Los Albirrojos — Soy Albirrojo

A bilingual Paraguayan football anthem — sung partly in Spanish, partly in Guaraní — is broadly charting today, tracked across 208 country and platform charts after a brief gap. The song is a fan hymn to La Albirroja, Paraguay's national team, named for the white-and-red ("blanco y rojo") of the jersey; the Guaraní lines ("soy mbarete" — I am strong) root the chant in the country's indigenous identity, an unusual move for a terrace song that mostly stays in Spanish. Released October 2017 by Paraguay Music, it belongs to a small catalog of Albirroja-supporter tracks built for stadium chanting rather than radio. Its return aligns with the rhythms of an international football calendar, when national anthems and supporter songs tend to surge across South American charts.