In the 19th Century there was a Scottish football match of the Scoto - Welsh v the Scoto English, lots of Queens Park players were involved, it turns out it was just who the players were opposing in international friendlies, so 2 sets of Scotland players. 

* Both Scotland and Wales have had emmigration far and wide, to Brazil, Argentina, the USA, Canada, Australia, New Zealand, and of course England. 

* There was a rugby team called London Welsh from 1885 to 2017, which actually won some trophies, even the British and Irish second tier Up, and a rugby club called London Scottish which still exists, and won some trophies as well. 

* Both Scotland and Wales have a place called Queensferry, the one in Wales in Flintshire, right in the North East, while the one in Scotland, also called South Queensferry just west of Edinburgh. Both places have substantial bridges aside them now, the Forth crossing and the Dee crossing. As of course both Wales and Scotland have a River Dee.

* There is also a point of Ayr, which is on the coast in North East Wales, the most northern point in mainland Wales, and a town of Ayr in West Scotland.

* Both Scotland and Wales have Irish Sea coastlines.

* Both Scotland and Wales have structures famed as borders with England, for Wales, Offa's Dyke, and for Scotland, Hadrian's Wall.

* Both The Scots and Welsh have ferries to Ireland.

* In 2021 the Scottish snooker open, normally held in Scotland, was held in North Wales.

* Tennis player Cameron Norrie, has a Glaswiegan father and Cardiff mother. 

* A Scottish Antarctic expedition of the early 20th Century led by a gent called Coates, and full of Scottish people, which discovered a small part of the continent called Coates Land, and other stuff, well his parents were Scottish and Welsh. 

* You can see the Isles of Man from both on a very clear day, but only from some bits. You can very much more see North West England from both.

* Many people have been to both countries or known people from both, or been in one. 

* The capital of both, in Welsh starts with Caer, Caerdin, and Caerdydd, and both those are their own council areas. Both have ports by rivers. 

* Both these rivers sound like numbers, the Forth and Severn,  

* Alan Brasil scored for Scotland V Wales, once, and Wales is where Scotland have played a huge amount of games, winning some, and losing some, to Wales of course. I mean Twickenham.  

* When Wales hosted the Rugby world cup in 1999, some games were played in Murrayfield, and some in Galashiels. And some in London a few times of course. Actually Wrexham had some games.

* In theory, and on very rare days, it is possible to see some hills in Southern Scotland from Snowden's peak, but this is very rare, and they would be even smaller on the horizon, than those times you see the hills of Ireland, or the Isle of man, on the horizon from the coast of North Wales. I have seen Blackpool Tower from North East Wales hills. Very small in the distance. 

* Scotland and Wales have 3 letters the same. 

* Just over the border in Cumbria has lots of Brythonic sounding names, Cumbria, Carlisle, Penton to name a three. 

* Some Welsh Jacobite's joined the 1745 rebellion, and were severely punished for joining along with the Highland Jacobites. It was mainly a Scottish Highland rebellion. 

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* There are far more connections of course between Scottish Gaelic with Irish Gaelic, than with Welsh, though there are Pictish and Cumbric Brythonic influences that affected the Scottish version, including a small amount of terms. Indeed also the Scots English dialect or language, has only a small amount of Gaelic, influencing it, and even smaller amount of other Pictish or Cumbric / Welsh influences. That famous fact of there being a counting system used by shepherds in Cumbria that used Cumbric, had some same ones in Scotland. Some Gaelic words were influenced by Cumbric or Pictish as well. But the biggest word of similarity between Scots English and Welsh, is how potato became potato in English, but became Tatws in Welsh and tatties in Scots English, not from a pre English origin as we only got the potato here in the time after Walter Raleigh and co, but nice that the words developed into similar terms in the Celtic lands. In Irish Gaelic it is prartai, very important to their national story, all that sadnness, to do with Ireland terrible famine long ago, and in Scots Gaelic buntata. 

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* Aberdeen FC have the most Brythonic tradition in Scottish football I say, for a country that was officially a Gaelic land, as of replacing Pictish, as Aber, is a Pictish term, Dee, the River, is a common Brythonic name for a river, and Pittodrie, the stadium is a Pictish name. I proclaim Dun Barton the most Celtic, as of it being a Gaelic term for Fort of the Britons, and the  most Gaelic, Kilmarnock and C;lachnacuddin. The Most Scots, Banks o Dee, the most patriotic, Inverness Caledonian Thistle.  The most Iron Age name in all British football is Dinas Powys, the name of a area in Cardiff with a hillfort, and named after it, or vice versa is the hillfort and football team. Most Welsh teams have a Brythonic element to the name. 

