They borrowed chants from wherever they could find them, their diverse backgrounds meaning they hungrily gobbled up the best influences from South America and Europe.īut The Wall is different. Indeed the ubiquitous Vamos chant appears at nearly all MLS stadiums, introduced to MLS by the first generation of American fans. SoccerCast: Learn About How "La Grande Victoria" Was Createdīut where did it come from? Much of the chants in the American soccer landscape are borrowed interchangeably from club to club. The song sticks in your head, the chorus is catchy and it’s verse perfectly sums up the passion and pride of supporting your local team from it’s humble beginnings. The Wall sing it at the start of every game, with it’s Spanish intro and English verse and chorus, it perfectly matches the multicultural nature of our city. You may have heard it coming from the South End on game days. So what is Orlando City’s anthem? Some people would tell you it’s La Grande Victoria. The team rallied and won on penalties, in one of the most remarkable soccer games of all time. 3-0 down at halftime, the team emerged for the second half expecting a chorus of boos, but were greeted by the 30,000 Liverpool fans who had travelled to Istanbul with the “loudest and most emotional” rendition of You’ll Never Walk Alone the Liverpool skipper had ever heard.
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Indeed Steven Gerrard credited YNWA with Liverpool’s remarkable comeback in the Champions League Final in 2005. The great football anthem is about the joining together of voices to create a whole, it’s a choir lending its voices for a common purpose, to display a sense of community and to push the team on to victory. It was ingrained in the club long before the Hillsborough disaster in 1989 in which 96 Liverpool fans lost their lives, when the song took on a deeper meaning for fans grieving their loved ones.
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Liverpool of course have You’ll Never Walk Alone, the embodiment of the perfect football song, so thoroughly part of the club’s DNA that it’s lyrics appear on the crest. Stoke City have Delilah, and West Ham have I’m Forever Blowing Bubbles.
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For Bayern Munich it’s Stern Des Südens (Star of the South).