Men's Football UEFA European Championship 2024

[heywoodu 15,141]

Oh damn.

[thepharoah 2,405]

Big Shaq  legend of Swiss football 

[hckošice 14,829]

Goal assist for Ralston

[heywoodu 15,141]

Just now, Roamingrover86 said:

Het wilhelmus  ain’t that bad either. Flower of scotland has very passionate lyrics & highly emotional. But there are other anthems which are equally good if not better

It depends on your preferences of course. Flower of Scotland for me is probably number one: it's truly a fighting song, not so old it makes no sense anymore (the Dutch), not just some lame 'our country is the best' thing (USA), just generating a feeling of 'lets go!'. And for singing along, it has a perfect pace, not too fast for example, and indeed, full of emotion  

 

I would honestly not want the Dutch anthem to change, but I definitely only like it because I grew up with it and any replacement would not get remotely close to giving the same feeling....if I wasn't Dutch, I'd find it...meh  

[heywoodu 15,141]

Nicely defended, Scotland.

 

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[hckošice 14,829]

Just now, heywoodu said:

Nicely defended, Scotland.

 

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like a good old leaky swiss cheese

[heywoodu 15,141]

1 minute ago, hckošice said:

like a good old leaky swiss cheese

That makes me think of some cheese with some sort of non-descript liquid leaking out of it and now I am properly disgusted, thanks.

[Roamingrover86 856]

1 minute ago, heywoodu said:

It depends on your preferences of course. Flower of Scotland for me is probably number one: it's truly a fighting song, not so old it makes no sense anymore (the Dutch), not just some lame 'our country is the best' thing (USA), just generating a feeling of 'lets go!'. And for singing along, it has a perfect pace, not too fast for example, and indeed, full of emotion  

 

I would honestly not want the Dutch anthem to change, but I definitely only like it because I grew up with it and any replacement would not get remotely close to giving the same feeling....if I wasn't Dutch, I'd find it...meh  

Yeh, i haven’t read much into the history of the song but why would you have loyalty to Spain in this day & age! 
It was funny as in WC2010 it was Holland vs Spain final & your players were singing to be loyal to the spanish king
I like the old German anthem which unfortunately is banned. “ Deutschland uber alles” it is very passionate. 

[heywoodu 15,141]

13 minutes ago, Roamingrover86 said:

Yeh, i haven’t read much into the history of the song but why would you have loyalty to Spain in this day & age! 
 

It has everything to do with the 80 year war in the 16th-17th century, when the (more or less modern-day) Netherlands got rid of the Spanish Catholic oppression, under the leadership of William the Silent (William of Orange, as he's known here). The Wilhelmus was sort of a political song, in which William was put forward as a true Christian and someone who never betrayed the Spanish (which was important to stress, since that made it clear it was all on the Spanish).

 

Very long story, it's an 80 year war for a reason, but mostly the Wilhelmus was a political thing and saying "I always honoured the Spanish king" was mostly a diplomatic thing  

[kungshamra71 892]

2 hours ago, hckošice said:

How was Turkmenistan ? I would love to visit it one day

It was… different  Ashgabat is indeed weird but it’s weirdness is over exaggerated by tiktokers and YouTubers.

 

Besides the unique bizarre “north-Korea-like” experiences we had, my favorite part was actually the desert and the things you find there , like this thing 

 

 

In the end I loved it, just as all the other stans. And got a lot of cool new music that I can share one day in some festival of music haha

Edited June 19 by kungshamra71