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* So in Welsh the English, are called Saesneg, which kind of forms, from Saxons, while in Scotland, well the term English is used, but some like Private Frazer in Dad's army have used the term Saasanaech, it's a very rare term that is used, and is almost a derogatory term, though not actually offensive, indeed I have seen there are records of it being used in 1869, well before Dad's army, so it also comes from the term Saxons. Apparently it may also refer to speakers of English indeed in the 18th Century some Highlanders called English speaking Lowlanders it, so a Gaelic term originally then. Actually Cornish as Sowsnke, Manx with Sosnagh, and Irish Gaelic Saxanach a old term not much used, have similar terms that sounds like Saxon. Indeed in Breton it is Saozneg. 

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* William Wallace may have been so named as of Wales Walis. This may be as he had Norman such heritage who had lived in Wales or as he was from a Scots Gaelic or Scots English family that had recently been speaking Northern British AKA Welsh. There are many a people called Wallace, and even Welsh in Scotland today. Even a SNP MP, was a Mr Welsh and a 17th Century covenanter, John Welsh. 8ust like how Ingis is a Scottish name. Its some kind of origin name blah blah. 

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* Gwynedd was founded by a Northern British dynasty from Scotland, the Northern Britons. Many of their legends were kept alive in North Wales. Well that is the story anhow.

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* Scotland won the rugby 6 nations for Wales in 2021 beating France in the last game, and Wales won for Scotland in 1999 beating England with a Neil Jenkins penalty. If each had lost in games, which were being played as the last game of the tournament, then the losers of those 2 games, England and France, would have won the title..

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* Scottish aristocrats the Butes renovated Cardiff Castle, and Castell Coch, in the 19th Century. 

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* Keir Hardie, Scottish Labour icon, was elected MP for West Ham, but also Merthyr in South Wales. 

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* Scottish and Welsh PMs have led both countries, via the UK. Plus been major cabinet members. Such as Aneurin Bevan, and the NHS, and Gordon Brown the longest running chancellor in recent history to 2021 anyhow. Also Geoffrey Howe, Roy Jenkins, kind of Heseltine, and Home, to name  but a few, 

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* There was a Welsh conservative MP, on the left of the party Keith Raffan, who from 1983 to 1992 was  tory MP, for the rest of the century after that it was Labour held seat, but he was also a Liberal Democrat Scottish MSP from 1999 to 2005. 

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* Robert Owen, the famous social reformer, was a Welsh businessman, successful in England, who set up a utopian socialist factory and housing in Lanarkshire, Scotland in the early 19th century. 

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* Famous Scottish heritage UK PM, of the 19th Century William Gladstone was married to a Welsh woman. He was famed for the Midlothian campaign and his Wales born son played for Scotland in a unofficial Scotland England match in the early 1870sm which was really a Upper class English people, v Scottish heritage upper class people in London game. 

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* Logan the Scottish rugby player of the late 1990s was married to Welsh UK TV star Gabby Yorath, then Logan. The daughter of a former Wales manager. 

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* Both saw growth of nationalist movements Plaid Cymru and SNP from the 1960s, whose parties had began barely a decade apart in the 1920s and 1930s. Plus civic home rule movements from the mid and late 19th Century.  Plus a concurrent rise in the Gaelic and Welsh language's revivalism at that time as well, namely the .

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* Both had devolution referenda in the late 1970s, which lost Scotland unfairly in a way, as there was a slight majority for. Both had devolution referenda in 1997, which voted for devolution and elected bodies for each land. 

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* Scotland and Wales have been in the same union, via the union of the crowns, 1603,  the Act of Union between Scotland and England 1707, Britain's fight in World War Two, and World War One, (With allies)  and more, and our British membership of the European Union and EEC 1973- 2020, and United Nations and the fact we are all on one world, united in common humanity, citizen of the world style stuff. Plus membership of the Commonwealth, Council of the Isles, and Celtic League links. Plus the south of Scotland with Wales, was in the same Roman Empire, much earlier. Possibly they worked with each other, Gwynedd, and the Old North, in the Dark Ages as well.

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* Scotland and Wales have played each other well over 100 times in men's rugby union and football. Even from the 19th Century and into 2021. (This article was written in 2021)
 

* In Wales, political parties have the name Plaid in their name as it means, Party, so including Plaid Cymru, which is there name in English also, while in Scotland, plaid is used on Scottish kilts. A great Scottish national thing. 

