25%of Germans Not Interested in World Cup:
With only 10 days before the inaugural World Cup match between hosts Germany and Costa Rica, some 25 percent of Germans expressed their lack of interest in watching the upcoming 64-game football tournament, according to an opinion poll released by the Hamburg-based BAT research institute.

Among those questioned, some 34 percent of women and 21 percent of men said they could care less about the mega football event, to be staged in 12 German cities from June 9 through July 9.

A total of 2,000 people took part in the survey.

In Costa Rica, it is entirely another thing. It is almost impossible to find someone who is not planning to sit out the game. In fact, the government is giving public employees off the morning of the opening game, and just as many private sector employees are expected to join in.

The game time is at 10:00am local time in Costa Rica.