That the World Cup is a battle of the brands is long-accepted wisdom, but did you know it is also a battle of the bands? Now the first round of matches has finished, we’ve heard all 32 anthems, an ...

World Cup winners and incredible goals are often what we reminisce about from previous tournaments, but there’s also another that hits a different tune in our nostalgia: anthems. The first official ...

Every two years, around the time the World Cup and Euro tournaments, football songs waft out of the radio in increasing frequency, comforting reminders of decades of elusive victory. The whole point ...

These are the tracks officially adopted by FIFA for each soccer tournament since 1990. By Griselda Flores Senior Editor, Latin The World Cup was inaugurated in 1930, but it wasn’t until 1990 that the ...

If you’re watching the tape-delayed coverage of Olympic sports, you might be wondering: Why do those national anthems, ours included, have so little to do with the true culture of the countries they ...

Never choose a national anthem while angry. While most leaders understand that a national song should include peaceful imagery, some just never got the memo. How else to explain national anthems that ...

One thing that always seems to unite everyone remotely interested in the internationally divisive World Cup is the official song; partly because you’ll hear it approximately 300 times over the next ...