In 1905 the trained electrical mechanic, specialising in cinema equipment, was lured by career prospects to join Sport Club Germânia, today's EC Pinheiros in São Paulo, Brazil.
Hans Nobiling, a player of Germania, emigrated in the late 19th century to Brazil where he was instrumental in founding two of the four oldest football clubs of the country, which became in 1938 part of São Paulo FC, three times world cup winner, and EC Pinheiros, considered as the maybe biggest sports club of the southern hemisphere, both clubs winning a total of four State Championships of São Paulo