There’s nothing like a Hitler speech to get you pumped up before a game

Back when I was in high school I used to crank up the 8-track and listen to Lionel Ritchie songs before a big game. For me, there was no better way to get fired up to sit on the bench and hand out water for 90 minutes. Motivational tactics have changed a bit since my day. In North Carolina, the Charlotte Catholic boy’s high school soccer team was warming up for playoff game in Gastonia against Forestview High School when something slightly unusual was heard playing over the stadium’s PA System: a 90 seconds of a speech from Adolf Hitler.

Forestview principal Robert Carpenter was quick to issue an apology explaining that the team’s coach, David Schearer, had given the team a motivational slogan at the start of the season, “On to Victory”.

“Sometime back, coach Shearer and the team started using `On to victory’ as a slogan,” Carpenter wrote. “We have a German exchange student on our team. He taught our students to say it in German. Some of our more zealous students sought to capture this slogan in German and to play it on the PA. They copied it from a speech by Hitler but could not just copy the `On to victory’ and got too much of the speech.”

Forestview won the match against Charlotte Catholic and will next conquer Poland, France and Norway before losing to Russia in the final round.

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