Vaudeville Smash's Zinedine Zidane is a YouTube hit. "[The band] approached me and ... just said you have to rattle off a lot of names. But when I got to the studio I realised that had to be done to rhythm, to a certain time sequence. They trained me up on that and luckily because I've been a professional musician I've got a bit of a sense of timing. "I used to be in a rock'n'roll band but I never had a hit record, so here's my big chance. "In the late '60s and the early 1970s I was in the Rubber Band. I was the lead singer, it was a cover band ... I was upfront, screaming my little head off. [I had] long hair, no ponytail, platform shoes, flared pants." Fans have made their own videos to go with the song, featuring clips of highlights from Zidane's career. Ted Tosidis from the blog part-time pundit asked: "Could it be that these humble lads ... have produced the greatest football song in the history of World Cup songs, ever?"

Les Murray: 'I never had a hit record, so here's my big chance'. Credit:SBS Remarkably, Zinedine Zidane is more popular on YouTube than many countries' official World Cup songs, including those of England and Australia; The Socceroos' song Up, by Samantha Jade, has had about half as many views. Zinedine Zidane does, however, have a long way to go to match the official anthem for Brazil 2014, We Are One (Ole Ola) by Pitbull with Jennifer Lopez, which, despite much criticism, has had nearly 70 million views. Vaudeville Smash's regular lead vocalist, Marc Lucchesi (who works as a substitute teacher), says the band spent about $20,000 in total on the song - for studio time, a small payment to Murray, paying for Zidane masks to be made (for the video clip), hiring actors and shooting and producing the video. But there have already been dividends: the band has been approached by a Belgian company with the offer of a European distribution deal and YouTube income is already flowing. "From what I've heard you get about $4000 for every million [YouTube] plays," Lucchesi said, adding that a replacement van would be high on their shopping list, if they could make enough from YouTube and iTunes sales. "The van we have now is on the way out, the suspension has just gone. If we can get out of debt and make some money to pay ourselves, which we never do, and make enough to produce some more music, I'd be happy." Lucchesi said Vaudeville Smash were keen for Murray to join them on stage for the song. "We've been emailing quite a bit. I reckon if it's a big enough show I'm hoping he will, who knows, maybe the ARIA [awards] or something. He just might do it."

Murray's picks for a World Cup winner? "Brazil. They're on home turf and they are terrific at the moment. There's always dark horses, like maybe Belgium, maybe even Switzerland, but unlikely. The World Cup is usually won by one of the big guns and that's going to be between Brazil, Argentina, Germany and Spain. "Australia is going to perform creditably but I can't predict that they are going to win games, but it's football, it's the most unpredictable of games." This year, the most unpredictable of results has already happened: Les Murray, accidental pop star. SBS One's 2014 FIFA World Cup coverage begins on Friday June 13 from 4am with the opening ceremony, followed by the first game: Brazil v Croatia from 5am. Zinedine Zidane lyrics

In 1972, under a scorching June sun

In the French Coastal town of Marseilles

Two Algerian immigrants awaited the birth of their 5th child

Later that day, a star was born Verse

Christiano Ronaldo, Wayne Rooney, Veron

Suaraz, Van Basten, Gianluigi Buffon

Xavi, Iniesta, Drogba, Hazard

Tevez, Schweinsteiger, Stephen Gerard Alessandro Del Piero, Neymar, Forlan

Ozil, Nakata, Jean-Pierre Papin

Ballack, Van Persie, Beckham, Giggs, Scholes

But the strongest of them all Chorus

Zinedine Zidane, Zinedine Zidane

Superstar, superstar

Zinedine Zidane, Zinedine Zidane

Superstar, superstar Verse

Lionel Messi, Gareth Bale, Kewell

Nedved, Maldini, Aguero, Raul

Casillas, Cavani, Benzema, Mandzukic

Mario Balotelli, Zlatan Ibrahimovic!

Lothar Matthaus, Shevchenko, Cantona

Ronaldinho, Ronaldo, Romario, Rivaldo, Robinho, Ramirez, KAKA

Falcao, Frank Ribery, Pirlo, Cahill, Kompany

But the strongest of them all