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* Many top Welsh players have won honours in the Scottish league, and many Scottish players in the Welsh league, or for Welsh teams in the English Football league, indeed Jock Stein played in Wales for a while, and also passed away there, while managing Scotland in Cardiff for a vital world cup qualifier.  While Joe Ledley and more in Scotland. John Hartson won player of the year in Scotland in 2005, the only Welsh player up to now to, while Cardiff City's 1925 FA Cup winning side had 2 Scotsmen. Some Scotsmen playing for Welsh clubs in the Football League, have played for Scotland football, and some Welshmen playing for Scottish teams, for Wales. Plus Welsh internationals  Marley Watkins and Peter Nicholas for Aberdeen for example. 

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* The first international Rugby game at Rodney Parade was Scotland V Wales. 

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* Scotland have also played Wales many times in Netball, being a similar ability in European Competitions the 2nd and 3rd force most of the time in Europe. And have a same as each other smaller interest in Rugby League, than Northern England and Australia but have had national teams in the World Cup just like in Netball. Also in hockey Scotland and Wales have sides that do a similar level of competition. 

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* Welsh League teams have even played in the football Scottish Challenge cup of in the 2010s. It is a Scottish 2nd, 3rd, 4th and even 5th tier cup competition. They had Connah's Quay, TNS (Based in Oswestry, just over the border, in England, but not far from the still quite Welsh speaking in the 19th Century, bit of Oswestry, which was in Engand, but just over the Offa's Dyke divide (Unlike the stadium, which is east of it), and connected with Welsh village Llansantffraid, )) and Bala, and even from the English league, Wrexham.

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* Welsh is also a name in Scotland of a few people, sportsmen, like one who played for Scotland and a SNP MP, Andrew Welsh, who was one of 3 SNP MPs for a while in the 1990s. Also the famous Scottish writer, from Edinburgh,  Irvine Welsh. He wrote Trainspotting. There was even a Scottish player, with the surname Wales in the 200s, in the lower leagues. 

 

* While Scot is a common first name in both lands, such as Welsh rugby's Scott Quinnell, and Scott Gibbs. 

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* Plus some Scottish rugby internationals played for Cardiff. Like Luke Hamilton and Dan Parks. 

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* Newport has a place called Malpas, and Maurice Malpas was a great Dundee United player, 

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* Edinburgh has St Giles cathedral, while Wrexham, one of the most important churches in North Wales, has St Giles church. 

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* Some people called Southern Scotland, the Old North, in terms of Welsh identity as of its Brythonic language, as in Medieval times. 

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*  The Royal Welch is a gloried battalion, while Scotch, is a gloried drink. ch. ch.  

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In the late 1990s, with thy advent of professionalism in Rugby Union, to keep apace with the big professional teams from England, and France, then Scotland put Glasgow and Edinburgh in the cities and towns top tier of the Welsh Rugby league. As it was felt on their own there would not be enough money to have enough big teams. This lasted for 3 years before a Celtic league was established with Ireland's 4 provinces, and pretty soon a Welsh regional set up of a few super teams, and this saw the Celtic league  blossomed, with Welsh and Scottish and Irish teams winning. Also Italian and South African teams joined later. It is still going strong as a league in 2021. 

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* Plus 2 Wales football internationals up to 2023 were born in Scotland, and Scotland has had a rugby international with a Welsh surname, Thom Evans. 

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* The Montgomery Clan, which General Montgomery the Commander of the British army in World War Two, traces his roots from, moved from Wales, in terms of some of its roots, in the Middle Ages, to Scotland, one of those Norman families, recruited by the Scottish kings in the Medieval era, I would guess. 

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* In the post war era many Scottish doctors went to Wales. 

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* A late 1990s TV show, on Channel 4, had a Welsh and a Scottish guy, Nigel and a Steph presenting it, it was Called, Vids. 

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* And Scottish show the comedy Sketch show, Absolutely, on the same channel had a entirely Scottish cast, plus a Cornish lady and a Welsh man, 

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* Scotland and Wales, both saw Romans, Irish, Saxons, Vikings, Normans, Gypsies, and later groups arrive at similar times. Even Protestantism. So both have Gaelic, and Viking heritage and English, in their place lfordnames. Plus of course Brythonic. The Gaelic in Wales, is very minor and limited to minor loan words in the west. 

