this diehard ardor is a part of the joy and pleasure of the game - indeed, only cariocas are able to talk negatively about the game, and often if an outsider makes a critical comment on either side of the debate, both parties will jump in to defend the game in general.

'it all ends in pizza' is a traditional brazilian saying which captures the spirit of the carioca football game neatly - this phrase originates from a period in the 1960s when a são paulo football team was in crisis.

after hours of discussion and rumination all parties threw differences to the wind and congregated over shared pizza - tensions in carioca football tend to vanish like tears in the wind, revealing in their wake a shared passion for a beautiful sporting recreation.