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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Category: World Football

Tags: Artur Boruc, Bayern Munich, Celtic, Darren Fletcher, Francesco Totti, Germany, Inter, Italy, Lukas Podolski, Manchester United, Roma, Scotland, Sweden, World Football, Zlatan Ibrahimovic

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

  
  
  

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

  Posted from Malaysia

  

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

  
  
  

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

  Posted from Malaysia

  

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

  
  
  

  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”

  Posted from Germany

  

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

  
  
  

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

  Posted from United States

  

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

  
  
  

  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.)

  Posted from United States

  

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

  
  
  

  “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

  Posted from United States

  

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

  
  
  

  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!

  Posted from Singapore

  

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

  
  
  

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

  Posted from United States

  

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