The World Cup of World Cup 2025 songs live!
You join us for the inaugral Guardian World Cup of World Cup songs. The idea is simple, we’ll put each country’s World Cup song up against each other and you, the reader, can vote on which should go through to the next round. We’ll hopefully end up with a final that will lead us to this year’s best/least worst World Cup for the sake of everyone’s sanity, we have weeded out some entries already and we’ll start at the quarter-final stage. England’s song, which may as well have been called Will This Do? has already been quietly shelved by – perhaps because it was basically Take That’s Greatest Day but sung by the likes of Gary Lineker. That and it was dreadful. So that won’t be among the runners today. Instead, Italy will be the sole representatives from Group D. From Group A, Brazil go through and so do Croatia. From Group B, we’ll be enjoying Spain’s official song and Chile’s unofficial one, largely because it is funny. Group C – through a combination of not releasing anything official (Colombia can’t really count except Shakira’s execrable World Cup anthem) and nothing particularly good unofficially – are basically disqualified. Group D we know about: Italy. No side from Group E, lamentably, have released anything either officially or unofficially good enough with the French Football Federation rather huffily stating: “Following numerous songs released in recent days on the theme of the World Cup in Brazil, the FFF wishes to clarify that it will not bestow on any of them the title of official anthem of the France team."Group F’s Argentina do not have an official anthem, but they do have an unofficial one featuring Maradona – which is good enough for us. Bosnia go through too on the strength of rapper Ante Cash’s effort Vatreni Zmajevi. Group G, despite Wiyaala’s unofficial Go Go Black Stars effort in aid of Ghana unfortunately miss out on a last eight place to that leaves the quarter final draw as:ArgentinaBelgiumBosniaBrazilChileCroatiaItalySpainPutting that through a random draw generator gives us our fixtures:Croatia v SpainBosnia v ItalyBrazil v ArgentinaBelgium v ChileLet’s do battle!
This article is provided courtesy of The Guardian
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