Hold up, everyone talking about those “blue” fireworks after the FIFA World Cup Final: the smoke was absolutely, 100% white during the closing ceremony. This isn’t some conspiracy theory, this is straight-up fact. That footage you’re seeing everywhere? It’s been messed with, straight up altered to change the smoke color from white to blue.
Why Were They Trying to Trick Us?
So, why would someone go through all that trouble? The blue smoke was apparently supposed to “prove” the game had been rigged for Argentina, but then Spain went and upset those plans. This whole bogus claim blew up because of a post from an X account, @_Zaraquin, shared just a couple days ago on July 20, 2026. Their caption was wild, basically saying, “If FIFA world cup final was not rigged, why were the fireworks colors of Argentina? Their plans were ruined by Spain.” Come on, man.
That clip everyone’s passing around, it’s about 21 seconds long and looks like it was filmed with a shaky handheld camera pointed at a TV screen. You can even see a ‘Fox+’ logo with ‘vivo’ (that’s Spanish for ‘live’) in the corner. So yeah, someone filmed a live broadcast, or a recording of one from the Fox One streaming platform, and then went and changed the colors. They tried to reference the Argentine flag with that blue smoke, but it just wasn’t accurate to the original footage at all.
The Real Deal: White Smoke, Spain’s Flag, No Rigging
The original footage is clear as day. You see white smoke, illuminated by the evening sun, and right there on the field, the flag of the World Cup champions, Spain. No blue in sight. Just to hammer this home, Lead Stories even tracked down another copy of this aerial footage of the fireworks over MetLife Stadium in East Rutherford, New Jersey. This version was broadcast by Deutsche Telekom’s TV platform, MagentaTV, and guess what? White smoke. The German caption, translated, says: “Fireworks over MetLife Stadium following the trophy presentation at the 2026 World Cup final.”
Both networks, the Fox One clip and the MagentaTV one, showed slightly different cropping, but that made zero difference to the actual color of the smoke. Lead Stories was on it, comparing screenshots, looking at the traffic on the roads, what was on the jumbotron, and even the specific zig-zag patterns of the smoke trails crossing the Spanish flag. They synced it all up perfectly, and the verdict is in: the smoke from those fireworks was unequivocally white, from start to finish.
This is why we have to be so careful about what we see online, even after massive events like the World Cup Final. There’s always someone out there trying to spin a narrative. Let’s stick to the truth.
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Originally reported by Yahoo Sports.
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