The world’s biggest boy group can add a new first to their long list of achievements as one of artists to perform at the inaugural FIFA World Cup Final Halftime Show.

Sixteen years after Roberto Cavalli dressed her for the 2010 World Cup, Shakira returned to football’s biggest stage in another creation by the Italian fashion house.

Rather than going for the kind of spectacular blockbuster staging often seen at sporting events such as the American football Super Bowl, the World Cup rather surprisingly opted to keep things charmin...