Uefa Songs

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UEFAEuropean Championship songs and anthems are songs and tunes adopted officially to be used as warm-ups to the event, to accompany the championships during the event and as a souvenir reminder of the events as well as for advertising campaigns leading for the European Championship, giving the singers exceptional universal world coverage and notoriety.[1]

The songs chosen are usually multilingual using English, the language of the official language of the organising country as well as other world languages, most notably Spanish. The official versions also results in cover versions in many other languages by the original artist or by local artists.

The songs caused discomfort among the Gibraltarian authorities and the Football Federation of the British colony publicly expressed its complaint about the attitude of the Spanish players and raised it with UEFA.

Every year the UEFA Champions League Final sees two of Europe's biggest teams go head to head in the biggest match in the domestic football calendar and 2018 is no different. Liverpool and Real Madrid have had plenty of success in Europe in the past and will both be looking to add some silverware to their trophy cabinet.

Speaking to Roman Kemp beforehand, Dua explained, "It's gonna be really exciting. It's something I've never done before and I never thought I'd ever perform in front of football fans, so it's crazy, it's exciting!"

The 'New Rules' singer remained tight lipped ahead of her performance, but given the fact that she's got plenty of HUGE songs under her belt already, we're expecting to hear the likes of 'IDGAF', 'New Rules' or maybe even her recent collaboration with DJ superstar Calvin Harris 'One Kiss'.

The match is taking place in Kiev at the Olimpiyskiy National Sports Complex, which is also known as the Olympic Stadium. The likes of Shakira, George Michael and The Rolling Stones have all performed in the stadium, so Dua Lipa will join a very illustrious list.

This Wednesday in Barcelona, around 60,000 people gathered at Montjuc to enjoy and sing along to the songs of "Estopa", where the rumba brothers managed to captivate the crowd even more by dedicating a song to the 16-year-old star of Barcelona and the Spanish national team, Lamine Yamal.

In this way, the musical group paid tribute to the young player by singing one of his favorite songs and chanting the following: "Lamine Yamal... cada da te quiero ms (every day I love you more) and Lamine Yamal cada da te quiero ms." All this while the audience sang along and got emotional about being once again in the final of a Eurocup.

Furthermore, the excitement for Lamine Yamal continues to grow, not only for him but also for his teammate and friend, Nico Williams. A mural has been painted in Parque de Glries showing both players smiling, holding a ball, with an English phrase that says "Respect!"

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Now to the 2024 Euro Cup. That's the soccer tournament where some of the best European men's teams compete against each other. Today was Day 7 of the tournament, and it featured some of the sport's powerhouses. To catch us up on all the action, let's talk to Dermot Corrigan. He covers soccer for The Athletic and joins us now. Hey there.

CHANG: Hey. OK, so I'm going to work our way back from the last match of the day, which took place this afternoon, Italy versus Spain - right? - two really excellent teams. What stood out to you in this match?

CORRIGAN: Yeah, two of the big European powerhouses, two contenders for the tournament, and it really sorted out how Spain were really superior in the game. They dominated from - almost from start to finish, had a lot of shots on goal. Italy struggled a lot to get into the game at all. Spain only won one-nil in the end, which didn't really reflect just how dominant they were in over the 90 minutes, but they got a victory. They're through to the next round of the championships, and Italy are going to have to go down to the final game to see whether they go through as well.

CHANG: Cool. OK. And in the second match of the day, we're working backwards, England played Denmark, right? That game ended in a 1-1 draw, meaning the game was tied. I'm learning the soccer lingo here. Let me ask you - England's considered one of the favorites, right? But they've only scored two goals in their two games so far. What do you think is going on?

CORRIGAN: Yeah, England is so different. Spain only scored one goal but played really well. England scored one goal but didn't play well at all. And they have a lot of really good attacking players, but the coach, Gareth Southgate, has not yet found a way to (inaudible) fitted performance. They've got a lot of criticism from pundits back at home. It doesn't look so good for England. They're going to have to make changes for their final game. They'll probably still go through. But for a team who, you know, really came in with ambitions to win the tournament, it's been very disappointing so far.

CHANG: Yeah. Well, in the first game of the day, Serbia scored a last-minute goal to draw against Slovenia, 1-1. But before the game started, I understand the Serbian soccer federation threatened to quit the tournament over allegations that Albanian and Croatian fans were using anti-Serb language. What happened exactly? Tell us.

CORRIGAN: ...Your fans together who travel. You know, Serbia and Croatia and Albania are neighbors in the Balkans. Historically, there's been trouble between the different countries, and fans from Croatia and fans from Albania were chanting some pretty offensive songs on the - in the stadium, got picked up on the TV coverage, as well. Some of the social media companies had to try and take down clips that were circulating online.

Serbia were understandably, I think, disappointed and angry at what happened. So UEFA had to come out and really condemn what happened, say that they're going to try and stop it happening again, but it is difficult to police chants in a stadium. So it's a sign of political frictions and historical problems between countries that come out in the stadiums when you have tournaments like this.

CORRIGAN: No. They - I guess they made their protest. UEFA came back with - UEFA, the governing body, came back with their own kind of movement on it, which was enough to keep Serbia happy for the moment.

CORRIGAN: Yeah. France against Holland tomorrow night, a huge game - Kylian Mbappe, one of the stars of the tournament, broke his nose in their first game. He's - might be playing wearing a mask, so everybody's going to be looking forward to see whether he plays and how that turns out in a huge game.

The contest is inclusive; no country that considers itself in any way European is kept out. In this way, it is similar to the UEFA Champions League. Over the next couple of weeks, leading up to the start of the World Cup, this soccer league's final will be contested in Lisbon between two teams from Madrid. The famous Real will attempt to win for an impressive 10th time (no other team has even come close) after a 12-year famine, against the less fashionable Atletico.

The current combined gross domestic product of the 16 official neighbors is about $1.3 trillion. This has the potential to rise to as much as $7 trillion in current dollars by 2050. So it's in the EU's self-interest to take a more sophisticated -- that is, open -- attitude toward these countries, individually and collectively. Russia and Turkey in particular, as well as two more distant neighbors, Iran and Saudi Arabia (both countries with considerable influence over some of the 16 official EU neighbors), should be regarded in strategic economic terms. These four countries have a combined GDP of around $4 trillion (Russia accounts for more than half of it), and that has the potential to reach $18 trillion by 2050.

Taken together, the 20 broader neighborhood countries could be as big as $25 trillion by 2050, 70 percent as large as the EU itself by then. Imagine how helpful this could be to the EU's economic performance. The neighbor countries have value far beyond their ability to write songs.

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