Alley Kerr, a professional dancer and Chapman University alum, performed alongside the popular online streamer IShowSpeed in the FIFA World Cup closing ceremony on Sunday.<\/p>\n
The final matchup of the tournament took place at the New York New Jersey Stadium, where Spain and Argentina faced each other. Spain brought home the coveted trophy after a 1-0 win in extra time.<\/p>\n
The closing ceremony featured global superstars from Tom Cruise to Nicole Scherzinger to celebrate before the kick-off.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Kerr performed ahead of the match with IShowSpeed to his hit 2026 soccer anthem \u201cWorld Cup (Champions).”\u00a0<\/p>\n
Kerr spoke with NBC Los Angeles about her experience performing in such a major event.\u00a0<\/p>\n
\u201cIt\u2019s been a whirlwind because it\u2019s actually been a very short process,\u201d Kerr said. \u201cWe only practiced for six days.\u201d<\/p>\n
Kerr told NBCLA that the team of dancers learned the choreography in just one day, began practicing at a local high school\u2019s football field and then went to the New York New Jersey Stadium.\u00a0<\/p>\n
\u201cThere was something new and interesting going on at all times,\u201d Kerr said.\u00a0<\/p>\n
From the dancers to the crew members, Kerr said she was one of the hundreds of people who made the performance come to life.\u00a0<\/p>\n
She added that the experience was one she never thought she would have.\u00a0<\/p>\n
\u201cI feel like the World Cup in general has been such a unifying element in the past month,\u201d Kerr said. \u201cBeing able to be a part of that in itself has just been really amazing.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Alley Kerr, a professional dancer and Chapman University alum, performed alongside the popular online streamer IShowSpeed in the…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":405830,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[15392,48,52,51,47,50,49],"class_list":["post-405829","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-los-angeles","tag-2026-world-cup","tag-la","tag-la-headlines","tag-la-news","tag-los-angeles","tag-los-angeles-headlines","tag-los-angeles-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/405829","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=405829"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/405829\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/405830"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=405829"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=405829"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=405829"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}