Germany plays Argentina this Tuesday. That should be one hell of a good game! The winner could go all the way. Argentina struggled against Mexico though, something I didn't expect.

This has been the first World Cup I have really paid attention to. Every game is televised here, and when the Costa Rican team played, many schools and most businesses closed or didn't open till after the game. Those that didn't, brought in TVs. Pity they played so badly, though the loss to Germany was at least a good game.

Kind of nice to be able to take my mind off of peak oil, climate change, Iraq and other endless resource wars, the incompetent/corrupt government in the US, the looming US economic collapse, and all the other doomer stuff for a few weeks. It has been a refreshing vacation. Soccer will survive post peak. It's the people's game. All it takes to play is a ball and a field.

Johns in Costa Rica

Yeah I love that about soccer, it's the people's sport. Very very little in the way of equipment needed.