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The ultimate World Cup playlist
Originally Published: April 25, 2010
By Roger Bennett and David Hirshey | Special to ESPN.com
Soccer and song go hand in hand like Kid 'n Play. Long before "The Super Bowl Shuffle" was even a twinkle in Jim McMahon's eye, soccer teams from around the world made the act of recording a crude yet infuriatingly catchy single a sporting tradition.
The English squad perfected the art in 1990, recording "World In Motion" with electro-dance pioneers New Order, who proceeded to pack as many nudge-nudge drug double-entendres as humanly possible into a 4 minute, 32-second track.
It seemed ...
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