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Coldplay’s Chris Martin and the band’s manager, Phil Harvey, will be involved in helping Fifa plan the lineup for the first World Cup final half-time show next year. Gianni Infantino, the president of Fifa, confirmed the duo’s role in the Super Bowl-style event on Instagram. The final will be played at MetLife Stadium in New Jersey on 19 July.
Infantino said Martin and Harvey would be “working with [Fifa] to finalise the list of artists who will perform during the half-time show”. Infantino did not confirm how long Fifa intended the show to last, but the Super Bowl’s is generally between 25 and 30 minutes.
“This will be a historic moment for the Fifa World Cup and a show befitting the biggest sporting event in the world,” he wrote. Infantino said there would be a takeover of Times Square for the weekend of the final.
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The finals are being co-hosted by the United States, Canada and Mexico. The three countries are involved in a trade war, sparked by the imposition of tariffs by Donald Trump. The US anthem has been booed at recent sporting events by Canadian fans in response to that and after his regular calls for Canada to become the US’s 51st state.
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