During Euro 2024 Group C Draw, 'Embarrassing Moan'... Who Is the Culprit?

British YouTuber Installs Mobile Phone at Drawing Location
Sets Ringtone to Moaning Sound and Repeatedly Calls as a 'Prank'

During the UEFA Euro 2024 final draw ceremony, an unexpected female moaning sound was heard, causing confusion among the attendees. It was confirmed that the sound came from a mobile phone set up by a British YouTuber.

On the 2nd (local time), the draw ceremony for the 24 participating countries of Euro 2024, which will begin next June, was held in Hamburg, Germany. The draw assigned the 24 teams into six groups of four teams each. Famous former football players continued the event by announcing the countries assigned to each group after the draw, but the incident occurred in the latter part of the draw.

Former Danish footballer Brian Laudrup is conducting the Euro 2024 Group C draw on the 2nd (local time) in Hamburg, Germany.
Photo by AP Yonhap News

Brian Laudrup (Denmark) and David Silva (Spain) were drawing the last teams for Groups A and B when a female moaning sound was heard from somewhere. Laudrup and Silva, who were conducting the draw, showed embarrassed expressions and were flustered, while the officials inside the venue started looking around to find the source of the sound.

The culprit was Daniel Jarvis, a British prankster YouTuber known as 'Jarvo.' Jarvis, who has 204,000 subscribers, is a YouTuber who attracts attention by playing strange pranks during sports games or TV broadcasts.

British YouTuber Daniel Jarvis revealed on the 2nd (local time) that he was responsible for the 'moaning sound' incident that occurred during the Euro 2024 Group C draw.
[Image source=Captured from Jarbo YouTube channel]

Jarvis admitted through his YouTube channel that he was responsible for the incident at the Euro 2024 draw ceremony. He confessed, "We left a mobile phone there (at the draw venue) and played sexual sounds." He set the ringtone to a female moaning sound, hid the phone under a chair at the venue, and kept calling the phone to cause the commotion. The video has surpassed 200,000 views.

Similar prank during football broadcast in January

He has a history of similar pranks and has been legally punished several times before.

In 2021, he was convicted for invading a cricket ground, and in January this year, he hid a smartphone in the BBC studio before the FA Cup match between Wolverhampton and Liverpool, causing moaning sounds to be heard during the broadcast.

Gary Lineker, who was commentating the match at the time, later posted a photo of a phone covered with tape on his social media, writing, "Someone seems to have stuck this phone behind the set," and added, "This disruption was quite amusing."

However, unlike Lineker, football fans reacted coldly. When it was revealed that the person causing the disruption was a YouTuber, many fans criticized him, saying, "What he did is not funny at all," "He is really a threatening person," and "He is ruining football."

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