Soccer Songs

[Bort]

Seeing the World Cup Section of the iTunes Essentials inspired me to make everyone post their favorite soccer or "football" songs.

I personally enjoy many songs from the FIFA 2005 Soundtrack but mostly:

Beautiful Goal : Paul Oakenfold

Even though they are not soccer songs...

Sorcerary : Future Funk Squad

Brooklyn is Burning : Head Automatica

Augen Auf! : Oomph!

These songs always get me ready and pumped for my soccer games or help for just getting me in a soccer mood. Post your own favorites!

[Dan D]

Herbert Grönemeyer, Buchheim's alter ego Leutnant Werner in the movie "Das Boot" has written a homage to his hometown "Bochum". This song is traditionally sung here in the stadium before games of the football club "Vfl Bochum 1848" and it always gives me a shiver.
Bochum is part of the "Ruhrpott", the industrial heart of Germany along the Ruhr river, that has more people than e.g. New York in comparison. The first football teams here were founded by coal mine workers who in their rare free time grabbed the ball to do some physical exercises in the fresh air. This connection to the age of coal and steel may explain why people here associate football more with work than with art.
However, on Saturday's the whole region is breathing football and everything else comes to a halt. The colours of the local club are flying everywhere and the neighbour town, the football rival, is declared a "forbidden town". Even the poodles wear football shirts on Saturdays and it is not unusual when newborn babies get registered for the football club first, and then, when this is done, the baby gets baptised.


Here is an English translation ot the song:

"Deep in the West,
where the sun is dusty,
it is much better than one thinks
deep in the West,
deep in the West

You are no beauty
all gray from work
you love yourself without makeup
you're an honest sort
unfortunately totally congested
but that's just what makes you

You have a pulse of steel
one hears it (beating) loudly in the night
you're simply too modest
your mine gold
has lifted us up again
you flower in the coal fields

Bochum
I come from you
Bochum
I'm fond of you
"Good luck", Bochum
("Glück auf", German miners greeting)

You're no metropolis
on your Königsallee
there are no fashion shows (as in Düsseldorf)
here, where the heart still counts
not big money,
who wants to live in Düsseldorf

Bochum...

You are a home for pigeons
and constantly on coke
your summerhouse is an allotment garden
with your one-two pass you make
every opponent all wet
you and your VFL (Bochum 1848)

Bochum...."