{"id":8150,"date":"2026-07-23T12:21:33","date_gmt":"2026-07-23T19:21:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.blackhistoryinthebible.com\/community\/argentina-fans-faced-a-fifa-investigation-for-racism\/"},"modified":"2026-07-23T12:21:33","modified_gmt":"2026-07-23T19:21:33","slug":"argentina-fans-faced-a-fifa-investigation-for-racism","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.blackhistoryinthebible.com\/community\/argentina-fans-faced-a-fifa-investigation-for-racism\/","title":{"rendered":"Argentina Fans Faced a FIFA Investigation for Racism"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/y_r4RR9at5U\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe> <\/p>\n<p>Days before Argentina&#8217;s World Cup final, FIFA opened a formal investigation into racist taunts directed at streamer iShowSpeed by Argentine fans \u2014 including a fan making a monkey-like gesture toward him after Argentina&#8217;s win over Egypt, and another fan telling him in Spanish to &quot;go cry at the zoo&quot; during an earlier match against Cape Verde.<\/p>\n<p>FIFA&#8217;s statement was unambiguous: &quot;FIFA strongly condemns racism, hate and discrimination in all forms. These actions have no place in football, at the FIFA World Cup, or anywhere in society&#8230; anyone who acts in a manner that undermines these values is not welcome in our game.&quot;<\/p>\n<p>But after Argentina&#8217;s final loss to Spain on July 19 \u2014 a match marred by a red card, a post-match confrontation involving Leandro Paredes, and Argentina&#8217;s team skipping their press conference entirely \u2014 FIFA President Gianni Infantino posted a message praising Argentina&#8217;s tournament run, with no mention of the racism investigation or the on-field incidents from the final. iShowSpeed himself has not publicly addressed either confrontation with Argentine fans.<\/p>\n<p>\u26bd In this video:<\/p>\n<p>What actually happened to iShowSpeed at the World Cup<br \/>\nFIFA&#8217;s official investigation and statement<br \/>\nInfantino&#8217;s very different tone just days later<br \/>\nWhat this says about accountability in international football<\/p>\n<p>#FIFA #WorldCup2026 #Argentina #iShowSpeed #Racism #Football<\/p>\n<p>Want to create live streams like this? Check out StreamYard: https:\/\/streamyard.com\/pal\/d\/5759717953503232<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Days before Argentina&#8217;s World Cup final, FIFA opened a formal investigation into racist taunts directed at streamer iShowSpeed<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":8151,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_bbp_topic_count":0,"_bbp_reply_count":0,"_bbp_total_topic_count":0,"_bbp_total_reply_count":0,"_bbp_voice_count":0,"_bbp_anonymous_reply_count":0,"_bbp_topic_count_hidden":0,"_bbp_reply_count_hidden":0,"_bbp_forum_subforum_count":0,"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[67],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8150","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-lisa-cabrera"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.blackhistoryinthebible.com\/community\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/hqdefault-264.jpg?fit=480%2C360&ssl=1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.blackhistoryinthebible.com\/community\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8150","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.blackhistoryinthebible.com\/community\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.blackhistoryinthebible.com\/community\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.blackhistoryinthebible.com\/community\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.blackhistoryinthebible.com\/community\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8150"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.blackhistoryinthebible.com\/community\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8150\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.blackhistoryinthebible.com\/community\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8151"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.blackhistoryinthebible.com\/community\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8150"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.blackhistoryinthebible.com\/community\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8150"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.blackhistoryinthebible.com\/community\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8150"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}