Olaria Atlético Clube

The Olaria Atlético Clube is a sport association from the same district in the north of the city of Rio de Janeiro, was established on 1 July 1915 as Japonês Futebol Clube ( "Japanese football club "), but still renamed in the same year in order to reach a wider audience. The club is known primarily for its football department.

The club took in 1974 and 1979 at the national football championship of Brazil part. In 1960 he won the Torneio Início of Rio de Janeiro.

Attention became the club as the world star Garrincha, one of probably the best footballer of all time, 1972 could end his career here. In 1965 joined the national team Décio Esteves in his last season for Olaria, then descended straight to the second division of Rio, at. For the youth of the Association of World Player of 1994, Romário comes. Brazil's four-time World Cup goalkeeper Castilho also began his career at Olaria.

The official ranking of the Brazilian Football Federation ( CBF → ranking) takes the club at the beginning of 2008, with 40 points the 134th rank.

Stadium

The club plays its home games at located in the quarter Olaria club's Estádio Mourão Filho Vieira is on but which in practice usually only named after its location on Rua Bariri. The 12,000 capacity stadium was inaugurated in April 1947 with a game between Fluminense and Vasco da Gama, which won the former with 4:3. Friaça of Vasco scoring the first goal.

A record crowd of 18,000 spectators saw on 30 April 1997 3-1 success over Flamengo Bangu AC at the state championship in Rio de Janeiro.

The stadium is considered one of the more important stages of Rio de Janeiro and is also frequently used by other clubs.

Other sports

Besides football, Olaria also operates divisions for futsal, karate, judo, basketball, swimming and soccer button ( Futebol de botão ).

Basketball

The women of the Olaria AC were 1976 and 1978 National Champion of Rio de Janeiro.

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