....apparently my state is getting more into soccer's culture

A school in Gastonia played a speach by Nazi Minister of Propeganda Joseph Goebbles before a game


On a high school soccer field in Gastonia, where teenage boys were set to rumble on a recent night, strange-sounding words blared from the speakers.

It was Joseph Goebbels, Adolf Hitler’s minister of propaganda, brought back to life on the school’s public address system.

The soccer team for Forestview High School, playing Charlotte Catholic that night, had chosen “on to victory” as a slogan for the season, perhaps in deference to a teammate who was a German exchange student.

How that bit of cultural mixing morphed into Goebbels’ voice greeting fans in German defies thoughtful explanation. It appears a couple of the Forestview players were looking to pep up the team by playing its slogan as authentically as possible.