{"id":683027,"date":"2026-07-09T21:11:10","date_gmt":"2026-07-09T21:11:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/683027\/"},"modified":"2026-07-09T21:11:10","modified_gmt":"2026-07-09T21:11:10","slug":"ed-sheeran-performs-private-gig-for-england-team-after-mexico-win-culture","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/683027\/","title":{"rendered":"Ed Sheeran performs private gig for England team after Mexico win | Culture"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.independent.co.uk\/topic\/ed-sheeran\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Ed Sheeran<\/a> performed for the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.independent.co.uk\/topic\/england\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">England<\/a> team following <a href=\"https:\/\/www.independent.co.uk\/tv\/acfc\/england-mexico-world-cup-analysis-adam-clery-b3010317.html\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">their 3-2 World Cup win <\/a>against Mexico.<\/p>\n<p>Footage shared by The Three Lions\u2019 official YouTube page shows the singer performing an acoustic version of his 2017 hit \u201cCastle on the Hill\u201d for the players, who had returned to their tournament base in Kansas.<\/p>\n<p>The singer is no stranger to playing for the squad, after Harry Kane first invited him down to the team\u2019s camp for the Euro 2020 tournament, played in 2021 due to covid.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s been great, it\u2019s been a nice little tradition. Since the first time I played for the lads in 2021 we\u2019ve bonded, so it\u2019s never a tough crowd.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Ed Sheeran performed for the England team following their 3-2 World Cup win against Mexico. Footage shared by&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":683028,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[96,128,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-683027","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-music","tag-entertainment","tag-music","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/683027","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=683027"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/683027\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/683028"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=683027"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=683027"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=683027"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}