A global pop star made a stop in the Kansas City area to cheer on his home country’s soccer team before their World Cup game.
On Thursday, Ed Sheeran, the singer famous for songs like “Shape of You,” “Thinking Out Loud” and “The A Team,” posted on social media a video of him singing his hit “Castle on the Hill” to the English soccer team.
The team has been staying at The Inn at Meadowbrook in Prairie Village during the World Cup, while training at Swope Soccer Village in Kansas City, Missouri.
Though not clear from the videos, the private concert appears to have taken place at Loch Lloyd Country Club in Loch Lloyd, Missouri, across the state line from Leawood.
The visit was part of a tradition that Sheeran, who hails from Framlingham in Suffolk, England, started with the team in 2021, he said in the video.
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“(In) 2021, (English soccer player Harry Kane) got me down for the camp, and then I met everyone, and then I’ve just been to everyone since, and it’s been great. It’s been a nice little tradition,” he said.
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The visit came as England gears up to play Norway at 4 p.m. on Saturday in Miami. They were spotted leaving Prairie Village on Friday morning.
Sheeran believes England’s soccer team will win Saturday’s match, he said in a video posted on social media.
“I think it will be an England/France final and I think when you get to the final, anyone can win and I think it will be us,” he said.
There will be watch parties for the game in Johnson County like Pitch Lenexa in Lenexa City Center and the Johnson County Watch Party at the Theatre in the Park amphitheater at Shawnee Mission Park.
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