{"id":534006,"date":"2026-07-05T10:00:07","date_gmt":"2026-07-05T10:00:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/534006\/"},"modified":"2026-07-05T10:00:07","modified_gmt":"2026-07-05T10:00:07","slug":"world-cup-2026-mexico-squad-return-watches-gifted-by-content-creator-stevewilldoit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/534006\/","title":{"rendered":"World Cup 2026: Mexico squad return watches gifted by content creator Stevewilldoit"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Mexico have been forced to return luxury watches gifted to them by content creator Stevewilldoit.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The American YouTuber, whose real name is Stephen Deleonardis, says he spent $1m (\u00a3747,000) on Rolex watches for every Mexico player and member of staff.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The World Cup co-hosts play England at Mexico City&#8217;s Azteca Stadium on Sunday evening local time (01:00 BST, Monday).<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Deleonardis <a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/p\/DaV7N9OiYF1\/?utm_source=ig_embed&amp;ig_rid=A0Y3EpKUCgUPrpFJAPKcv4p\" class=\"ssrcss-18834jl-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">presented them to the squad, external<\/a> when he met them on Monday, the day before Mexico beat Ecuador in the last 32.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">However, <a href=\"https:\/\/digitalhub.fifa.com\/m\/4f048486c1f7293c\/original\/FIFA-Code-of-Ethics-2023.pdf\" class=\"ssrcss-18834jl-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Fifa&#8217;s Code of Ethics, external<\/a> has restrictions on offering and accepting gifts, with article 21 stating that such gifts can only be offered or accepted if they &#8220;have symbolic or trivial value&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">According to a <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/miseleccionmx\/status\/2073138478976516470?s=46\" class=\"ssrcss-18834jl-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\" rel=\"nofollow\">post on the team&#8217;s X account, external<\/a> the Mexico players decided to return the watches &#8220;by mutual agreement&#8221; and that Stevewilldoit had gifted them &#8220;on his own initiative&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">They are hoping to reach the quarter-finals for the first time since hosting the World Cup in 1986.<\/p>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/www.instagram.com\/embed.js\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Mexico have been forced to return luxury watches gifted to them by content creator Stevewilldoit. The American YouTuber,&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":534007,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[61,60,112],"class_list":["post-534006","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sports","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/534006","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=534006"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/534006\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/534007"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=534006"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=534006"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=534006"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}