{"id":521984,"date":"2026-06-28T01:04:21","date_gmt":"2026-06-28T01:04:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/521984\/"},"modified":"2026-06-28T01:04:21","modified_gmt":"2026-06-28T01:04:21","slug":"the-sounds-of-dua-lipa-interrupt-portugal-coach-roberto-martinezs-world-cup-news-conference","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/521984\/","title":{"rendered":"The sounds of Dua Lipa interrupt Portugal coach Roberto Mart\u00ednez&#8217;s World Cup news conference"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Martinez even swayed a little in his chair while workers tried to find a way to silence the music.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Dua Lipa&#8217;s supporting Portugal, I believe,&#8221; he said.<\/p>\n<p>Lipa \u2013 the three-time Grammy-winning, London-born, British Albanian singing powerhouse \u2013 is a huge soccer fan and has been at countless major events in recent years. And when Martinez was asked later in his news conference about the balance of his midfield play so far in the tournament, he couldn&#8217;t resist bringing the talk back to the music.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Balance and Dua Lipa, those were the two main topics,&#8221; Martinez said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Martinez even swayed a little in his chair while workers tried to find a way to silence the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":521985,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[321,93,61,60,278,3405],"class_list":["post-521984","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-music","tag-celebrities","tag-entertainment","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-music","tag-soccer"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/521984","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=521984"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/521984\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/521985"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=521984"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=521984"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=521984"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}