Jesse Marsch may well duck out of the Kennedy Center’s Concert Hall before the curtain comes down Friday.

The 2026 World Cup men’s soccer draw will drag on longer than any edition in the tournament’s history and there’ll be hefty matters to attend to. But there’s something else: the closing act wouldn’t be a regular on Spotify playlists in the Marsch household.

On Tuesday as it unveiled a “world-class entertainment lineup,” FIFA confirmed the Village People will bring proceedings to an end with an “iconic performance” of “YMCA,” the anthem of choice for the Kennedy Center’s recently-installed chair, Donald Trump .

Last year, when U.S. team captain Christian Pulisic celebrated a goal by mimicking the American president’s trademark “YMCA” wobble, Marsch was asked if he’d told his Can

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