FIFA Boss Attempts to Empathize: 'I Feel Gay, I Feel Like a Migrant Worker'

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The head of FIFA has been cricised for a bizarre speech fendg Qatar ahead of the World Cup, which he said he feels gay, Arab and disabled, among several other inti." name="scriptn

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FIFA BOSS BRAND 'NUMPTY' FOR PARG HIS GGER HAIR TO BEG GAY QATAR

Gianni Infanto pared his childhood bullyg due to his gger hair to the sufferg of migrant workers and the LGBT+ muny a untry where homosexualy is illegal durg a bizarre rantVio LoadgVio UnavailableFifa Print Gianni Infanto giv prs nferenceFIFA Print Gianni Infanto was brand a “numpty” after sayg he knows how feels to be gay and disabled Qatar. Addrsg ntroversy over the hostg of the World Cup on the eve of kickg off, the boss of footie’s ternatnal erng body pared his childhood bullyg for havg gger hair wh the sufferg of migrant workers and the LGBTQ+ muny the Arab kgdom, where homosexualy is banned. Today I feel Qatari, I feel Arab, I feel Ain, I feel gay, I feel disabled, I feel a migrant worker.

'I FEEL GAY, ARAB AND DISABLED': FIFA BOSS INFANTO'S BIZARRE FENCE OF QATAR AHEAD OF WORLD CUP

" “Of urse I am not Qatari, Arab, Ain, gay, disabled or a migrant worker. Sky Sports reporter Melissa Reddy h back, tellg Infanto live on air: “You do not know what feels like to be gay. ” Veteran gay rights mpaigner Peter Tatchell said: “The statement by the FIFA boss is outrageo.

It is givg ver for a sexist, homophobic, racist dictatorship. ” But FIFA director of media relatns Bryan Swanson, a former Sky Sports reporter, told the journalists: “I am a gay man Qatar. ” England skipper Harry Kane will wear a One Love rabow armband to support gay rights for England’s openg game agast Iran at 1pm on Monday.

The head of FIFA has been cricised for a bizarre speech fendg Qatar ahead of the World Cup, which he said he feels gay, Arab and disabled, among several other inti. Qatar has been slammed for s treatment of gay people and mori, but FIFA chief Gianni Infanto said on Saturday that European people should not judge other add that he unrstood what was like to face discrimatn bee he had red hair and eckl as a of the openg game of the tournament on Sunday, Mr Infanto said: "We have told many, many lsons om some Europeans, om the wtern Italian add: "I thk for what we Europeans have been dog the last 3, 000 years we should be apologisg for next 3, 000 years before startg to give moral lsons to people.

‘I FEEL GAY,’ FIFA BOSS SAYS SPEECH SLAMMG CRICS

Today I feel gay. "Of urse I am not Qatari, I am not an Arab, I am not Ain, I am not gay, I am not disabled. FIFA print Gianni Infanto on Saturday raised eyebrows when he attempted to show empathy wh margalized groups by tellg reporters Qatar: “I feel gay...

‘I FEEL GAY’: FIFA BOSS ACC QATAR’S CRICS OF HYPOCRISY

Infanto tried to reassure the LGBTQ muny, sayg: “Gay people are wele Qatar.

A televised speech by Qatar’s emir, Sheikh Tamim b Hamad Al Thani, on October 25 marked a turng pot the untry’s approach to any cricism, claimg had been “subjected to an unprecented mpaign that no host untry has ever faced” then, ernment misters and senr World Cup anisg staff have dismissed some European cricism as racism, and lls to create a pensatn fund for the fai of migrant workers as a publicy has often been cricised for laws that crimalise homosexualy, lim some eedoms for women and do not offer cizenship to migrants. “How many gay people were prosecuted Europe? The Mlim untry of Qatar, host of the 2022 World Cup, has taken cricism for s sharia laws agast homosexualy and s mistreatment of migrant workers.

Now, FIFA Print Gianni Infanto is takg cricism for belatedly exprsg sympathy wh gays and downtrodn migrant workers Qatar wh an addrs where he exclaimed that he “feels gay” and “feels like a migrant worker” direct ntraventn to the host of the World Cup’s much-rid polici, Rters reported.

FIFA BOSS ATTEMPTS TO EMPATHIZE: ‘I FEEL GAY, I FEEL LIKE A MIGRANT WORKER’

He add that he knows he isn’t a Qatari, he isn’t gay, or an Ain, “But I feel like bee I know what means to be discrimated, to be bullied, as a foreigner a foreign untry. Infanto immediately took cricism — pecially om the gay muny — bee he isn’t gay and uld make such remarks ee om arrt by Qatar for jt that reason. But FIFA’s director of media relatns, Bryan Swanson, an out gay man, disagreed wh the cricism.

