Between the New York Knicks winning the NBA championship to FIFA World Cup fever currently running rampant in New York City, Mayor Zohran Mamdani has been all over the place lately. It’s hard to imagine that there’s someone who doesn’t know who he is.
Well, apparently, there is at least one person who wouldn’t recognize Mayor Mamdani if he was, say, sitting right next to him at a World Cup game.
YouTube megastar IShowSpeed attended the first World Cup 2026 game at NYNJ stadium, aka MetLife Stadium, between Brazil and Morocco on Saturday. Naturally, Speed livestreamed from the match for 2 and a half hours.
At around the 2-hour and 11-minute mark, Speed moves to a new section and takes a seat. His viewers in the livestream chat immediately erupt as they realize that Mayor Mamdani could be seen in the background, sitting just two seats away in the same aisle as Speed.
“Mayor? Who da Mayor?” Speed says as he checks his livestream chat two minutes after taking his new seat.
In a now viral video clipped from the livestream, Speed turns to Mamdani and asks if he’s the Mayor. Mamdani confirms that he is indeed the Mayor of New York City and Speed shakes his hand.
This wasn’t a case of Speed not realizing he was sitting next to Mamdani. Incredibly, Speed did not seem to know who Mamdani even was once he saw him.
But it did make for yet another amazing moment at the 2026 World Cup.
