{"id":384356,"date":"2026-07-03T00:29:18","date_gmt":"2026-07-03T00:29:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/384356\/"},"modified":"2026-07-03T00:29:18","modified_gmt":"2026-07-03T00:29:18","slug":"viral-online-streamer-ishowspeed-attends-san-francisco-world-cup-watch-party-nbc-bay-area","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/384356\/","title":{"rendered":"Viral online streamer IShowSpeed attends San Francisco World Cup watch party \u2013 NBC Bay Area"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Online streamer <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/@IShowSpeed\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">IShowSpeed<\/a> is one of many soccer fans taking in World Cup action Thursday at San Francisco&#8217;s Thrive City.<\/p>\n<p>The viral online personality, who has over 56 million YouTube subscribers, has been attending World Cup matches across the globe, including watching Wednesday&#8217;s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nbcbayarea.com\/world-cup\/usa-bosnia-herzegovina-score-live-updates\/4106831\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">USMNT vs. Bosnia and Herzegovina<\/a> match in Santa Clara.<\/p>\n<p>IShowSpeed, whose given name is Daren Watkins Jr., planned on attending the Portugal vs. Croatia Round of 32 match in Toronto, but reported in an X post he was unable to due to plane issues. The Cristiano Ronaldo fan instead found himself attending the Thrive City watch party.<\/p>\n<p>During halftime of the match, IShowSpeed took time to meet with fans, take pictures, sign autographs and play mini soccer.<\/p>\n<p>View his livestream on YouTube from the Thrive City watch party below.<\/p>\n<p>IShowSpeed&#8217;s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nbcbayarea.com\/news\/local\/ishowspeed-san-francisco-visit\/3954366\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Bay Area visit in September<\/a> drew thousands of fans who followed him and shut down streets in San Francisco and Oakland.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Online streamer IShowSpeed is one of many soccer fans taking in World Cup action Thursday at San Francisco&#8217;s&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":384357,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[30],"tags":[15392,101,103,102,104,106,105],"class_list":["post-384356","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-san-francisco","tag-2026-world-cup","tag-san-francisco","tag-san-francisco-headlines","tag-san-francisco-news","tag-sf","tag-sf-headlines","tag-sf-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/384356","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=384356"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/384356\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/384357"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=384356"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=384356"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=384356"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}