SAO PAULO (Reuters) - A century of samba football, which began when an English team turned up unexpectedly in Rio de Janeiro in 1914 and took on a cobbled-together 'Brazil' side, was remembered in a celebratory match at the same stadium on Sunday.
Exeter City were the team 100 years ago, on an unlikely tour of Argentina and just weeks before the outbreak of World War One, when they stopped off in Rio.
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