The motto has gone viral through the networks, but where does ‘Osasuna never gives up’ come from?
Osasuna never gives up. That chant and motto has recently gone viral through various social networks and is becoming very common among boys and girls when they play in the garden, go on field trips or meet to play in the neighborhood. But where does that singing come from? why did it go viral? why that Osasuna song? and what does that mean?
Where does ‘Osasuna never gives up’ come from?
The origin of this song that has become popular among the little ones can be found in a video that has gone viral on the networks, collecting more than 13 million visits and almost 600,000 likes on the official account of Club Atlético Osasuna. This publication on the social network ‘Tik-Tok’ has had a global impact on the Navarrese club.
The Origin Of The ‘Osasuna Never Gives Up’ Video
Eneko Elósegui, a 44-year-old resident of Pamplona, recorded a video in 2017 with some Ugandan children on a solidarity journey. In that video, he taught them to sing the battle cry normally heard in rural Osasuna. The mythical motto ‘Osasuna never gives up’. After recording it, he sent it to his environment. Today, the video has skyrocketed in viewership, has gone viral and is sung in many schools in Spain and also in Latin America, thanks to the transmission power of social networks.
Why Has ‘Osasuna Never Gives Up’ Gone Viral?
The explanation can be found in a video uploaded in 2017 in which we see a group of boys and girls from Uganda singing the cry of support for the Navarrese team, dressed in red shirts, before a duel against Real Madrid. The emotional charge of the video has made this content go viral and spread across different networks, to the point that thousands of boys and girls have mimicked that song and made their own claim out of it. At the moment, there are hundreds of videos from various fans imitating that video of Ugandan children shouting the slogan.
The video is so successful and popular that other clubs have also decided to imitate the video or play it on their accounts. This has been the case, for example, with the Russian Zenit
‘Osasuna never gives up’ in schools around the world
The usual thing after the explosion of the motto in the networks is to listen to that song in many corners of the world. The song is unstoppable. There are thousands of children who sing it without knowing why, but they sing it. It is sung without knowing why. The video resurfaced on TikTok and has been viewed millions of times. From there, more derivative versions and thousands of reproductions have been made. Boys and girls have mastered the theme in the schoolyard during recess, they sing the song when they go on excursions, in farmer’s schools or even in the neighborhood houses. It has become a childhood phenomenon.
Source: Goal