Wednesday we went to see the United States play Costa Rica in soccer. It was amazing and super intense. All the girls bought Costa Rican soccer jerseys because we are in Costa Rica and they were only like 5 bucks. Jillian and I went to a soccer, excuse me futbol, store and asked if they had Costa Rican jerseys. The guy literally laughed at us and told us that Costa Rica was going to win. So anyways, we met at the University to take our bus over. All the guys in our group either decorated shirts or painted their chests in support of the good ol USA. Even though all the girls were wearing Costa Rica jerseys, we were still cheering for the United States, so we painted our faces. It was probably confusing to other people because it looked like we were cheering for both teams.
Our bus dropped us off a little ways from the stadium, so we got to walk through all the crazy people. They even had cops on horses. It was quite the event. Once we made it inside, they have us boom sticks, which is probably a bad idea for college students, but whatever. We got to the game around 6:30 even though it didn't start until 8, but there were tons of people there already. The seats are first come first serve, so we were in the nosebleeds. Somehow we got shoved into a section of Americans, which was probably a very good choice. I didn't feel unsafe there or anything, well except for the stadium which I'm pretty sure will crumble in a few years, but it was nice to be around Americans to sing the Star Spangled Banner and such. We even met a guy who went to Miami. It was funny being in a group of Americans because the Americans were the only ones who stood throughout the whole game. The Costa Ricans sat. We should have followed their lead.
It was tons of fun before the game started cheering and everything, but then Costa Rica scored two goals in the first 16 minutes. That was not so fun. Finally in the last few minutes of the game, the US got a penalty kick and scored the only goal of the game. Needless to say we lost 3-1.
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