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When the team started to beat the big ones, the other clubs joined and tried to apply a coup. They prohibited illiterate people from participating in the games. Vasco had to hire teachers to teach most of its players how to write the names to fill in the score sheet. Vasco was one of the first Brazilian teams to pay wages to its players, thus being able to count on low-income people on the team. This was only possible in the 1920s because the players were registered as employees of Portuguese warehouses installed in Rio de Janeiro, fans of the team, since, as it was still an amateur sport, it was forbidden to pay salaries to football players.
