Campione 2000 was the official song of the

UEFA Euro 2000 The 2000 UEFA European Football Championship, also known as Euro 2000, was the 11th UEFA European Championship, a football tournament held every four years and organised by UEFA, the sport's governing body in Europe. The finals tournament wa ...

held in the

Netherlands ) , anthem = ( en, "William of Nassau") , image_map = , map_caption = , subdivision_type = Sovereign state , subdivision_name = Kingdom of the Netherlands , established_title = Before independence , established_date = Spanish Netherl ...

and

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. It was performed by

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musician E-Type and written by E-Type, Rick Blaskey and Kent Brainerd. It gained a huge popularity during the tournament and has since been heard in football games around Europe, both in national and international games. It translates as "Champion" in English. The chorus of the song resembles the chorus of a Dutch popular song "Oranje Boven" which insist the link between Netherlands with the Royal Dutch Family and a national chant honoring the red-white-blue tricolor Dutch national flag. The song was included in E-Type's album Euro IV Ever (2001), and in the Sport Edition of

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(2004). It was also included in

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Track listing

;CD maxi - Europe (2000) # "Campione 2000" (Radio Version) - 3:34 # "Campione 2000" (The Only Earthbound Remix) - 6:39 # "Campione 2000" (Pinocchio Remix) - 4:53 # "Campione 2000" (CF Fonotron Mix) - 2:50

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2000 songs E-Type (musician) songs Association football songs and chants Macaronic songs UEFA Euro 2000 UEFA European Championship official songs and anthems {{anthem-stub

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