Brazil and Argentina are two of the best teams in the world, so they are guaranteed to be at the top, which leaves everyone else vying for the other two spots. Chile has a new coach for their national team and is hoping that they will make it this year.
A friend tried to get us tickets to today’s game in Santiago between Chile and rivals Peru. But the tickets were sold out. Instead, the boys donned their Chile soccer shirts and we headed to a restaurant that was showing the game. It was a great game and Chile won 2-0.
After the game, as we walked home, we saw this group of fans in the Plaza de Armas. They were waving Chile flags and shouting slogans like, “He who doesn’t jump is from Peru!” (It’s more rhythmic in Spanish) So we jumped, of course. Here’s a picture of the kids in the Plaza, showing the score with their fingers.
Soccer trivia: When we were planning to go to the game, I tried to hide from Amy this fact from Jacob’s copy of the Guiness Book of World Records: the worst soccer riot happened after a game between our neighbors Argentina and Peru in Lima. 318 people were killed and 500 injured.