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That he feels like a woman. That he feels like a migrant worker. He lectured Europeans for cricisg Qatar’s human rights rerd and fend the host untry’s last-mute cisn to ban beer om World Cup stadiums.</p><p>The FIFA print livered a one-hour tira on the eve of the <a href=">World Cup’s openg match</a>, and then spent about 45 mut answerg qutns om the media about the Qatari ernment’s actns and a wi range of other topics.</p><figure class="gzJMC unfed NvmVw" data-pb-type="im"><picture><source media="(m-width: 1180px)" width="620" height="414" srcSet="zoom_0.089%2C$multiply_4%2C$rat_1.5%2C$width_756%2C$x_0%2C$y_0/t_crop_ctom/c_sle%2Cw_620%2Cq_88%2Cf_to/252cb018aaedb4281797d866ad8253b2e457a026, zoom_0.089%2C$multiply_4%2C$rat_1.5%2C$width_756%2C$x_0%2C$y_0/t_crop_ctom/c_sle%2Cw_1240%2Cq_52%2Cf_to/252cb018aaedb4281797d866ad8253b2e457a026 2x" data-pb-im-nfig="{"aspectRat":1.5,"type":"landspe3x2","width":620,"urls":["zoom_0.089%2C$multiply_4%2C$rat_1.5%2C$width_756%2C$x_0%2C$y_0/t_crop_ctom/c_sle%2Cw_620%2Cq_88%2Cf_to/252cb018aaedb4281797d866ad8253b2e457a026"," zoom_0.089%2C$multiply_4%2C$rat_1.5%2C$width_756%2C$x_0%2C$y_0/t_crop_ctom/c_sle%2Cw_1240%2Cq_52%2Cf_to/252cb018aaedb4281797d866ad8253b2e457a026 2x"]}"/><source media="(m-width: 1020px)" width="620" height="414" srcSet="zoom_0.089%2C$multiply_4%2C$rat_1.5%2C$width_756%2C$x_0%2C$y_0/t_crop_ctom/c_sle%2Cw_620%2Cq_88%2Cf_to/252cb018aaedb4281797d866ad8253b2e457a026, zoom_0.089%2C$multiply_4%2C$rat_1.5%2C$width_756%2C$x_0%2C$y_0/t_crop_ctom/c_sle%2Cw_1240%2Cq_52%2Cf_to/252cb018aaedb4281797d866ad8253b2e457a026 2x" data-pb-im-nfig="{"aspectRat":1.5,"type":"landspe3x2","width":620,"urls":["zoom_0.089%2C$multiply_4%2C$rat_1.5%2C$width_756%2C$x_0%2C$y_0/t_crop_ctom/c_sle%2Cw_620%2Cq_88%2Cf_to/252cb018aaedb4281797d866ad8253b2e457a026"," zoom_0.089%2C$multiply_4%2C$rat_1.5%2C$width_756%2C$x_0%2C$y_0/t_crop_ctom/c_sle%2Cw_1240%2Cq_52%2Cf_to/252cb018aaedb4281797d866ad8253b2e457a026 2x"]}"/><source media="(m-width: 768px)" width="696" height="464" srcSet="zoom_0.089%2C$multiply_4%2C$rat_1.5%2C$width_756%2C$x_0%2C$y_0/t_crop_ctom/c_sle%2Cw_696%2Cq_88%2Cf_to/252cb018aaedb4281797d866ad8253b2e457a026, zoom_0.089%2C$multiply_4%2C$rat_1.5%2C$width_756%2C$x_0%2C$y_0/t_crop_ctom/c_sle%2Cw_1392%2Cq_52%2Cf_to/252cb018aaedb4281797d866ad8253b2e457a026 2x" data-pb-im-nfig="{"aspectRat":1.5,"type":"landspe3x2","width":696,"urls":["zoom_0.089%2C$multiply_4%2C$rat_1.5%2C$width_756%2C$x_0%2C$y_0/t_crop_ctom/c_sle%2Cw_696%2Cq_88%2Cf_to/252cb018aaedb4281797d866ad8253b2e457a026"," zoom_0.089%2C$multiply_4%2C$rat_1.5%2C$width_756%2C$x_0%2C$y_0/t_crop_ctom/c_sle%2Cw_1392%2Cq_52%2Cf_to/252cb018aaedb4281797d866ad8253b2e457a026 2x"]}"/><img alt="" class="_1srKI" data-ttid="Image-image" src="zoom_0.089%2C$multiply_4%2C$rat_1.5%2C$width_756%2C$x_0%2C$y_0/t_crop_ctom/c_sle%2Cw_620%2Cq_88%2Cf_to/252cb018aaedb4281797d866ad8253b2e457a026" srcSet="zoom_0.089%2C$multiply_4%2C$rat_1.5%2C$width_756%2C$x_0%2C$y_0/t_crop_ctom/c_sle%2Cw_382%2Cq_88%2Cf_to/252cb018aaedb4281797d866ad8253b2e457a026, zoom_0.089%2C$multiply_4%2C$rat_1.5%2C$width_756%2C$x_0%2C$y_0/t_crop_ctom/c_sle%2Cw_764%2Cq_52%2Cf_to/252cb018aaedb4281797d866ad8253b2e457a026 2x" siz="(max-width: 767px) 382px" data-id="252cb018aaedb4281797d866ad8253b2e457a026" data-pb-im-nfig="{"aspectRat":1.5,"type":"landspe3x2","width":382,"urls":["zoom_0.089%2C$multiply_4%2C$rat_1.5%2C$width_756%2C$x_0%2C$y_0/t_crop_ctom/c_sle%2Cw_382%2Cq_88%2Cf_to/252cb018aaedb4281797d866ad8253b2e457a026"," zoom_0.089%2C$multiply_4%2C$rat_1.5%2C$width_756%2C$x_0%2C$y_0/t_crop_ctom/c_sle%2Cw_764%2Cq_52%2Cf_to/252cb018aaedb4281797d866ad8253b2e457a026 2x"]}" width="382" height="255"/></picture><figptn class="LuHig"><p>Gianni Infanto: “As a child I was bullied bee I had red hair and eckl.”