Searching for the Best Footballer Song

By: chris | September 10th, 2008

I had the good fortune of rediscovering the infamous German song about Lukas Podolski last night. And then again this morning in the shower. And on the treadmill. And every goddamn 5 minutes inside my head since then. It reminded me of all the awesome and utterly horrendous songs about footballers we’ve been afforded over the years. And I don’t mean choruses heard in the stands. I mean actual, full-length songs like the ones after the jump.

Zlatan Ibrahimovic – Zuperman.


Darren Fletcher – Proclaimers.


Francesco Totti – Anche Io Sono Francesco.


Artur Boruc – The Holy Goalie.

So are there enough out there to launch an Offside Football Player Eurovision? How many notable songs are we missing?



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  • lem |  September 10th, 2008 at 7:54 am

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    I humbly submit Die Prinzen’s Olli Kahn: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AXeG-zksCsY

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  • lem |  September 10th, 2008 at 7:58 am

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    Oh! And Don Fardon’s tribute to George Best, Belfast Boy: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ti3q9ZM3rK8

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  • Tom |  September 10th, 2008 at 8:51 am

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    This little Swedish brat has this song that got stuck in my head for half of the World Cup:
    http://de.youtube.com/watch?v=3fRNIdZe05I

    Zlatan Ibrahimovich: “Who’s da man”

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  • Johonna |  September 10th, 2008 at 8:57 am

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    CURSE YOU CHRIS! and your horribly catchy incomprehensible songs! (you will have to imagine the shaking fist)

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  • Laurie |  September 10th, 2008 at 9:03 am

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    Lem, thanks so much for mentioning the Olli Kahn song — I get a serious ear worm every time I think of it.

    Dammit, dammit, DAMMIT, guess what I’m going to be singing all day!

    (And I don’t speak German.)

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  • Juliet |  September 10th, 2008 at 9:24 am

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    “Goldi Poldi, hallelujah! There is a football god.” Ahhh… he’ll have a song all ready for his new club to sing to him when he hightails it out of Munich.

    Another, less excellent but more annoying, song about Kahn: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zgre5-0EObw

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  • diana |  September 10th, 2008 at 9:46 am

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    chris! This is the first time I know about the Lukas Podolski song. Damn, it’s ringing in my head non-stop.

    ‘“Goldi Poldi, hallelujah! There is a football god.” Ahhh… he’ll have a song all ready for his new club to sing to him when he hightails it out of Munich.’
    Agreed, Juliet. ;) I have to admit, that is my favourite line. I once play ‘Battle Hymn Of The Republic’ on the piano (this was when I used to take piano lessons) and it’s all coming back to be me now…argh! :P

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  • Abby |  September 10th, 2008 at 3:15 pm

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    The Wedding Present had a whole album called George Best, although nothing in it was about him.

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