Goal anthem
A goal hymn , also a torsong or goal music , English: Goal song or Goal tune , is a jingle of around 20 to 40 seconds that is played in sports such as football , handball or ice hockey after a goal has been scored by the home team.
Soccer
Goal anthems have been played in football since the 1970s. Individual clubs use commissioned compositions, such as Borussia Dortmund , while others use excerpts from well-known rock or classic productions. In the German professional football sector, most clubs currently use a goal anthem, one of the few exceptions that deliberately does not use one is 1. FC Union Berlin .
Some clubs also play goal anthems for a specific goal scorer, often with reference to the player's name or certain characteristics. One example of this is the song Laut by Finger & Kadel for striker Benjamin Lauth . Other players of Hamburger SV have been awarded personal gate hymns, such as Hit the Road, Jack ( Go away, Jack ) for the then willing to change Rafael van der Vaart . At Eintracht Frankfurt , a special goal anthem was even created for striker Ioannis Amanatidis . Franck Ribéry's goals at Bayern Munich were also occasionally acclaimed with the French song Les Champs-Elysées .
The song Bro Hymn is used by both VfB Stuttgart and the Dutch club Vitesse Arnheim . In the Scottish and English leagues, the song Chelsea Dagger by the Scottish band The Fratellis is an often played goal anthem, for example at Celtic Glasgow . In the English league the song was used by Chelsea FC , in the Australian league it was used by Sydney FC .
In addition, the advertising jingles of the respective main sponsor were sometimes played as the goal anthem. Sun played Fortuna Dusseldorf in 1993 and Borussia Monchengladbach a year later the song A beautiful day by the then sponsor Diebels .
Liam Harrison, an Irish musician and songwriter, had a number one hit in Ireland with his group Goal Celebrities in 1990 with the goal anthem Give It A Lash Jack , composed for Jack Charlton , the Irish national coach.
ice Hockey
Goal anthems are also played in handball and ice hockey. In ice hockey, the goal anthem used to be recorded by an organist, but today this type of goal anthem is not very common. For example, Kölsche Jung von Brings (only rarely Viva Colonia von den Höhnern ) is played as a goal anthem by the Kölner Haien , while the Löwen Frankfurt have been playing the Zillertal Wedding March for a long time .
The American ice hockey team New York Rangers play the song Slapshot at home games at Madison Square Garden . The song was composed by Ray Castoldi, the music director of Madison Square Garden. An often used goal anthem in ice hockey is the song Bro Hymn by the group Pennywise . The Anaheim Ducks , the Philadelphia Flyers (up to the playoffs of the 2010/2011 season) and the Springfield Falcons use the song.
Other sports
The use of a goal anthem is also common in other ball sports, such as water polo or handball. In handball, for example, the song Ladioo was played. In German American football, too, there are sometimes “goal anthems”, but here mostly only after a touchdown by the home team, but not with a field goal . For some time now, the Dresden Monarchs have been hearing "let's twist again" after every Monarchs touchdown.
Individual evidence
- ↑ Josef Engels: Shalalaaa-lalaaa-lalaaa-laaa. Die Welt , April 23, 2004, accessed November 6, 2014 .
- ↑ Martin Sonnleitner: Van der Vaart willing to change: "The HSV is a super club". Der Spiegel , August 19, 2007, accessed November 6, 2014 .
- ↑ The goal anthems of the HSV professionals. Rheinische Post , accessed on November 6, 2014 .
- ↑ Bundesliga - The official website. The Bundesliga , archived from the original on July 20, 2012 ; Retrieved July 11, 2009 .