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Robbie Williams, Andrea Bocelli and the Village People are to perform as part of a \u201cworld-class entertainment line-up\u201d during Friday\u2019s draw for the 2026 men\u2019s football World Cup. The draw for next year\u2019s tournament will take place at the Kennedy Center in Washington DC, with model and TV personality Heidi Klum, comedian Kevin Hart and actor Danny Ramirez co-hosting the event.<\/p>\n
The Village People will perform YMCA to cap off an event that promises have distinctly Trumpian overtones. The disco hit became a staple at Donald Trump\u2019s campaign rallies and Mar-a-Lago fundraisers.<\/p>\n
Other musical performances will include the classical singer Bocelli and a duet by Williams \u2013 who is Fifa\u2019s music ambassador \u2013 and Nicole Scherzinger. The tournament takes place in the US, Canada and Mexico next summer, running from 11 June to 19 July in 16 cities.<\/p>\n
<\/span>Gianni Infantino and Donald Trump with the World Cup at the Oval Office in August 2025.<\/span> Photograph: Jacquelyn Martin\/AP<\/p>\n Adding another layer of Trump connection, Fifa also plans to unveil its new \u201cPeace Prize \u2013 Football Unites the World\u201d during the event. The award is widely expected to go to Trump after his calls to receive a Nobel Peace Prize this year. The Fifa president, Gianni Infantino, attended Trump\u2019s inauguration in January and has said he deserved global recognition for his role in brokering a ceasefire in the Middle East.<\/p>\n Expanded to 48 teams and 104 matches, the World Cup will span venues from Mexico City to Vancouver and from New York to Los Angeles, with the bulk of games staged in the US as Fifa looks to tap into the world\u2019s biggest sports market.<\/p>\n Trump overhauled the John F Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts in February, becoming chair of the organisation and firing its president, Deborah Rutter.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Robbie Williams, Andrea Bocelli and the Village People are to perform as part of a \u201cworld-class entertainment line-up\u201d during Friday\u2019s draw for the 2026 men\u2019s football World Cup. The draw for next year\u2019s tournament will take place at the Kennedy Center in Washington DC, with model and TV personality Heidi Klum, comedian Kevin Hart and<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":35851,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[53],"tags":[130,6290,1660,5643,364,20132,5922,550,20131],"class_list":{"0":"post-35850","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-sports","8":"tag-cup","9":"tag-draw","10":"tag-lead","11":"tag-lineup","12":"tag-people","13":"tag-trumptinged","14":"tag-village","15":"tag-world","16":"tag-worldclass"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35850","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=35850"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35850\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/35851"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=35850"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=35850"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=35850"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}