A video of the Argentinian football team dancing to a Bhojpuri song in their locker room is doing the rounds on social media. We fact-check this video through this article.
Claim: Video shows Argentinian football team players dancing to a Bhojpuri song.
Fact: This is an edited video. The original video shows Argentinian Football player Lionel Messi and his teammates celebrating their 2022 FIFA World Cup victory. In the original video, they were not seen dancing to a Bhojpuri song. Hence, the claim made in the post is False.
To check the veracity of the viral claim, we performed a keyword search leading us to the original video uploaded on 19 December 2022 by former Argentinian football player ‘Sergio Leonel Aguero.’
The viral video is a small portion of this video uploaded by Aguero, which shows him celebrating Argentina’s 2022 FIFA World Cup victory.
The viral video is a small portion of this video, and nowhere in the video was the Bhojpuri song featured, making it clear that the viral video is morphed.
Several media outlets have also published news reports (here, here, and here) about this celebration in December 2022.
To sum up, this video of Argentina’s football team dancing to a Bhojpuri song has been edited.
