AI Set To Take Over Football? Viral Video Of Robot Scoring Goal While Training With Mbappe Is CGI

Claim
A humanoid robot stuns French football star Kylian Mbappe with a goal during a training session.

Fact
Video made by digitally altering a clip of a Belgian football content creator when he met Mbappe in May 2022.

Several social media users are circulating a video of what appears to be a humanoid robot scoring an impressive goal during a football training session, stunning French star Kylian Mbappe, who celebrates with the robot, which also pulled off Mbappe’s trademark celebration.

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Fact Check

Newschecker first ran a keyword search for “Mbappe robot”, which did not throw up any credible news reports of such an encounter, raising our doubts.

A further search led us to a Youtube video, dated June 5, 2022, uploaded by OussiFooty, a football content creator from Belgium , titled, “I left Mbappe speechless”. According to the description, “Recently, I [OussiFooty] flew to Qatar to challenge today’s PSG superstars: Kylian Mbappé, Neymar JR, Gianluigi Donnarumma & Nuno Mendes! Besides challenging ALL these players, I had the amazing opportunity to wander around in the beautiful country of Qatar. I can’t wait for the 2022 World Cup to kick off in this amazing country!”

A comparison of the two videos, especially Mbappe’s reaction and the text on the screen, indicates that the Youtube short has been digitally altered by overlaying a CGI humanoid robot onto OussiFooty. A similar “VFX breakdown”, done by TikTok video creator @laserprodai, who does AI edits, confirms that the viral video was altered.

Newshecker had earlier debunked a similar video, finding that a table tennis rally between two players was digitally manipulated to make it look like a humanoid robot is playing.

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Conclusion

A video of a content creator scoring a goal, leaving French and PSG football star Kylian Mbappe impressed, has been digitally altered to make it look like a humanoid robot performed the feat.

Result: Altered media

Sources
Image analysis
Youtube video, OussiFooty, June 5, 2022

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