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Sportfreunde Stiller is a German rock band from Germering, near Munich in Bavaria. The band was founded in 1996 by Peter “Balboa” Brugger (guitar, 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... Read on...