Laura Pausini he will sing in front of the world. The Italian singer-songwriter will perform with Robbie Williams And Nicole Scherzinger at the closing ceremony of FIFA World Cup 2026live worldwide from MetLife Stadium of New York, shortly before kick-off of the final scheduled for Sunday July 19th.
The three will bring to the stage Desirethe official FIFA anthem that brings together two of the most spoken languages in the world, English and Spanish. In front of them tens of thousands of spectators in the stadium and a television audience of billions of people.
Desire, the FIFA anthem that Laura Pausini brought into Spanish
Desire was born from the pen of Robbie Williamswith production by Karl Brazil and Owen Parker and mixing by Richard Flack. The Spanish language adaptation bears her signature Laura Pausini.
Published in 2025, the song accompanied the players' entry onto the field during the FIFA Club World Cup tournament and then in all the matches of the 2026 World Championship played between Mexico, Canada and the United States. It had already been performed live by the two artists in the final of the Club World Cup, again at the MetLife Stadium, in front of 82 thousand people.
Further information: Robbie Williams and Laura Pausini, the story of Desire, the first official FIFA anthem.
The words of Laura Pausini
This is the singer-songwriter's comment:
«Every time I have the opportunity to combine music and sport I realize how both have the power to unite people through the same emotion: passion. Performing at the 2026 FIFA World Cup alongside Robbie Williams and Nicole Scherzinger will be another unforgettable experience, and I am truly honored to be part of an event that brings together people from all over the world through music, sport and party. Because when music and sport come together, they speak a universal language that everyone understands.”
It's not the first time Pausini And Williams they share a stage: last October the singer joined her English colleague at the Panathenaic Stadium in Athens to sing together Desire.
Further information: Laura Pausini between Robbie Williams and Umberto Tozzi: the duet in Athens.
New York, where the World Tour had stopped
There is a coincidence that makes the appointment even more significant. Laura Pausini returns to the United States, and precisely to New York, the city where just over a month ago he closed the Latin and American part of his WORLD TOUR 2026/2027scheduled for June 6 at Madison Square Garden.
The eleventh world tour of the most listened to Italian artist abroad has already sold out 450,000 tickets around the world, with numerous sold out dates. The tour will start again in the autumn from Italy and Europe, starting from the arenas of the big cities and continuing until the end of 2027.
Laura Pausini's numbers around the world
The closing ceremony of the World Cup comes as the culmination of an unparalleled career for an Italian artist. Beyond 75 million records sold in the world and more than 8 billion streamsthe first and only Italian to win a Grammy Awards and to enter the Billboard Hot 100with four Latin Grammy Awards on the bulletin board and the title of Person of the Year 2023 awarded by the Latin Recording Academy, the first non-native Spanish speaker to receive it.
In its path there are also a Golden Globe, an Emmy and Oscar nomination, and the most prestigious stages on the planet: Italian premiere at the Radio City Music Hall and Madison Square Garden in New York, at the Royal Albert Hall in London and at the Olympia in Paris. Billboard magazine featured his album Similares among the fifty best Latin records of the decade.
The one with Robbie Williams, after all, is only the latest in a long series of international collaborations: in its path there are the names of Ennio Morricone, Michael Jackson, Madonna, Phil Collins, Michael Bublé, Gloria Estefan, Kylie Minogue, Luciano Pavarotti, Andrea Bocelli, Ray Charles, Shakira, Mariah Carey, Charles Aznavour, Marc Anthony, Ricky Martin, Alejandro Sanz and Celine Dion.
