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Music and soccer unite at the Women's World Cup

June 29, 2011
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Women's soccer was banned by the Deutscher Fußball-Bund, or "DFB" - the German Soccer Association - as of 1955. After all, women's "propriety and integrity" were at stake. It wasn't until 1970 that the DFB ceded to the "wildly kicking women."
Now, over four decades later, the eighth Women's World Cup is taking place here in Germany - from 26 June to 17 July. And it's so hip, it's infiltrated everything from fashion to pop music. For the first time ever, FIFA has also offered up an official hymn for the female soccer players: Alexis Jordan singing "Happiness." You can get a taste of that hymn, as well as some "unofficial" ones, right here.