Comments on: Soccer Chant for 5 year olds.

Question: Soccer Chant for 5 year olds.

Beaufort — Thu, 06 Mar 2008 12:38:48 -0800

I need a good chant for my team of 5-year-old soccer players to use at the end of practice and before games. Do you know any?

By: TheOnlyCoolTim

TheOnlyCoolTim — Thu, 06 Mar 2008 12:42:11 -0800

Firecracker firecracker sis-boom-bah
Bugs Bunny Bugs Bunny rah rah rah

By: Mister_A

Mister_A — Thu, 06 Mar 2008 12:42:39 -0800

Rick 'em rick 'em ruck 'em ruck 'em get the ball and really

FIGHT!

Or more seriously, there's good ole 2-4-6-8 who do we appreciate? Other team!!

Wait that's for after games that last one.

By: padraigin

padraigin — Thu, 06 Mar 2008 12:47:27 -0800

My daughter's soccer team chants "PLAY HARD HAVE FUN!", which I like.

By: criticalbill

criticalbill — Thu, 06 Mar 2008 12:52:39 -0800

When I was just a little boy, I asked my mother what will I be
Will I be Arsenal, Will I be Spurs
Heres what she said to me:
Wash your mouth out son
Go get your fathers gun
And shoot some Tottenham scum
Que sera, sera

works for me anyway

By: jbickers

jbickers — Thu, 06 Mar 2008 12:52:57 -0800

Rah rah ree
Kick 'em in the knee
Rah Rah rass
Kick 'em in the other knee

Should be sufficiently almost-naughty to delight five-year-olds.

By: Mister_A

Mister_A — Thu, 06 Mar 2008 12:54:24 -0800

Hah I love that one jbickers!

By: Metroid Baby

Metroid Baby — Thu, 06 Mar 2008 13:00:44 -0800

There was a chant/cheer that cracked me up when I was a kid that I can't quite remember now, and Google is failing me. So I'm probably misquoting, but it went something like:

Move the ball! Move the ball! Move it down the field, NO THAT WAY!!!

There's also "KA all the way, goooooo (team)!" if you change the "KA" part.

By: nedpwolf

nedpwolf — Thu, 06 Mar 2008 13:02:34 -0800

Ferocious fun for fivers:

What do we eat?
What do we eat?
Wolf meat!
Wolf meat!
How do we like it?
How do we like it?
RAW! RAW! RAW!

By: Metroid Baby

Metroid Baby — Thu, 06 Mar 2008 13:09:41 -0800

Oh oh and this one also cracked me up as a kid:

Gimme a B! (B!)
Gimme an L! (L!)
Gimme a B! (B!)
Gimme an L! (L!)
Gimme a B! (B!)
Gimme an L! (L!)
(repeat as desired)
What's that spell? BLBLBLBLBLBL!!! (in which everyone does that thing where you wiggle your finger between your lips and make that underwater fishy sound)

Okay, honestly, that one I didn't hear until I was in high school, and it still cracked me up.

By: ignignokt

ignignokt — Thu, 06 Mar 2008 13:13:23 -0800

How about:

Soccer! Soccer! Soccer!
We we're soccer machines!
Soccer! Soccer! Soccer!
We love ice cream!

It might be a challenge, but it would rule to see five-year-olds chanting this:

They shall grow not old, as we that are left grow old!
Age shall not weary them, nor the years condemn!
At the going down of the sun and in the morning!
We will remember them!

By: radioamy

radioamy — Thu, 06 Mar 2008 13:24:56 -0800

A-W-E
S-O-M-E
Awesome we are and
Awesome we will be! HUH!

By: jlowen

jlowen — Thu, 06 Mar 2008 13:46:13 -0800

I for one would love to see 5 year old do this.

By: jlowen

jlowen — Thu, 06 Mar 2008 13:50:45 -0800

better vid here or just search for HAKA on youtube. I think my 5 year old daughter would love a chance to do a mean war cry at the top of her lungs.

By: youcancallmeal

youcancallmeal — Thu, 06 Mar 2008 13:53:30 -0800

my perpetual favorite is:

BE! COURAGEOUS!
BE! BE! COURAGEOUS!
(repeat ad infinitum)

By: fuzzbean

fuzzbean — Thu, 06 Mar 2008 14:11:19 -0800

We had one for Latin club that went thusly:

Peel! Bananas! Peel peel bananas! (Accompany with banana-peeling motions)
Throw! Bananas! Throw throw bananas! (Accompany with banana-throwing motions)
Stomp! Bananas! Stomp stomp bananas! (Stomp rhythmically on floor)
Go! Bananas! Go go bananas! (Wave hands up in air, do silly things, hop around in a circle, etc.)

