Online petition
DFB selection will be “completely detached” when it comes to goals in the future?
Florian Wirtz’s record goal with “Major Tom” in the background? Already a reality online. photo
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A hit from the Neue Deutsche Welle era is currently thrilling German football fans. Some would like to hear the song in the stadium in the future. There are many supporters.
Some Germans In the future, football fans would prefer to celebrate national team goals “completely detached from the earth”.
Since Sunday, two and a half months before the home European Championship, signatures have been collected in an online petition for Peter Schilling’s Neue Deutsche Welle hit “Major Tom” to be played when the DFB team scores in the future. By Monday morning, over 10,000 votes had already been collected.
The song “Kernkraft 400” by Zombie Nation is currently being played at DFB goals, which the fans decided on in a vote by the German Football Association in mid-2019. This song would also be played at the upcoming home game this Tuesday (8:45 p.m./RTL) in Frankfurt against the Netherlands in the event of a goal, as the DFB announced to the t-online.de portal. In further test matches before the home tournament, the national team will face Ukraine on June 3rd in Nuremberg and Greece on June 7th in Mönchengladbach.
“Major Tom” has been heard a lot recently in connection with the national team because the song is played in the Adidas advertising videos for the new jerseys. As a result, clips appeared on social media in which past goals by the DFB selection were accompanied by the song. In the 1982 song’s chorus, “the spaceship floats completely weightless” and “completely detached from the earth.”