Football and Music

You know Romania could nick it here…

They were (in everybody’s eyes) doomed from the beginning when they were drawn into the group of death with Italy, France and Holland.

But with their performance (or France’s lack of) in the first match there is now an decent chance of them making it through to the knockout stages.

Italy are notoriously slow starters and even though they were stunned by the Netherlands I reckon they’ll still somehow manage to scrape it.

France on the other hand picked the curse that is Le Sulk and yet again when he plays, the team doesn’t. Anelka doesn’t play well with others you see. When he’s a partner up front with someone they don’t gel, they never get along. He’s a lazy striker, a goal hanger and poacher who doesn’t go looking for the ball. He’ll wait until it comes to him.

If he starts the next game then I can’t see France progressing.

Somehow this turned into a mini rant about Anelka when it should’ve been about the Romanian team and their chances. Back to the subject team then:

They don’t have any familiar (to us anyway) names in their ranks right now, but neither did Greece four years ago.

I don’t think they will or can go all the way, but there’s always one team in the competition that nobody expects to go anywhere and Romania may be that team.

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Some music about them and a song known only as a Romanian anthem for Euro 2008. No other info found about this.

» Romanian Anthem for Euro 2008

It’s bugging me now. What is it ?

*Ahem*   Sorry…

I spotted something in relation to the current European Champions and a video posted online.

I was searching for anything footieandmusical about Greece and found only one thing.

It was via a Greek television station’s section on Daily Motion.

Sport 24 TV have added the vid below which has a tune which I’m sure, near certain that is it a Greek language version of a famous song. But what is the song..?

Video:

Audio:

» Unknown Artist - Song of Greece

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I know it. I do. But I can’t name that tune right now.

Can you ?

UPDATE: Thanks to Bill posting his comment with extra info:
“The artist is Fillipos Pliatsikas and the name of the song is ‘an tha mporousa ton kosmo tha allaza’(if i could change the world).”

I still think it’s a Greek language cover version of a famous song, but still can’t think of where I’ve heard it before.

Today it is the turn of…

Like yesterday because I don’t speak the language I don’t have much info about each one.
I can say that all of the songs are very listenable though.

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Gülben Ergen is a popular singer and sometimes actress. This is a very traditional influenced sound:

» Gülben Ergen (feat. Ege Cubukcu) - Avrupa video

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Sercan is a Turkish singer living in Dortmund. In this one he has the elements of a perfect football/music song with a crowd, some commentary from a match and a chant thrown in there. I like the driving, danceable beat on this one, very catchy:

» Sercan feat Levoe Mevcut - Turkiyem (Milli Mars Euro 2008) video

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Muhabbet is another German based (Berlin this time) Turkish singer. He one is again like Sercan’s above, very catchy. It also has the crowd and the commentary. I like this one too:

» Muhabbet - Oh Milli Takim Ole Ole 2008

Carrying on with the songs released by each country in relation to their Euro 2008 appearance…

I want to post items from every team playing but there are limits with time and with some of them not bothering to knock out a tune (case in point the other day with the co-host Austria.)

Today’s team is Poland, who will also be co-hosting at the next Euro Finals in 2012 - they’ll be staging it together with the Ukraine.

Thomas Dunmore of If This Is Football discusses why Poland and Ukraine got these finals. Which I’ve also read that Scotland may have to step in because apparently Platini went over to Poland and wasn’t happy with the stadiums and infrastructures so it might have to be moved.

Anyhoddles, that’s for other sites to discuss. We are here for the music…

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The first one I found is a Polish rap song.

Well the Swiss had one, why not Poland ?

Unfortunately I don’t know anything else about this one apart from it’s about Poland and their Euro 2008 appearance. I found it via this video on Metacafe.

Listen:

» Unknown Artist - Polish Rap Song

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Here is another one I don’t really know much about. It needed some Google translating to gather some info from the video.

The beginning of the translation says:

“Nagralismy this for us and for Bialoczerwonych - czulismy showed after what we zaserwowala tepsa with pzpnem … We believe that ye sing with us!

contractor: bia?oczerwoni feat [Chris] & Liber

/ / Music: krzysztof ‘Vicky’ novikov & krzysztof ‘chris’ antkowiak
/ / Words: ?ukasz ‘lucasik’ krzywa?nia & marcin ‘open’ piotrowski

Welcome to http://www.hymneuro2008.pl - legal MP3 download! “

» The full text translated.

Listen:

» Bialocerwoni - hymn kibicow polskich na Euro 2008

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Next up is Maryla Rodowicz, a popular Polish singer who’s doing the official song for Poland for Euro 2008.

Again I’ve done a Google Translation of the text added to the video on YouTube and it says…

“It is a well-known song “Football” Maryla Rodowicz, which was formed on the occasion of the world championships in 1974. Work is, however, przearan?owany. — On mundialu in 1974, Poles took third, so this song bodes well - said the PZPN president Michal Listkiewicz.

The author of the current, the new arrangement is Andrzej Smolik, and the star performers of Polish music scene: Kayah, Katarzyna Kurzawska, Sebastian Karpiel-Bu?ecka and Piotr Cugowski.”

» Maryla Rodowicz - Futbol

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And finally…

On a related subject: I posted something the other day in which I asked which team will you adopt for Euro 2008. Rupert Slade chose Poland since he worked there for a few years - and he wrote a song to show his support.

Now he and his mates have created a short video to accompany the song:

…then.

» An update on one I posted the other day:

Mario Alaimo created some music in which he used a bit of Mozart mixed in some footie commentary and audio of the draw for the finals taking place. He submitted this to UEFA for them to use as a theme somewhere but they passed on it, so we adopted it as the official theme for our Euro 2008 coverage.

There’s now a video to accompany the song which you can view below:

You can find more about Mario and other stuff via http://www.scissorproductions.com/
Thanks to Jennie for contacting me. Now stop emailing !