<!-- --> <ce class="_23SOU">AP</ce></p></figptn></figure><p>“Today I feel Qatari,” Infanto said on Saturday (Sunday AEDT) at the start of his first news nference of the World Cup. “Today I feel Arab. Today I feel Ain. Today I feel gay. Today I feel disabled. Today I feel a migrant worker.”</p><p>Infanto later shot back at one reporter who noticed he left women out of his unual claratn.</p><p>“I feel like a woman,” the FIFA print rpond.</p></div></div><asi class="_3JfHJ"></asi><div class="ZAfSI"><div class="adWrapper _3XglG Hqxcp" data-ttid="ad-wrapper"><div class="" id="adspot-320x360_320x50_300x250_300x50-pos2-mobile"></div><div class="" id="adspot-728x90-pos2-tablet"></div><div class="" id="adspot-970x250_728x90-pos2-sktop"></div><small class="_3azTn">Advertisement</small></div></div><div class="_2J452"><div class="_33oUB"><div class="tl7wu" id="endOfArticle"><p>Qatar has faced a lany of cricism sce 2010, when was chosen by FIFA to host the biggt soccer tournament the world.</p><p>Migrant labourers who built Qatar’s World Cup stadiums often worked long hours unr harsh ndns and were subjected to discrimatn, wage theft and other ab as their employers evad acuntabily, London-based rights group Equim said a 75-page report released this month.</p><p>Infanto fend the untry’s immigratn policy, and praised the ernment for brgg migrants to work.</p><p>“We Europe, we close our borrs and we don’t allow practilly any worker om those untri, who earn obvly very low e, to work legally our untri,” Infanto said.</p><p>“If Europe would really re about the sty of the people, the young people, then Europe uld also do as Qatar did.</p><p>“But give them some work. Give them some future. Give them some hope. But this moral-lson givg, one-sid, is jt hypocrisy.”</p><div class="ZAfSI"><div class="adWrapper _3XglG _35ekj Hqxcp _3_nxH" data-ttid="ad-wrapper"><div class="" id="adspot-320x360_320x50_300x250_300x50-pos3-mobile"></div><div class="" id="adspot-728x90-pos3-tablet"></div><small class="_3azTn">Advertisement</small></div></div><p>Qatar is erned by a heredary emir who has absolute say over all ernmental cisns and follows an ultranservative form of Islam known as Wahhabism. In recent years, Qatar has been transformed followg a natural gas boom the 1990s, but has faced prsure om wh to stay te to s Islamic herage and Bedou roots.</p><p>Unr heavy ternatnal scty, Qatar has enacted a number of labor reforms recent years that have been praised by Equim and other rights groups. But advot say ab are still wispread and that workers have few avenu for redrs.</p><h2>Qatar’s phback</h2><p>Infanto, however, ntued to h the Qatari ernment’s talkg pots of turng cricism back onto the Wt.</p><p>“What we Europeans have been dog for the past 3000 years we should be apologisg for the next 3000 years before we start givg moral lsons to people,” said Infanto, who moved last year om Swzerland to live <a href=">Doha ahead of the World Cup.</a></p><p>In rponse to his ments, human rights group Amnty Internatnal said Infanto was “bshg asi legimate human rights cricisms” by dismissg the price paid by migrant workers to make the tournament possible and FIFA’s rponsibily for .