Does a viral video show FIFA President Gianni Infantino reacting to Egypt's goal during a July 2026 World Cup game? No, that's not true: The video clip was miscaptioned. The video had been online days earlier, before that match, and showed footage from a different 2026 World Cup match.
The claim appeared in a post (archived here and here) on X published by @voovh on July 7, 2026. The caption, automatically translated from Arabic to English, read:
Strange!!! FIFA president's reaction after Egypt's goal 🇪🇬!!
This is what the video shared in the post looked like on X at the time of writing:
(Image source: post by @Voovh on X.)
The 20-second clip showed a man who looked like FIFA President Gianni Infantino (archived here) sitting at a stadium during the game, surrounded by other soccer officials. At the 0:15 mark, he appeared to clap once and then touch his mouth with one hand as people around him seem to be celebrating a goal.
The claim that the clip showed Infantino reacting to a goal by Egypt against Argentina spread to English-language posts (archived here), too.
The video showed the Le 360 sport logo. It was that account, belonging to a media organization, that posted it on Instagram on June 29, 2026 (archived here).
Le 360 describes itself as "a Moroccan general-interest digital media outlet" (archived here), as translated by Chrome from French. According to the Media Ownership Monitor, it is linked (archived here) to the country's official party line.
In this case, Le 360 post's description matched other known facts. The French caption of that post read:
L'explosion de joie de Houssine Kharja 🇲🇦 après la qualification des Lions de l'Atlas pour les huitièmes de finale.
As translated by DeepL to English, that meant:
Houssine Kharja's 🇲🇦 outburst of joy after the Atlas Lions qualified for the round of 16.
The video's description showed Morocco's national flag (archived here) and referred to the country's soccer team, also known (archived here) as Atlas Lions, while naming the man in the white shirt jumping next to Infantino: Houssine Kharja (archived here), a former Moroccan soccer player (archived here).
The caption said nothing about Egypt. When the video was published by the outlet's Instagram account, Morocco indeed played against the Netherlands (archived here).
The video showed a characteristic banner:
(Image source: Le 360.)
That was the partially visible phrase "Copa Mundial" (World Cup) that appeared during the Morocco - Netherlands game (archived here):
(Image source: YouTube.)
The Spanish-language banner didn't contradict the setting, given that the game took place (archived here) in Mexico.
A Reuters photo taken during the Morocco-Netherlands match showed (archived here) the same people together in the booth, confirming the time and the date of the shot.
Egypt faced Argentina days later, on July 7, 2026 (archived here), when the claim reviewed in this fact check started to circulate on social media. In the aftermath of the loss, Egypt accused (archived here) FIFA of fixing the game and called for an investigation.
