European Football Championship Rapper Kontra K gives the German team a private concert
Football friend: Rapper Kontra K in January at the new small-field league of Mats Hummels and Lukas Podolski, the Baller League
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The rapper Kontra K stopped by the DFB team’s headquarters before the European Championship round of 16. He is not the first musician to get the German footballers fired up in a tournament.
“Success is not luck,” raps Kontra K in one of his most successful songs. National coach Julian Nagelsmann apparently fully agrees with this thesis. After the victory against Hungary in the group phase, Nagelsmann told the media fussball.news: “I’ve been listening to the song for a long time. I can’t agree with all the lines, but there’s a lot of truth in it.”
So it was a good thing that the DFB team received a visit from the rapper on Thursday. He got the team in the mood for the European Championship round of 16 match against Denmark with a private concert. The German Football Association confirmed this to the news agency SID, first reported by Bild about it. At the team camp in Herzogenaurach, Kontra K also performed “Success is not luck”. The national coach must have been pleased. And his players have also been fans of the Berlin rapper for a long time. The song is also played before European Championship matches at their request.
Konta K, whose real name is Maximilian Diehn, posted a video on Instagram of himself riding a bicycle through the team camp.
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He is not the first musician to get German footballers fired up at a major tournament. At the 2021 European Championship, singer and avowed football fan Mark Forster performed in the team quarters – shortly before Germany played England in the round of 16. Germany lost 0-2. Forster’s performance before that was not well received by the players. But music can also have an effect: When the country swept through its summer fairytale at the 2006 World Cup, it was Xavier Naidoo’s “Dieser Weg” that the team played throughout the tournament.
After one or two slip-ups, it is unlikely that Naidoo will sing a serenade in Herzogenaurach at this European Championship. Perhaps it will still be a summer fairytale.
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