IShowSpeed accidentally admitted to being too scared to approach soccer legend Lionel Messi after encountering him at the FIFA Club Football World Cup.
Speed was present in the stadium tunnel on June 15 ahead of Inter Miami and Al Ahly’s opening match of the tournament, which ultimately ended in a 0-0 draw between the two sides.
As the Inter Miami team made the walk through the tunnel, Speed, seeing Messi, said his name, but didn’t try to approach him.
Attempting to confirm with his chat and others around him, Speed said, “Chat, was that just Messi? No way, I just missed Messi. Ain’t no way.” After some back and forth confirmed that it was in fact Messi who walked past him, Speed continued, “I was just dumb close to Messi, bro. I’m scared.”
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Speed denies being scared of Messi
“We still got a chance, man,” Speed continued later in the stream, explaining why he didn’t make more of an effort to get Messi’s attention. “I didn’t expect it. When I saw him, I was like, Messi, right?
“I was about to go up to him. He walked past, and I was like ‘Oh, that’s him right there. That’s Messi. I was about to go up to him, and the bodyguard was like ‘What are you doing?’” he continued.
Denying claims from chat that he was too scared to act, he continued, “I didn’t freeze, though, chat. I didn’t freeze. I wasn’t scared. It just caught me by surprise, bro.”
After being further teased about being star-struck, Speed accidentally let slip, again, that he was too nervous, stating that his friend, Slipz, was “scared too.” Realizing what he’d just said, Speed backtracked, “I mean no, Slipz was scared. I wasn’t scared.”
Speed’s love of soccer is well known. Whether he’ll get another opportunity to meet with Messi properly, as he has with other soccer legends like Cristiano Ronaldo, remains to be seen.
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