It is easy to feel detached from the World Cup in Raleigh.
With the closest international soccer games a six-hour drive away in Atlanta and much of the craze about the Carolina Hurricanes Stanley Cup win, an event that is practically unavoidable in most of the U.S. has become easy to miss in the Triangle.
But sitting at the corner of a mostly residential street, just west of the train tracks that separate some of the most bustling parts of downtown Raleigh from the rest, Olé Sports Bar & Lounge has become an enclave for soccer fans this summer…