THE TOP TEN 2018 MEN’S WORLD CUP TEAMS RANKED BY HOW EASILY THE FIRST LINES OF EACH COUNTRY’S NATIONAL ANTHEM COULD BE SLIPPED UNNOTICED INTO EXPOSITORY VOICEOVER IN A LORD OF THE RINGS MOVIE

10. Tunisia
“O defenders of the Homeland! Rally around to the glory of our time! The blood surges in our veins… We die for the sake of our land…”

9. France
“Arise, children of the Fatherland, the day of glory has arrived! Against us, tyranny’s bloody standard is raised…”

8. Colombia
“Oh, unwithering glory! Oh, immortal jubilance! In furrows of pain, goodness now germinates…”

7. Peru
“We are free! May we always be so, may we always be so, and may the Sun renounce its light, its light, its light, before we break the solemn vow, which the homeland lifted up to the Eternal…”

6. Iran
“Upwards on the horizon rises the Eastern Sun… The light in the eyes of the believers in justice…”

5. South Korea
“Until that day when the East Sea’s waters run dry and Mt. Baekdu is worn away, may God preserve our country for ten thousand years…”

4. Sweden
“Thou ancient, Thou free, Thou mountainous north… Thou quiet, Thou joyful beautiful! I greet thee, loveliest land upon earth…Thy sun, Thy sky, Thy climes green…”

3. Argentina
“Hear, mortals, the sacred cry ‘Freedom! Freedom! Freedom!’… Hear the sound of broken chains… see noble equality enthroned…”

2. Japan
“May your reign continue for a thousand, eight thousand generations, until the pebbles grow into boulders lush with moss…”

1. Brazil
“The placid shores of the Ipiranga heard the resounding shout of a heroic folk… and the sun of Liberty in shining beams shone in the homeland’s sky at that instant…”

---

On days you wake with a gentleman's head, thank God for McSweeny's.