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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  • The Wedding Present had a whole album called George Best, although nothing in it was about him.
  • 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
  • Juliet
    "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...
  • 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.)
  • CURSE YOU CHRIS! and your horribly catchy incomprehensible songs! (you will have to imagine the shaking fist)
  • Tom
    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=...

    Zlatan Ibrahimovich: "Who's da man"
  • lem
    Oh! And Don Fardon's tribute to George Best, Belfast Boy: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v...
  • lem
    I humbly submit Die Prinzen's Olli Kahn: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v...
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