At The World Cup: Doris Day!

[Ralph]

Death by shootout
Swiss out, Ukraine moves on
By TERRY JONES -- Edmonton Sun
Tue, June 27, 2006


Andriy Nesmachnyi celebrates the Ukraine's penalty kick shoot-out win against Switzerland during their Round of 16 World Cup match Monday in Cologne, Germany.

COLOGNE, Germany -- "Que sera, sera. Whatever will be, will be ..."

And what would be was World Cup history.

The stadium was filled with the sounds of the Doris Day classic song, the same "Que sera, sera" refrain played again and again and again in a pumped-up, rocked-up version while Switzerland and Ukraine prepared to go to penalty kicks.

There's no worse way in sport to lose than on penalty shots. Maybe it's worse to lose to Italy on a single one of them on an absolutely awful call in injury time, as happened to Australia yesterday.

But here, a team that hadn't given up a goal in four complete 90-minute games, plus two 15-minute overtime sessions, lost to Ukraine.

[Ralph]

I'm guessing that they had an engineer to beef up Doris Day's voice and added rock instumentation. These people can do anything with recordings.

[joe t.]

Having watched part of the game, it may have been the crowd chanting the song.

The soccer matches are often boring (for us Americans) because the score is often zero-to-zero or one-to-zero, but the audience is always into the excitement of the game and there is a constant background singing or chanting from the rabid fans of one team or the other. Or both!!

Still I'm glad DD is associated with this song even if she can't stand it anymore:-))

But I must confess, after watching several matches the last few days, the matches have become much more interesting for me even with, or maybe because of, the tight scores.

[Theodomus]

Oh, I posted this in another topic yesterday and only found this string now:

A video of what is described above (unfortunately pretty bad sound quality) you can see on YouTube:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dnY-kBugMEU

[littlegoldfish666]

The fans at the football often sing Que Sera Sera. They do change it slightly though...For example.

Que Sera Sera, whatever will be will be
We're going to Wembleyyy
Que Sera Sera

or when countries got through to the world cup in 1990 in Italy

Que Sera Sera, whatever will be will be
We're going to Italy
Que Sera Sera

or if a team thinks they are going to win the league (which will never be my team)

Que Sera Sera, whatever will be will be
We're going to win the League
Que Sera Sera

I'm a Hearts supporter (Scottish football ) and years ago (late 80's I think it was) when I used to go to the games we had a song that we made up with "By the light of a silvery moon" (that was before I even knew it was Doris that sang that song) It went something like this (It's hard to show you exactly without actually singing it to you, the tune is basically the same but it is a little different and a little faster)

By the light (by the light by the light)
Of a silvery moon (silvery moon silvery moon)
We're the talk O' the toon (talk O' the toon talk O' the toon)
We're the boys in Marooooo ooooo oon

And then it starts over