{"id":172685,"date":"2025-12-03T10:49:10","date_gmt":"2025-12-03T10:49:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/172685\/"},"modified":"2025-12-03T10:49:10","modified_gmt":"2025-12-03T10:49:10","slug":"world-cup-draw-village-people-and-robbie-williams-to-perform-in-washington","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/172685\/","title":{"rendered":"World Cup draw: Village People and Robbie Williams to perform in Washington"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">American disco group Village People and British superstar Robbie Williams are among the artists set to perform at Friday&#8217;s World Cup draw in Washington DC.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The Village People are due to perform their iconic 1970s song &#8216;YMCA&#8217;, which has more recently become <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/culture\/article\/20250115-how-ymca-became-donald-trumps-unlikely-anthem\" class=\"ssrcss-k8mrr8-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">synonymous with president Donald Trump&#8217;s campaign rallies.<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The draw for the 2026 World Cup, which will feature 48 nations, takes place at the Kennedy Center, at 17:00 GMT (12:00 local time).<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Italian tenor Andrea Bocelli, who <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/sport\/football\/36236680\" class=\"ssrcss-k8mrr8-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">performed as part of Leicester City&#8217;s Premier League title-winning celebrations,<\/a> is also on the bill alongside former Pussycat Dolls singer Nicole Scherzinger.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The show will be co-hosted by supermodel and Emmy Award winner Heidi Klum and actor and comedian Kevin Hart, with actor and producer Danny Ramirez set to interview those in attendance.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The 2026 World Cup runs from 11 June to 19 July and will be jointly hosted by the United States, Mexico and Canada.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Friday&#8217;s draw will be broadcast live across the BBC &#8211; on iPlayer, the BBC Sport website and app and Radio 5 Live and BBC Sounds.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"American disco group Village People and British superstar Robbie Williams are among the artists set to perform at&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":172686,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[61,60,112],"class_list":["post-172685","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sports","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/172685","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=172685"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/172685\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/172686"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=172685"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=172685"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=172685"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}