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Shakira, Madonna and K-pop megastars BTS will header a Super Bowl-style half-time show astatine nan World Cup last connected 19 July astatine MetLife Stadium successful New Jersey, Fifa said Thursday.
Coldplay’s Chris Martin is curating nan show, which is simply a first for a shot World Cup last but has raised concerns astir really agelong half-time will be.
The biggest-ever World Cup, pinch 48 teams, kicks disconnected connected 11 June successful nan United States, Canada and Mexico.
Fifa president Gianni Infantino announced successful March past twelvemonth that location would beryllium “the first-ever half-time show astatine a Fifa World Cup final”.
He did not opportunity astatine nan clip who would beryllium performing aliases really agelong nan show would last.
“This will beryllium a historical infinitesimal for nan Fifa World Cup and a show befitting nan biggest sporting arena successful nan world,” he said connected Instagram.
The move mirrors nan show held during nan last of nan 2024 Copa America successful Miami, erstwhile Colombian prima Shakira performed astatine half-time astatine nan Hard Rock Stadium.
There was besides a half-time show astatine past year’s Fifa Club World Cup final, besides astatine MetLife Stadium, which stretched nan break successful excess of nan regularisation 15 minutes.
Infantino added that Fifa besides planned to “take over” New York’s Times Square connected nan last play of nan World Cup.
The half-time extravaganza will support Fifa’s Global Citizen Education Fund, an inaugural moving to raise $100m for children worldwide during nan World Cup.
Shakira past week teased nan caller charismatic opus for nan World Cup, releasing a little video of nan way filmed astatine Brazil’s iconic Maracana Stadium.
The vocalist – who besides created nan 2010 World Cup anthem Waka Waka – announced nan song, titled Dai Dai, successful a station connected her Instagram account.
In nan 67-second video, Shakira appears connected nan transportation astatine nan Maracana successful Rio de Janeiro, wherever she performed successful a free performance astatine nan city’s Copacabana Beach earlier 2 cardinal people.
Holding nan Trionda, nan charismatic lucifer shot of nan 2026 World Cup, Shakira performed excerpts of nan opus successful English, joined by dancers dressed successful nan colours of teams including nan US and Colombia.
The opus was produced pinch Nigerian creator Burna Boy and is group for charismatic merchandise connected Thursday. The clip, besides shared by nan Fifa World Cup account, ends pinch nan message: “We’re ready!”
Shakira has a agelong relation pinch nan World Cup, performing astatine nan 2006 and 2014 World Cup finals successful summation to producing Waka Waka for nan 2010 tournament.
