The Welsh national anthem has become a talking point around the world since Wales’s team began competing in their first World Cup since 1958.
Wales’s stirring anthem is called “Hen Wlad Fy Nhadau”, which translates to “Old Land of My Fathers” in English.
When the Welsh team, headed up by captain Gareth Bale, and 3,000 Welsh supporters belted out the anthem at the country’s opening match against USA on Monday 21 November, it gave goosebumps to footballs fans around the globe.
Singer-songwriter Billy Bragg tweeted at the time: “Well Wales have won the national anthem singing contest. Their players looked proud to belt out their anthem while the US team looked faintly embarrassed to be singing in public.”
This year marks the first time the anthem has been sung at the tournament. The last time Wales were at a World Cup, they sang “God Save the Queen”.
Here are the...
Wales’s stirring anthem is called “Hen Wlad Fy Nhadau”, which translates to “Old Land of My Fathers” in English.
When the Welsh team, headed up by captain Gareth Bale, and 3,000 Welsh supporters belted out the anthem at the country’s opening match against USA on Monday 21 November, it gave goosebumps to footballs fans around the globe.
Singer-songwriter Billy Bragg tweeted at the time: “Well Wales have won the national anthem singing contest. Their players looked proud to belt out their anthem while the US team looked faintly embarrassed to be singing in public.”
This year marks the first time the anthem has been sung at the tournament. The last time Wales were at a World Cup, they sang “God Save the Queen”.
Here are the...
- 11/29/2022
- by Ellie Harrison
- The Independent - Music
The Welsh national anthem has become a talking point around the world since Wales’s team began competing in their first World Cup since 1958.
Wales’s stirring anthem is called “Hen Wlad Fy Nhadau”, which translates to “Old Land of My Fathers” in English.
When the Welsh team, headed up by captain Gareth Bale, and 3,000 Welsh supporters belted out the anthem at the country’s opening match against USA on Monday 21 November, it gave goosebumps to footballs fans around the globe.
Singer-songwriter Billy Bragg tweeted at the time: “Well Wales have won the national anthem singing contest. Their players looked proud to belt out their anthem while the US team looked faintly embarrassed to be singing in public.”
This year marks the first time the anthem has been sung at the tournament. The last time Wales were at a World Cup, they sang “God Save the Queen”.
Here are the...
Wales’s stirring anthem is called “Hen Wlad Fy Nhadau”, which translates to “Old Land of My Fathers” in English.
When the Welsh team, headed up by captain Gareth Bale, and 3,000 Welsh supporters belted out the anthem at the country’s opening match against USA on Monday 21 November, it gave goosebumps to footballs fans around the globe.
Singer-songwriter Billy Bragg tweeted at the time: “Well Wales have won the national anthem singing contest. Their players looked proud to belt out their anthem while the US team looked faintly embarrassed to be singing in public.”
This year marks the first time the anthem has been sung at the tournament. The last time Wales were at a World Cup, they sang “God Save the Queen”.
Here are the...
- 11/25/2022
- by Ellie Harrison
- The Independent - Music
The Welsh national anthem has become a talking point around the world since Wales’s team began competing in their first World Cup since 1958.
Wales’s stirring anthem is called “Hen Wlad Fy Nhadau”, which translates to “Old Land of My Fathers” in English.
When the Welsh team, headed up by captain Gareth Bale, and 3,000 Welsh supporters belted out the anthem at the country’s opening match against USA on Monday 21 November, it gave goosebumps to footballs fans around the globe.
Singer-songwriter Billy Bragg tweeted at the time: “Well Wales have won the national anthem singing contest. Their players looked proud to belt out their anthem while the US team looked faintly embarrassed to be singing in public.”
This year marks the first time the anthem has been sung at the tournament. The last time Wales were at a World Cup, they sang “God Save the Queen”.
Here are the...
Wales’s stirring anthem is called “Hen Wlad Fy Nhadau”, which translates to “Old Land of My Fathers” in English.
When the Welsh team, headed up by captain Gareth Bale, and 3,000 Welsh supporters belted out the anthem at the country’s opening match against USA on Monday 21 November, it gave goosebumps to footballs fans around the globe.
Singer-songwriter Billy Bragg tweeted at the time: “Well Wales have won the national anthem singing contest. Their players looked proud to belt out their anthem while the US team looked faintly embarrassed to be singing in public.”
This year marks the first time the anthem has been sung at the tournament. The last time Wales were at a World Cup, they sang “God Save the Queen”.
Here are the...
- 11/24/2022
- by Ellie Harrison
- The Independent - Music
Pentathlon
Stars: Dolph Lundgren, David Soul, Roger E. Mosley, Renée Coleman, Daniel Riordan, Evan James | Written by William Stadiem, Gary T. McDonald, Gary DeVore | Directed by Bruce Malmuth
After winning Olympic Gold in Seoul, East German pentathlete Eric Brogar (Lundgren) takes flight and makes an escape from the demands of his tyrannical coach, Heinrich Mueller (Soul), fleeing to the safety and freedom of the Us with the help of a beautiful American athlete. Several years later, Brogar is “living” in Los Angeles, in an alcohol-fueled stupor, eking out a meagre living working at a grotty diner run by Tc from Magnum P.I., aka actor Roger E. Mosley. Meanwhile his former coach Mueller has turned his dubious talents (not including singing or sliding over the hoods of cars in and around New York, sorry Soul-ites) to neo-Nazi terrorism and a series of attacks on German government officials… Spurred on by his boss,...
Stars: Dolph Lundgren, David Soul, Roger E. Mosley, Renée Coleman, Daniel Riordan, Evan James | Written by William Stadiem, Gary T. McDonald, Gary DeVore | Directed by Bruce Malmuth
After winning Olympic Gold in Seoul, East German pentathlete Eric Brogar (Lundgren) takes flight and makes an escape from the demands of his tyrannical coach, Heinrich Mueller (Soul), fleeing to the safety and freedom of the Us with the help of a beautiful American athlete. Several years later, Brogar is “living” in Los Angeles, in an alcohol-fueled stupor, eking out a meagre living working at a grotty diner run by Tc from Magnum P.I., aka actor Roger E. Mosley. Meanwhile his former coach Mueller has turned his dubious talents (not including singing or sliding over the hoods of cars in and around New York, sorry Soul-ites) to neo-Nazi terrorism and a series of attacks on German government officials… Spurred on by his boss,...
- 7/26/2012
- by Phil
- Nerdly
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