Ah, it's been years I didn't update this blog but I guess to welcome myself back into this dead blog, I need to write a post after all to kick start the mood. While the World Cup fever is almost over (in few hours time at the time of writing), the football mood will never die. Since the World Cup fever is almost coming to an end, let me ask whether how many of you have heard and familiarize some of the national anthem of the competing country? One thing about sport, in any kind of it in fact, national anthems will play around for the winners or the competing nations. So no wonder many people says that sports can be a patriotism medium as well.
Now, besides our own Malaysia's Negaraku which you sang every other Monday during school time, what other anthems you love to hear or you deemed is some of the best?
HERE ARE MY TOP ELEVEN LIST OF BEST NATIONAL ANTHEM BESIDES NEGARAKU
Number 1: GERMAN ANTHEM (Das Deutschlandlied)
It has originally three stanzas so the original song is over four minutes long. The current anthem structure only consists of its third stanza.
Number 2: RUSSIAN ANTHEM (Gosudarstvenny Gimn Rossiyskoy Federatsii)
Number 3: UNITED STATES ANTHEM (The Star-Spangled Banner)
Listening to this can make you awake....
Number 4: DUTCH ANTHEM (Het Wilhelmus)
One of the world's oldest national anthem.
Number 5: NORTH KOREA ANTHEM (Aegukka)
Number 6: ITALIAN ANTHEM (Il Canto degli Italiani)
Number 7: BRAZILIAN ANTHEM (Hino Nacional Brasileiro)
NUMBER 8: ISRAELI ANTHEM (Hatikvah)
Sounds like from some movie...
Number 9: SPANISH ANTHEM (Marcha Real)
The Spanish anthem is one of the few national anthems in the world to have no official lyrics due to some political differences in Spain.
Number 10: FRENCH ANTHEM (La Marseillaise)
Number 11: UNITED KINGDOM ANTHEM (God Saves The Queen)
The only national anthem that uses interchangeability between the word that describes female or male monarch depending who is the monarch at that time.