It's soccer-mania around here lately. Croatian flags hanging from apartment windows, attached to cars, people wearing the typical Croatian red and white checkered soccer jerseys all around town...it's total mania around here! It's sort of a fun atmosphere. One Croatian explained it to me saying that in the 90's they had the war that gathered Croatians and made them root together as one nation...now they have soccer. Soccer is life around here. Everyone plays. Everyone watches. When Croatia scores a goal, firecrackers and gun shots are heard around the city...horns are honking, people are shouting. Someone also told me a pretty shocking statistic...they estimate that approximately 50% of Croatians during the European Championship this month have either taken sick leave from their jobs, taken their vacation time, or have quit their jobs. That's some soccer passion! (Direct that passion at Jesus, and you got yourself a pretty freakin' radical group of people!)
On Sunday Croatia won 1-0 verses Austria and tonight (Thursday) they'll play Germany. Go Croatia!
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