Music in Africa has been largely deployed to make armies march faster, to make people work quicker, and to help groups of strangers to come together.

Every serious club across Africa has its own song or anthem which are specially composed and performed to stir fans emotions like almost nothing else.

But some have failed to realise how this improve footballers’ condinations something that should not be ignored if our football is to compete with the rest of the world.

A study done recently by Researchers at the Institute for Sports Science at the University of Hannover in northern Germany suggest that using music in football might help players: having discovered that a particular rhythm played to a whole team, it can significantly improve their performance.

Their analysis of the data strongly support that persistent rhythms of samba drumming fans that accompanies the Brazilian team has helped them hone their coveted skills.

The findings were similary echoed by actor and musician Thomas Ian Nicholas , best known for his starring roles in “Rookie of the Year” and the American Pie series when he visited the Hall of Fame recently.

During his visit, he talked about the relationship between music and football.

“I think music plays an important role in everything. It’s one of those things where in any sort of moment you can hear a song and it can bring you back to a time. You hear those theme songs that football has and you’re just taken right there to your favorite game,” said Nicholas.

Eros Ramazzotti, undoubtedly one of the most famous and successful Italian popular artists of all time, gave his opinion to FIFA about theme song few months ago a clear indication how the fans music help in improvement of a game, “Football is music,” he declared.

Another world-renowned Colombian star Juanes describes it: “You throw yourself into it, and it moves something within people. You need your feet for football and you need words for music, but fundamentally they arouse one and the same thing: passion.”

Cleary it is evidence that music can revolutionise the game of football in Africa. Fans need to pick up on the good rythms to keep at par with the rest of the world something that will improve the game.

As the case in the west it’s impossible to mention Liverpool without bringing up You’ll Never Walk Alone, the 1945 Rodgers and Hammerstein song from the musical Carousel that Gerry & The Pacemakers covered in 1963 and is the perhaps track on that is most closely associated with a football club.