No, I don't know what it had to do with Latin.

Also:

[Team name] is what? Dynamite!
[Team name] is what? Dynamite!
[Team name] is tick-tick-tick-tick-tick-tick-tick-tick-BOOM Dynamite!
(Accompany the tick-tick part with hands going from at sides to above head like the hands of a clock, meeting above head in a clap at Boom.)

By: martinX's bellbottoms

martinX's bellbottoms — Thu, 06 Mar 2008 14:19:08 -0800

Person 1: What keeps the cows in?
Team: Defense!

Fuzzy peaches belly button lint dolphins* dolphins win win win
*put the name of your team here. I guess it needs to have 2 syllables.

There;s also the MIT cheer but that might be a bit much for 5 year olds.

By: martinX's bellbottoms

martinX's bellbottoms — Thu, 06 Mar 2008 14:20:44 -0800

When I swam on summer teams we cheered for the little kids by saying, "little hands little feet dolphin munchkins can't be beat"
That might be one to teach the parents on the sidelines.

By: SlyBevel

SlyBevel — Thu, 06 Mar 2008 15:36:25 -0800

Cobras! Cobras!
Comin' through the grass!
You better watch out
Or we'll bite you in the knee!

By: SlyBevel

SlyBevel — Thu, 06 Mar 2008 15:36:59 -0800

(From my scout camp workin' days. I could go on, but there are probably enough here already.)

By: cortex

cortex — Thu, 06 Mar 2008 16:02:26 -0800

[A few comments removed. The question is about actual five-year-olds, not outtakes from the next Adam Sandler movie.]

By: signal

signal — Thu, 06 Mar 2008 17:37:06 -0800

Clear eyes, full hearts, can't lose!, obviously.

By: LobsterMitten

LobsterMitten — Thu, 06 Mar 2008 18:11:11 -0800

Whether the weather is COLD,
And whether the weather is HOT,
We'll be together whatEVER the weather,
And whether we like it or NOT!

(This is for getting pumped before a game. To be said in a huddle, arms over shoulders and bouncing in rhythm with the chant. Repeat, getting louder and louder, until you "break")

By: unSane

unSane — Thu, 06 Mar 2008 18:49:19 -0800

My old band (Dead Man's Curve, a surf band) used to do a band chant before going onstage. We gathered in a circle, shook our fists and yelled, louder and louder...

We will pre-vail
We will PRE-VAIL
We WILL PREVAIL
WE WILL PREVAIL
WE WILL PRE-VAIL!!!!!

Ended up being the title of our second album, and it worked.

By: dendrite

dendrite — Thu, 06 Mar 2008 19:26:52 -0800

Our highschool soccer team had the standard hands-in-the-middle pile.

The coach would yell "Zicka Zacka, Zicka Zacka!"
The team responds "Hoy! Hoy! Hoy!"
Repeat 3X.

I forgot which culture this derives from, but it was a pretty fun chant for my adolescent self.

By: Oriole Adams

Oriole Adams — Thu, 06 Mar 2008 20:27:29 -0800

Pork chops, pork chops
Greasy, greasy
We can beat (other team)
Easy, easy!

By: handybitesize

handybitesize — Fri, 07 Mar 2008 00:51:32 -0800

On the Haka theme, when I was a child playing rugby we used to do the Haka to the words of Humpty-Dumpty.

Hum-pet-y-dum-pet-y
sat-on-a-wall...

By: Beaufort

Beaufort — Fri, 07 Mar 2008 11:28:30 -0800

Thanks for the great Chants!

By: unSane

unSane — Fri, 07 Mar 2008 21:21:47 -0800

The coach would yell "Zicka Zacka, Zicka Zacka!"
The team responds "Hoy! Hoy! Hoy!"

That's a Chelsea football chant, immortalised in the play Zigger Zagger, about a man whose greatest love is football (soccer) which was televised in 1976 (which is when I saw it).

YouTube has a full rendition which goes

Zigger Zagger!! Zigger Zagger!!
Oi! Oi! Oi!
x4

Zigger!!
Oi!

Zagger!!
Oi!!

Zigger Zagger!! Zigger Zagger!!
Oi!! Oi!! Oi!!

By: dendrite

dendrite — Sun, 09 Mar 2008 03:54:03 -0800

unSane: awesome! I had googled it earlier but clearly it's pronunciation had evolved into something else when it hit the midwestern U.S. in the 1990s.