# Tell Me More About This Song/(Association) Football Chant

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**Category:** Cafe Society\
**Tags:** music\
**Created:** [April 15, 2023, 2:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tell-me-more-about-this-song-association-football-chant/982711 "2023-04-15T14:50:05Z")\
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So, just before [Metallica melts the faces off Antarctic scientists](https://youtu.be/2Hi2u98VKxc?t=5) and a crowd of Latin American fans who were flown there via a commercial promotion, the crowd sings some sort of chant with nonsense lyrics (certainly not any form of Spanish or English that I’m familiar with). I could swear I’ve heard the crowd singing it at soccer games, too, although, you know, Mandela Effect and all that. And considering that a good portion of the crowd were Latin Americans, it seems non unlikely that they’d engage in a soccer chant.

But here’s the thing. [This polish guy](https://youtu.be/roG-wZEbvmw?t=17) performs it, too. In a polka.

So either the song was originally a polka and soccer fans dig it, too. Or it predates polka and both fandoms adopted it. Or they’re not the same song and I’m just confused.

Can anyone helpl me make sense of this?

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**Author:** ![duality72](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/duality72/32/3910_2.png) [@duality72](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/duality72)\
**Post date:** [April 15, 2023, 3:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tell-me-more-about-this-song-association-football-chant/982711/2 "2023-04-15T15:39:23Z")

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This should clear things up for you. It’s just a globally popular soccer chant.

> **[Olé, Olé, Olé](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ol%C3%A9,_Ol%C3%A9,_Ol%C3%A9)**
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> "Olé, Olé, Olé" is a chant used in sport. The chant is based on the Spanish interjection "Olé" used to signify approval by the spectators in bullfighting. The popular version of the "Olé, Olé, Olé" chant was first used in a 1985 song written by the Belgians Roland Verlooven and Grand Jojo called "Anderlecht Champion" as "Allez, Allez, Allez, Allez" in French, but became "Olé, Olé, Olé, Olé" in Spanish in a version titled "E Viva Mexico" created for the Mexico 86 World Cup. This version of the ch...