The Match for Hope 2025, which was a Doha, Qatar charity football game on February 14, raised funds for Education Above All (EAA), which sponsors the education of less fortunate children. The match featured two teams led by KSI and AboFlah alongside IShowSpeed and Chunkz.
During his pre-match press conference, IShowSpeed joked about retiring his football career if he failed to score throughout the game. KSI reacted to the quip with humor.
During the game, KSI was seen giving IShowSpeed a hard time for not scoring. A clip on X depicts IShowSpeed as if in tears after being laughed at by KSI for not scoring the first half of the game.
Users were absolutely in stitches of Speed's tearful reaction.
Reacting to the video, a user hilariously pointed out:
"didn't ksi score an own goal? 😭"
A user commented:
"Speed needs to just hop in goal atp 💀"
Another user added:
"Ain’t this the same KSI who self score ? 😭😂"
A user humorously highlighted:
"Speed didn't score but yet keeps doin offside 😭😭😭"
One user stated:
"Ayoo 😂😂😂 I can’t tell if speed be acting or not"
A user joked:
"Poor Speed can't catch a break 😂😭"
Match highlights and IShowSpeed's "assist"
During the Match for Hope, KSI scored an own goal while attempting to clear the pass from IShowSpeed.
A video clip of the own goal was uploaded to X, where IShowSpeed played a pass to a teammate. KSI intercepted the pass and accidentally kicked it into his own goal.
Fans jokingly commented on KSI's song "Thick of It" in response to the blunder. Others called out IShowSpeed's "assist" on the own goal.
KSI's persuasion of IShowSpeed to play in the Sidemen Charity match
Following the Match for Hope, KSI insisted upon IShowSpeed to take part in the Sidemen Charity match, scheduled to be played at Wembley Stadium on March 8, 2025.
IShowSpeed had already expressed his disillusionment with his football prowess after the Match for Hope and swore he would never play football again.
He gave KSI a condition, which was that he would play the Sidemen Charity match only if KSI sang "Thick of It."
KSI relented and sang a few words, and IShowSpeed remarked that he would be at the Sidemen Charity match.
Charitable impact of Match for Hope
Match for Hope 2025 followed an earlier event that took place during the year 2024.
The earlier fundraising effort accumulated $8.8 million to benefit more than 70,000 children who were out of school across Palestine, Sudan, Mali, Rwanda, Tanzania, and Pakistan.
This year, the match united popular internet figures with football greats featuring Thierry Henry, Andrés Iniesta, Andrea Pirlo, and Alessandro Del Piero.

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