Sportfreunde Stiller
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 Sportfreunde Stiller facts

• The band was founded in 1996 by Peter "Balboa" Brugger (guitar (references?), vocals), Florian "Rakete" Weber (drums, vocals), and Rüdiger "Rüde" Linhof (bass)
• They took their original name, Stiller, from their former football manager, Hans Stiller, at SV Germering
• They later changed their name because a different band called Stiller owned the rights to this name
• The term Sportfreunde literally translates to friends in sports and is also used in names of sports clubs (e
• g
• Sportfreunde Siegen)
• Sportfreunde Stiller's track "Independent" from Die gute Seite was featured in the video game FIFA 2003
• In 2006 the band wrote "'54, '74, '90, 2006", a fan hymn for the German World Cup squad which became a number one hit in Germany; the song commemorates West German championships in the 1954, 1974, and 1990 World Cups
• After Germany lost in the semi-final against Italy on 4 July 2006, the song was reworked as "'54, '74, '90, 2010" in anticipation of the 2010 FIFA World Cup in South Africa, which they subsequently lost
• Sportfreunde Stiller were nominated five times for Best German Act at the MTV Europe Music Awards, in 2002, 2004, 2006, 2007 and 2009