{"id":919143,"date":"2026-07-07T18:36:15","date_gmt":"2026-07-07T18:36:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/919143\/"},"modified":"2026-07-07T18:36:15","modified_gmt":"2026-07-07T18:36:15","slug":"fifa-investigates-racist-incident-involving-streamer-ishowspeed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/919143\/","title":{"rendered":"FIFA investigates racist incident involving streamer IShowSpeed"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>MIAMI GARDENS, Fla. (AP) \u2014 FIFA said Tuesday it is investigating an incident involving <a href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/ishowspeed-stream-africa-tour-7c4083f24e3e2cb2c739154283faa1a4\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">streamer and YouTuber IShowSpeed<\/a> with a fan in the stands during the <a href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/hub\/fifa-world-cup\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">World Cup<\/a> match between <a href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/5fc400cd5adfd51747c6a09eed0ed0ad\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Argentina and Cape Verde<\/a> on Friday.<\/p>\n<p>IShowSpeed was livestreaming the game and could be heard asking a fan in an Argentina jersey what was being said toward him. The fan speaking in Spanish appeared to be telling IShowSpeed, who is Black, to \u201cgo cry to the zoo.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cFIFA strongly condemns racism, hate and discrimination in all forms,\u201d the soccer body said in a statement. \u201cThese actions have no place in football, at the FIFA World Cup, or anywhere in society. \u2026 The FIFA World Cup is a celebration of unity, diversity and respect. It brings together people, cultures and communities from around the world, and anyone who acts in a manner that undermines these values is not welcome in our game.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Messages sent to IShowSpeed and publicists seeking comment were not immediately returned.<\/p>\n<p>IShowSpeed, a 21-year-old American, has more than 50 million YouTube subscribers, 45 million Instagram followers and 47 million on TikTok.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/hub\/fifa-world-cup\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">See more of AP\u2019s World Cup coverage here<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"MIAMI GARDENS, Fla. (AP) \u2014 FIFA said Tuesday it is investigating an incident involving streamer and YouTuber IShowSpeed&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":919144,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[5134],"tags":[5229,2841,1582,276,179321,2034,5022,104284,19500,3549,7264,221,67,586,132,5230,68,2969,21490],"class_list":["post-919143","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-san-diego","tag-america","tag-argentina","tag-ca","tag-california","tag-cape-verde","tag-fifa","tag-investigation","tag-ishowspeed","tag-racism","tag-san-diego","tag-sandiego","tag-soccer","tag-united-states","tag-united-states-of-america","tag-unitedstates","tag-unitedstatesofamerica","tag-us","tag-usa","tag-world-cup"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/116880145705587503","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/919143","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=919143"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/919143\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/919144"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=919143"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=919143"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=919143"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}