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Olaria Football: Fighting the Odds

By Robbie Blakeley, Contributing Sports Reporter

RIO DE JANEIRO, BRAZIL - After Olaria's monumental effort in this year's Taça Rio, in which they narrowly fell to Vasco da Gama on this past Saturday evening, it is time to look closer at the blue and white corner of Rio that came so close to emulating their success in the 1961 Taça Guanabara. For many new to Rio, the name Olaria may not conjure images of football (soccer), but they have a . . .

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