The origin of CimBom

[Carsi_1903]

How did GS's nickname CIMBOM originate..i cant find any answers.

[Bosanac]

Nobody exactly knows the origin of this word. But there are some urban legends:

• In the past, there was an American (or English) boxer, whose name was Jim (turkish Cim) and who played for Galatasaray sports club. After a game against Fenerbahce, where Galatasaray won 2:0 and Cim scored twice, journalists asked him: "Cim, how was it like?", and Cim answered: "You know... It was like... Cim... BOM... BOM!" Since that popular media event, Galatasaray fans started to call their club Cim Bom Bom or sometimes just Cim Bom.
  
  
• A Galatasaray player moved to Switzerland for a few years and later came back, bringing with him what Swiss fans chanted: something like "Cimbom, Cimbom". In time Galatasaray started using it.
  
  
• In front of the Galatasaray High School, French girls were selling sweets. They couldn't speak Turkish very well, so they were mixing Turkish and French. When talking about sweets, they might have prefer a word inspired by French: jelibom. The word would have been modified and became Cimbom. (Though Turkish later adopted jelibom, as jelibon). Or alternately, the girls were saying "j'aime bonbon" or "I like candy".
  On an early school trip of the Galatasaray High School to Switzerland, the students learned a Swiss football chant with the lyrics "Jim, Bom, Bom" and took it back with them to Istanbul. The song stayed with the team to this day and earned them their famous nickname, Cim Bom.

There may be more legends, and still nobody exactly knows the story of Cimbom.

[SiN]

Welcome to SFN man

[Cihangir]

Thanks Bosanac, very informative and the last one makes more sense.

[SiN]

We say it coz its cool

[Azizinho]

we ARE cool

[SiN]

On the new FIFA games the fans chant out CIMBOM CIMBOM, its awesome

[Carsi_1903]

Tessekur Bosanac..it was very informative

[F_PC_ENTER]

On the new FIFA games the fans chant out CIMBOM CIMBOM, its awesome

Do you have any video clips of that? (from the fifa game)

[SiN]

I dont but i might save a clip from my game and upload it to youtube then give u the link if you like?

[F_PC_ENTER]

If you can make a clip that has crowd sound/atmosphere, sure. Thanx in advance.

Do the Turkish teams have team-specific chants?

[Fener19*07bahce]

On the new FIFA games the fans chant out CIMBOM CIMBOM, its awesome

Iknow its crazy, they also have Fb fans doing the omuz omuza, and the soyle senden baska, kimim var benim, seninle aglarim, seninle gulerim..they have that those two chants, but they both stop halfway through the omuza omuza is madd funny.

[F_PC_ENTER]

^^^^^ really? that's awesome.... can you guys make some clips of the game so we can hear the Turkish chants?

Thanx

[Fkilic]

yo if anyone here has the game and plays online let me know ... cause i'll whip your asses

[F_PC_ENTER]

PES is better.

lol Flame-on!