</p><div class="ZAfSI"><div class="adWrapper _3XglG _35ekj Hqxcp _3_nxH" data-ttid="ad-wrapper"><div class="" id="adspot-320x360_320x50_300x250_300x50-pos4-mobile"></div><div class="" id="adspot-728x90-pos4-tablet"></div><small class="_3azTn">Advertisement</small></div></div><p>“Demands for equaly, digny and pensatn nnot be treated as some sort of culture war – they are universal human rights that FIFA has mted to rpect s own statut,” said Steve Cockburn, Amnty’s head of enomic and social jtice.</p><p>A televised speech by Qatar’s emir, Sheikh Tamim b Hamad Al Thani, on October 25 marked a turng pot the untry’s approach to any cricism, claimg had been “subjected to an unprecented mpaign that no host untry has ever faced”.</p><p>Sce then, ernment misters and senr World Cup anisg staff have dismissed some European cricism as racism, and lls to create a pensatn fund for the fai of migrant workers as a publicy stunt.</p><p>Qatar has often been cricised for laws that crimalise homosexualy, lim some eedoms for women and do not offer cizenship to migrants.</p><p>“How many gay people were prosecuted Europe?” Infanto said, repeatg prev ments that European untri had siar laws until recent generatns. “Sorry, was a procs. We seem to fet.”</p><p>He remd that one regn of Swzerland, women got the right to vote only the 1990s.</p><div class="ZAfSI"><div class="adWrapper _3XglG _35ekj Hqxcp _3_nxH" data-ttid="ad-wrapper"><div class="" id="adspot-320x360_320x50_300x250_300x50-pos5-mobile"></div><div class="" id="adspot-728x90-pos5-tablet"></div><small class="_3azTn">Advertisement</small></div></div><p>He also chid European and North Amerin untri who he said did not open their borrs to wele soccer-playg girls and women that FIFA and Qatar worked to help leave Afghanistan last year.</p><p>Albania was the only untry that stepped up, he said.</p><p>Infanto spoke while knowg he will be unopposed for re-electn as FIFA print March.</p><p>“Unfortunately for some of you,” he said to reporters on Saturday, “ looks like I will be here for another four years”.</p><p class="_2OMuZ">AP</p></div><div class="_3E2eQ"><div class="_3nTt0" data-ttid="ArticleFooter"><div class="_30U_H"><div class="_26BHG"><button aria-scribedby="articleFooterLogTooltip" class="JSEcE uxhXB" data-click-outsi-ignore="te" data-ttid="SaveArticle-button" type="button"><span class="DcglW"><svg class="_1SIxy" focable="false" height="1em" aria-hidn="te" width="1em"><e xlk:href="#in-bookmark"></e></svg></span><span class="">Save</span></button><div class="_2jGyo _3Xjsv" id="articleFooterLogTooltip" role="tooltip"><div class="KNEjM" data-ttid="SaveArticle-tooltip"><button class="__V_M" type="button">Log </button> or <a class="_3NFfI" data-ttid="SaveArticle-subscribeLk" href=">Subscribe</a> to save article</div></div></div><div class="_332VY" data-ttid="ArticleSocialShare"><button class="_1whEj E-qQO" data-ttid="ArticleSocialShare-buttonShare" type="button"><span class="_1cmVb"><svg class="_1SIxy" focable="false" height="1em" aria-hidn="te" width="1em"><e xlk:href="#in-share"></e></svg></span><span class="">Share</span></button></div></div><div class="_28OFW"><div class="nEW5f"></div></div></div><div class="_3QtdZ" data-ttid="ArticleTags"><div class="_27M2O _2-Rvi" data-ttid="NewsfeedArticleDriver" role="alert"><hear class="_1slp0"><h2 class="_2iSlc">Introducg your <span class="_3jl0N">Newsfeed</span></h2><button class="_1aHhd" data-ttid="NewsfeedArticleDriver-close" type="button"><svg class="_1SIxy" aria-labelledby="newsfeed article driverclose-tle" focable="false" height="1em" aria-label="Close" role="img" width="1em"><tle id="newsfeed article driverclose-tle">Close .

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