Football “Major Tom”
National team with new goal anthem for the first time
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If Florian Wirtz meets again, Peter Schilling’s hit from 1982 will accompany the celebration
Source: dpa/Christian Charisius
During the German national team’s test match against Holland today, a new goal anthem will be heard if the DFB team scores a goal. A hit from the Neue Deutsche Welle era is played. With the lightning adjustment of the goal music, the DFB is responding to an online petition.
Fans of the German national soccer team are allowed to celebrate goals in the test against the Netherlands “completely independently”. As Sport1 first reported, after an online petition with numerous supporters, there is a new anthem for goals scored by the German national team in the game this Tuesday evening (8:45 p.m., in the sports ticker at WELT). The Neue Deutsche Welle hit “Major Tom” by Peter Schilling is played as requested by many fans and was heard after the German national team’s first goal in the 11th minute by Maximilian Mittelstädt.
By the time the petition was closed, almost 70,000 votes had been collected. The last time the song “Kernkraft 400” by Zombie Nation was played at DFB goals was voted on by the fans in a vote by the German Football Association in mid-2019.
The song will not be heard at the European Championships
“Major Tom” has recently been heard a lot in connection with the national team because the song is played in the Adidas advertising videos for the new jerseys. Clips then appeared on social media in which past goals by the DFB selection were accompanied by the song. In the chorus of the 1982 song, the spaceship “floats completely weightless” and “completely detached from the earth.”
However, the song is unlikely to be used for German goals at the upcoming European Championships. According to information from the German Prese Agency, the goal jingles at the Euro are the same for all teams and are part of the official song for the 2024 European Championship. In addition, the participating national associations can submit suggestions for songs for the warm-up and after the final whistle.
