EM 2024 To the left! To the right! Already the European Championship winners in everyone’s hearts: Holland
Oranje fans before the European Championship game in Leipzig
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by Amonte Schröder-Jürss 21.06.2024, 22:07 2 min.
Perhaps the most likeable fans of this European Championship: Oranje supporters are creating a great atmosphere in Leipzig today with the “Links-Rechts-Song” by the “Snollebollekes”. The European Championship song went viral in Hamburg a week ago.
The Dutch fans are “geweldig”: There is no doubt about that in Germany. Even before the Netherlands’ first appearance at the European Championships, around 13,000 Dutch fans bathed the Hanseatic city of Hamburg in orange.
And in such a friendly way! The fan march led them from Millerntorplatz near the FC St. Pauli stadium back to Millerntorplatz.
Song by party hit band Snollebollekes conquers Germany
And it was during this march that the viral TikTok video was created. In it, an orange mass jumped to the song “Links Rechts” by the band Snollebollekes, well, left and right.
The song that makes Germany jump has been a party hit in the Netherlands since 2015. Snollebollekes also caused a small earthquake with this song in 2019, when 40,000 visitors to Koningsdag in the city of Breda danced a little too euphorically from left to right.
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“Going back in my family tree to see if I might have Dutch roots after all,” a German fan commented on the clip on Instagram.
“The video was shared by the German supermarket chain Rewe as a tactic to show which checkout to go to when a new one opens,” wrote another.
Oranje fans created “the best images Leipzig has ever seen”
Today, on the streets of Leipzig, the Dutch once again relied on their lucky charm song before the France match.
Which has already established itself as the secret hit of the European Championship.
“Oh, that’s why it’s so quiet in Holland right now,” writes a Dutch fan.
“Hopefully France won’t destroy us again,” another said.
“Either way, the best pictures Leipzig has ever seen,” commented a German fan.
He is right.
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