{"id":232386,"date":"2025-07-14T00:40:18","date_gmt":"2025-07-14T00:40:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/abianewscentral.com.ng\/tems-performs-at-fifa-club-world-cup-final-halftime-show\/"},"modified":"2025-07-14T00:40:18","modified_gmt":"2025-07-14T00:40:18","slug":"tems-performs-at-fifa-club-world-cup-final-halftime-show","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/abiaradiostations.com.ng\/news\/tems-performs-at-fifa-club-world-cup-final-halftime-show\/","title":{"rendered":"Tems Performs At FIFA Club World Cup Final Halftime Show"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Tems Performs At FIFA Club World Cup Final Halftime Show<br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><strong>Nigerian Grammy Award-winning singer Temilade Openiyi, popularly known as Tems, made history on Sunday night as the first African artiste to perform at the inaugural FIFA Club World Cup Final Halftime Show.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The performance took place at the MetLife Stadium in East Rutherford, New Jersey, in the US, during the final of the 2025 edition of the tournament.<\/p>\n<p>Tems headlined the 15-minute show alongside global stars Doja Cat and J Balvin, with surprise appearances from Coldplay and Emmanuel Kelly.<\/p>\n<p>The show was co-produced by FIFA and Global Citizen. The performance opened with J Balvin\u2019s hits \u201cMi Gente\u201d and \u201cReggaeton,\u201d followed by Tems\u2019 Grammy-winning track, \u201cLove Me JeJe.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Doja Cat took the stage next with her chart-topper \u201cWoman,\u201d while Coldplay closed the segment with \u201cA Sky Full of Stars,\u201d joined by Emmanuel Kelly.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">Tems performing at the <a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/FIFACWC?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#FIFACWC<\/a> Final \u26bd\ufe0f<\/p>\n<p>She makes history as one of the first artists to headline the halftime show <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/qrT1D3ucIa\">pic.twitter.com\/qrT1D3ucIa<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 tems z (@temsszn) <a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/temsszn\/status\/1944497024214462612?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">July 13, 2025<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Tems thrilled both football and music fans with her vocals and stage presence. While she hasn\u2019t commented on the performance as of this report, it adds to her growing global streak \u2014 from debuting at the Met Gala to featuring on major Hollywood soundtracks.<\/p>\n<p>The final itself was equally memorable, as Chelsea stunned European champions Paris Saint-Germain with a dominant 3-0 victory. Cole Palmer starred for the English club, scoring two goals and assisting Joao Pedro\u2019s finish \u2014 all in the first half.<\/p>\n<p>Despite their Champions League success and a 5-0 thrashing of Inter Milan in the final, PSG were unable to recover and ended the match with ten men after Jo\u00e3o Neves was sent off late on.<\/p>\n<p>The event drew over 81,000 spectators, including former U.S. President Donald Trump and First Lady Melania Trump, adding to the spectacle\u2019s grandeur.<\/p>\n<p>With this win, Chelsea became the first-ever champions of FIFA\u2019s expanded 32-team Club World Cup, rounding off a season that also saw them lift the UEFA Conference League and secure a fourth-place finish in the Premier League.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><br \/>\n<br \/>Club World Cup,Tems<br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.channelstv.com\/2025\/07\/13\/tems-performs-at-fifa-club-world-cup-final-halftime-show\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Source<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tems Performs At FIFA Club World Cup Final Halftime Show \u00a0 Nigerian Grammy Award-winning singer Temilade Openiyi, popularly known as Tems, made history on Sunday night as the first African artiste to perform at the inaugural FIFA Club World Cup Final Halftime Show. The performance took place at the MetLife Stadium in East Rutherford, New [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":232387,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[3],"tags":[202,593],"class_list":["post-232386","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-entertainment","tag-club-world-cup","tag-tems"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"amp_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/abiaradiostations.com.ng\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/232386","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/abiaradiostations.com.ng\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/abiaradiostations.com.ng\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abiaradiostations.com.ng\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abiaradiostations.com.ng\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=232386"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/abiaradiostations.com.ng\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/232386\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/abiaradiostations.com.ng\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=232386"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abiaradiostations.com.ng\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=232386"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abiaradiostations.com.ng\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=232386"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}