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* There are crannogs, in Ireland and Scotland plus 1 in Wales. Plus Wales and Scotland are famed for their castles, mountains, and even lakes, well less so Wales the last bit, but a bit. 

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* For a brief period in the late 1140s King David held Lancashire up to the Mersey, so at that stage from part of Scotland on many days you could see the Welsh coast, indeed in the 1140s the Welsh princes were raiding deep into Cheshire, so really there was a time that decade where the border between Scotland and Wales was somewhere in a county that was being raided by the Welsh, so almost in a sense there was a land link between Wales and Scotland. Indeed Glyndwr negotiated with English rebels, to expand Wales up to the Mersey, which never happened. 

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* In 1603 The Scottish Stuart dynasty took the throne of England, succeeding the Tudors, who as the name suggests had Welsh heritage.

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* When the millennium stadium hosted the English league cup Souness managed a team there one time, Blackburn, and Sullivan the Scotland goally was in goal for a team, and Fergusson managed Man U to a League Cup win there, and won a FA Cup there as well, Strachan lost one, as a manager. And Darren Fletcher played. Plus Colin Hendry played Bolton to a play off promotion to the elite there, and Moyes was the runner up, it was the first one there. Of the half decade played there. 

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* The name Stuarts or Stewarts refers to the fact the family were descended from important stewards, Walter Fitz Alan, from 1150, was high steward of Scotland, and the name came from there. Surely that power play got them into more power, and thus later by machinations and tribulations the throne. The Tudors were descended off many people, but one of the ones of major importance, the most important of the recent past for them on the Welsh side was Ednyfed Fychan, Seneschal to the Kingdom of Gwynedd, the last surviving native Welsh principality, a similar role to Steward, and he married a lady of royal Welsh South Walian bloodline, which later mixed with some of the high ups connected to claimants for the English throne, so a similar origin story in some ways. Indeed Ednyfed lived from 1170, to 1246, so a similar time to Walter. Though I wonder if all royal lines have some link like that, getting in at the foothills, and such like. 

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* Scotland and Wales had a similar economic history from Neolithic and its culture, to Industrialisation at the same time, with rural areas. Plus similar histories of urbanisation, Wales had less, Scotland had more, but so similar times for mass emigration in the 19th Century, though Wales had much less, as the industrialising areas could take the smaller amount of people. 

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* Both were similarly affected by UK government policies with England, in the 20th and 21st Century. 

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* Both have big bridges, The Severn Bridge and the Forth Bridges, 

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* Both have borders with Ireland and England. in terms of sea.  

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* Wales has point of Ayr in the North, and Scotland has the town of Ayr, 

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* In both the Celtic language is stronger in the west, and North West. 

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* In both there was a rapid decline in the Celtic language in the 19th Century,

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* In both, the largest island is in the north. 

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* Both have lakes or lochs or Llyns, that have people who claim a monster lives in them, Loch Ness, and Llyn Bala, 

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* Both have whisky industries, 

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* Thomas Telford, who was a Scottish son of a Shepherd, the proudest product you may say of the Scottish school system of his century for the mass of the population set up in the recent past for him, he designed in the 19th Century, or built Conwy Bridge, Menai Bridge and in England, the Ellesmere Canal, just over the border, and in Scotland he designed the Caledonian Canal, and harbour works in Aberdeen and Dundee, Highland Roads, and of course Plockton Parish church.  He designed the Pontyscyllte Aquaduct, and much of the road to Anglesey. The town of Telford in Shropshire was named after him, which is linked in ways with the Wrekin a sight that was likely a important base for a Dark Ages Welsh Kingdom in Shropshire. Unlike the the rest of England, which I would say Britons for, I would say by that time, you could maybe say as it was linked to Powys it was like a Greater Wales, rather than a depleted in size ancient Roman Britons territory. 

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* Ninian Park was the home of Wales only FA Cup winners, Cardiff City up to 2024, and it was named after Lieutenant-Colonel Lord Ninian Crichton-Stuart, the son of the Marquiss of Bute again, it was their home from 1910 to 2009, indeed in Edinburgh there are places with the name Ninian, as it is the name of a Pictish saint, though that saint may have been a Briton, from where it is unknown and the Britons were speakers of a Welsh style language. 

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* The Stonehenge blue stones were said to come from South West Wales, but 2024 research found they may come from North East Scotland. 

