Despite its high cheesiness quotient and half of the teams featured in the video already out of the running, I still love this World Cup ad by Australian TV channel, SBS.
If that’s too uncool for you, you’d probably prefer this compilation by French newpaper, Le Monde, of 32 musical hits from every country that qualified for the World Cup.
After all, it’s the fans who are going to save us.
– Sean Jacobs
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Bitter Egyptian entry here:
Ah well. Maybe I’ll head over to Little Egypt and have a sing-a-long anyway.