{"id":785808,"date":"2026-07-07T23:58:10","date_gmt":"2026-07-07T23:58:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/785808\/"},"modified":"2026-07-07T23:58:10","modified_gmt":"2026-07-07T23:58:10","slug":"ed-sheeran-gives-private-performance-for-england-football-team","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/785808\/","title":{"rendered":"Ed Sheeran Gives Private Performance For England Football Team"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The England team posted video on their app showing the 35-year-old performing his hit \u201cCastle on the Hill\u201d for players and staff during some down time ahead of their thrilling 3-2 round-of-16 victory over Mexico on Sunday.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cDo you know what? 2021, Harry (Kane, England\u2019s captain) got me down for the (Euros) camp, and then I met everyone, and then I\u2019ve just been to every one since, and it\u2019s been great,\u201d Sheeran told England\u2019s in-house media.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s been a nice little tradition. First time I played for the lads in 2021 we bonded, and so it\u2019s never a tough crowd.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-1022388\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/Ed-Sheeran-with-the-England-team.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1000\" height=\"600\"  \/>Ed Sheeran with the England team at their World Cup base in Kansas City. Photo \/ @Teddysphotos \/ Instagram<\/p>\n<p>The Suffolk-raised musician is a lifelong football fan and minority owner of Ipswich Town.<\/p>\n<p>He also visited the England squad before their quarter-final match against Switzerland at the 2024 European Championships.<\/p>\n<p>England clinched a World Cup quarter-final berth with Sunday\u2019s dramatic win at the Azteca Stadium.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI think it will be an England-France final, and I think when you get to the final, anyone can win, and I think it\u2019ll be us,\u201d Sheeran said.<\/p>\n<p>The team arrived back in Kansas City on Monday, and used the day mainly for recovery.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The England team posted video on their app showing the 35-year-old performing his hit \u201cCastle on the Hill\u201d&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":785809,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[563],"tags":[64,63,596,85],"class_list":["post-785808","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-football","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-football","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/785808","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=785808"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/785808\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/785809"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=785808"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=785808"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=785808"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}