The Serbian trumpeter’s effort has the swift pace of a tricky winger … but also a slight tinge of the Benny Hill theme. Pleasant as a World Cup anthem, perhaps, but pretty underwhelming when I play it in my fantasy of getting on the end of a Christian Eriksen cross. Slap bass and Pet Shop Boys synths … this was written in 1986 for the Danish team’s Mexico World Cup sojourn, and you can tell. A Minha Casinha - Xutos & Pontapés (Portugal)Ī decades-old rock cover version of a song from a 1943 Portuguese comedy film … I mean, I know this is a tough gig but is this really the best the Portuguese Football Federation could come up with? 35. Photograph: Gianni Ferrari/Getty Images 36. Utterly unsuitable … Spain’s choice Raphael, in 1967. I’m telling you this boring fact because it is still more interesting than this song. The man I’m dubbing the Portuguese Peter Andre actually used to be a junior football player until a knee injury set him back. Vamos Com Tudo - David Carreira (Portugal) I’m not sure why Australia have bothered picking a reserve song as surely no other team are going to go with Men at Work’s Down Under? Anyway, the thought of this horrendous rock nonsense being inflicted on 60,000 people would sorely tempt me to sky the ball several feet over the bar. Could the lack of dynamism conjured up here by the Toronto rapper and his compatriot DJ be to blame? (No, but play along with me here.) 38. 30,000 Feet - NorthSideBenji & DJ Charlie B (Canada)Ĭanada had an astonishing 22 shots against Belgium in their opening game yet failed to score with any of them. It’s hard to imagine the office somewhere in Germany where someone uttered the words: “I know what we need for our 2022 World Cup goal celebrations: a 10-year-old song by that Canadian rock band everyone hates.” But apparently it happened. When We Stand Together – Nickelback (Germany) Some teams, including England and Wales, have picked two, a bit like having an away kit in case their opposing team have chosen the same song.īut which is the best tune? More importantly, which provides the necessary adrenaline rush while also inflicting further psychological pain upon the conceders? As some teams haven’t even played yet, let alone scored, the only way to work this out is to rank them in the most scientific way possible: me listening to them once while imagining that I have just scored a goal for said country at the World Cup final. Instead, they’ve asked each of the 32 competing nations to provide a song to be pumped around the arena any time they score. But Fifa know better, of course, and they’re clearly not satisfied with the mere sound of a crowd going wild. If you want to turn this into ice hockey, at least let the players have mass brawls on the pitch. To some of us traditionalists, goal music should be banned.
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