Artist	Song
Air Miami	World Cup Fever (Mac McCaughan Mix)
from World Cup Fever (1998)
Mano Negra	Santa Maradona (Larchuma Football Club)
from Best of 2005 (2005)
Vangelis	Anthem - 2002 FIFA World Cup™ Official Anthem
from Vangelis: Anthem - the 2002 FIFA World Cup™ Official Anthem - EP (2007)
Aires Tango	Cancha de Futbol
from Esceñas Argentinas (2004)
Nneka	Viva Africa
from Listen Up! The Official 2010 FIFA World Cup Album (2010)
Toots Thielemans	O Futebol
from The Brasil Project, Vol. 2 (1993)
Arakatuba	Pelé (Remixed By Ballistic Brothers)
from Música de Futebol (2005)
Grupo Batuque & Osunlade	Na Batida Do Agogo (Osunlade Remix)
from Brazilian Love Affair 4 (2003)
Colourbox	The Official Colourbox World Cup Theme (7" Mix)
from Best of Colourbox 82/87 (2001)
Fat Les	Vindaloo (Radio Edit)
from Vindaloo (2010)
Los Fabulosos Cadillacs	La Marcha del Golazo Solitario
from La Marcha del Golazo Solitario (1999)
Electro Sun & Bizzare Contact	World Cup
from Electro Sun - Double Trouble (2007)
Gipsy Kings	Oh Eh Oh Eh
from ¡Volare! - The Very Best of the Gipsy Kings (2004)
Wes	Midiwa Bôl (I Love Football)
from Welenga (1998)
Destorm	One Goal (feat J.A.M.E.S.)
from One Goal (feat J.A.M.E.S.) - Single (2010)

Comment:

The Empire may be nothing but a memory, and England's side hasn't won a Cup since L.B.J. was in office, but it's still the sport's official home, and we have the songs to prove it. The weepily sentimental "You'll Never Walk Alone," originally featured in the 1945 Rodgers & Hammerstein musical [i]Carousel[/i], might seem a strange choice for a sports anthem, but it became the unofficial theme of the Liverpool Football Club after Gerry & The Pacemakers recorded it in 1963. If there's a sport outside tiddlywinks that hasn't fallen prey to the stadium-wide, arm-in-arm PDA charm of Queen's "We Are the Champions," we haven't heard of it. And if, as the British side seems to have done continually for more than four decades now, your team loses, there's nothing better to pick up your disconsolate spirits than the relentlessly cheery Monty Python, whistling their way through "Always Look On the Bright Side of Life."

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