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* In 2024, Olympics, I am sure it has happened before, but Great Britain and Northern Ireland's 4 ​members of the Bronze winning team pursuit women's team, included a Scot and a Welsh woman. 

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* Both Scotland and Wales have many hillforts. 

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* Both have legends associated to their geography with Merlin and King Arthur, 

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* Both had large sheep and mining industries. 

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* Edinburgh and many Scottish cities are from Brythonic names, with some having other influences as well, like the Saxon influenced second half of the name. So like Cardiff with its more wholly Welsh Brythonic name. There used to be a belief it came from the name Edwin's fort, from the King of Northumberland, but most scholars say the name Eidin comes from the name of a Celtic tribe. Some say the legend of the Edwin name was rom the time of King David. 

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* Also, Scotland and Wales capital are both in the South East. Although also that is true of England, the UK, the Republic of Ireland, Northern Ireland, the largest city in All Ireland. the Isle of Man, Jersey, . But it is in the south west is Truro for Cornwall, and Paris is in North France. Guernsey's capital is in the east of the island, while Lerwick, of Scotland's Shetland Islands is in its south east. Kirkwall is in the middle.  Of Scotland's lands. As is Faeroe's Torshavn. While Brazil's Rio is in the south east, the former capital of South America's largest place. 

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Anyway long live peace, internationalism, and friendship between the nations, but also the lands of Scotland and Wales and their neighbours. I am sure there are more links than what I have stated above but that is all I am stating. I am sure it could be easy to paint a story of division as well, as some like to do, but I like this proud of your nationality love of internationalism way forward. Its called progress. 

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Interestingly on a different subject, Cornwall and Wales have some similar names like Gaer and Caer Bran in Cornwall, similar to Welsh names, and Cornwall has a Trelawne, like Wales Trelawnyd, then again, Cumbria has a Wigton, and not far away in Galloway there is a Wigton as well, and both are Olde English names. And what about all the Newports and Newcastles in Wales, England and even Australia and the USA. And Newquay is the name of places in Wales and Cornwall, on their western coasts. 

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Links between Scotland, Wales, Poland and Brazil, for example. 

Links  between Scotland and Poland include the fact that many Scottish migrants went there in the 17th Century, plus Bonnie Prince Charlie had Polish links. Links between Wales and Poland include the fact that the last king of Poland, Stanislaus 2 Augustus befriended a Welsh diplomat, also in 1949 a RAF base in Pwllheli was a base for a Polish community. Links between Scotland and Brazil include that a Scotsman Thomas Donohoe is said to have football to Brazil, in 1894. Plus Charles Miller, the son of a Scotsman, seems to have made the biggest actions there in spreading the sport. He was the son of a Scotsman and a Brazilian English lady. Also a Scotsman led the Imperial Brazilian Navy in 1823. Plus the Gracie family Scottish Brazilians were important in martial arts in Brazil. And a Scottish Brazilian was Carols Drummond de Andrade a great poet. Plus a Scottish Brazilian was a leading voice in the abolitionist movement. Plus Brazil sent troops to help Britain and the allies in World War Two. Plus Alan Brazil was A Scottish footballer, and Cowdenbeath's nickname is the Blue Brazil. And a Brazilian player Emerson scored for Rangers against Panathinaikos in the 2004 Champions League. Plus Andy Murray won a Gold in Brazil. at the Olympics, and Scotland have played Brazil 4 times in the world cup, drawing once. Alex Fergusson won his first Inter Continental Cup against a Brazilian side in 1999, Palmeiras, and Brazilian team Flamengo in 1981 beat Liverpool's  3 Scottish stars team for the same trophy in 1981. Plus 2 Brazilians were in the Real Madrid team, and 1 the Leverkusen team that played in the Hampden Champions League final of 2002. Links between Wales and Brazil include how Pele scored his first goal in the world cup v Wales in 1958, and there was a attempt at a Patagonia style colony in Brazil in 1852. Brazil lead 4 1 in matches between the countries in football, most of which of course were friendlies. Links between Brazil and Poland include how Brazil was the first Latin American country to recognise Polish independence in 1918. Plus Yellow is on the Scotland and Brazil flags, and blue. Plus red and white are on the Wales and Poland flags. And we all breathe the same air. Also a Switz Scottish connection is it created the form of Calvinism the Church of Scotland adopted. For Ireland it's links, so Celtic links with Brazil include the Isle of Brasil, of mythology, that are in written down legends, written by scholars. So a connection for Scotland as well really as of it's Gaelic culture. 

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