With the England game coming up and the worst national anthem of the 32 about the be played and sung which is your favourite National Anthem of the 32?

For me the most dire is "England's" GSTQ.

Chile has the best,

http://youtu.be/hzMKeN6y-1M

Always loved the German one.

I did a "World Cup" of these on another forum during SA. The winner by a single vote was France.

Narrowly beating Italy.

Italy without a doubt for me. I do like some of these jaunty South American anthems though.

Indeed. Both words and music are shyte. An embarrassment.

There are many great National Anthems:

Russia: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AOAtz8xWM0w

Greece: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5VkPRU6C-JQ

Brazil: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SyyOahYXhUQ

Many more.

Interesting how many of the jaunty ones start with an instrumental bit. I thought that the Uruguayan one sounded very much like the Chilean one.

This will do for England [even if it is as British as GSTQ and not English ]

http://youtu.be/PXQHpO4eEgk

http://youtu.be/WkxW0Dbf5qA

If only Russia had qualified!!

We wouldn't have to see Capello's grin ... but wait ...

Brazil, USA, Russia, Italy, France are top anthems.

Yeah, USA and France also very good.

Yes!! I love that anthem! It was great hearing it so much at the Winter Olympics and Paralympics!

From the ones here, I loved the Italian one, very uplifting.

Just a pity Buffon wasn't llaying tonight, missed him belting out the anthem completely off key!

France
USA
Italy

The Italian national anthem is divine

Italy and France.

Uruguay's national anthem is a good one, in fact most South American ones tend to be up-tempo and lively.

Bosnia's may be worse than England's

I cant hear the French without starting to sing this
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s-pFAFsTFTI&feature=kp

Here is a great fans' rendition of the Italian anthem singing the names of all 24 players from Italian national team for World Cup 2014 using the music of Fratelli d'Italia.

http://youtu.be/ekNGNs-Pqgg

Here is the list to singalong to the tune.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Italy_n...#Current_squad

I'd say Argentina's scores heavily in that department. Horrendous.

I would say the English, French, US and Spanish anthems are all good. Not sure if they are older, but all of them are instantly recognisable to me, unlike a lot of the other anthems which, are a bit meh

It's dire in no small part because it's the British National Anthem (I'm guessing that's why you've put England's in inverted commas). England should have its own, e.g. 'Land of Hope and Glory'. It would also mean that the other countries in the UK could take more pride in our shared anthem (even though it's not the best).

My favourite is Russia, followed by France, USA and Germany. Italy and Spain are also good.

Russia, France and Italy are the best in that order for me. That Argentina anthem sounded really good tonight too.

Question for people, for the ones you are nominating, have you read the lyrics of them? Especially France.

Yes. What do you think needs to be considered about the lyrics? Your post is pretty vague.