Infanto: Today I feel Qatari, I feel Arab, I feel Ain, I feel gay, I feel disabled, I feel a migrant worker.... For what we Europeans have been dog around the world the last 3,000 years we should be apologisg for the next 3,000 years before startg to give moral lsons
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- FIFA PRINT GIANNI INFANTO AT WORLD CUP: ‘TODAY I FEEL GAY, I FEEL DISABLED, I FEEL A MIGRANT WORKER’
- WATCH: INFANTO REFERENC FAMO “I FEEL GAY” SPEECH
- 'TODAY I FEEL GAY, DISABLED, LIKE A MIGRANT WORKER' – GIANNI INFANTO TELLS EUROPE TO STOP WORLD CUP ‘MORAL LSONS’
- ‘TODAY I FEEL QATARI. TODAY I FEEL ARAB. TODAY I FEEL AIN. TODAY I FEEL GAY. TODAY I FEEL A MIGRANT WORKER’ – GIANNI INFANTO HS OUT AT WORLD CUP CRICS
- 'TODAY I FEEL GAY, DISABLED, LIKE A MIGRANT WORKER' FIFA BOSS GIANNI INFANTO GIV BIZARRE SPEECH QATAR
- FIFA PRINT SAYS HE FEELS ‘GAY AND DISABLED’ ATTACK ON QATAR WORLD CUP CRICS
- INFANTO SAYS HE FEELS “QATARI, ARAB, GAY, DISABLED, A MIGRANT WORKER”
- ‘I FEEL GAY.’ FIFA BOSS BLASTS HYPOCRISY OF WTERN NATNS STARTLG TIRA
- FIFA BOSS SAYS HE FEELS ‘GAY, DISABLED ... LIKE A WOMAN’
- ‘TODAY I FEEL GAY’: FIFA PRINT GO ON BONKERS RANT FENSE OF QATAR AHEAD OF WORLD CUP
- ‘TODAY I FEEL GAY, I FEEL DISABLED': FIFA PRINT GIANNI INFANTO AT WORLD CUP
- 'I FEEL GAY, I FEEL DISABLED': FIFA CHIEF RAIS EYEBROWS WH SPEECH AGAST QATAR CRICSFIFA PRINT GIANNI INFANTO HAS ED A PRS NFERENCE ON THE EVE OF THE WORLD CUP TO LABEL WTERN CRICS OF QATAR'S HUMAN RIGHTS RERD "HYPOCR".FIFA PRINT GIANNI INFANTO'S MONOLOGUE AT A PRS NFERNECE QATAR LAST FOR AROUND AN HOUR. SOURCE: AP / ABBIE PARRKEY POTSFIFA PRINT GIANNI INFANTO HAS ACCED CRICS OF WORLD CUP HOST QATAR'S HUMAN RIGHTS RERD OF "HYPOCRISY".HE ALSO SAID HE INTIFIED WH MARGALISED GROUPS.MR INFANTO'S REMARKS SPARKED BACKLASH OM HUMAN RIGHTS ADVOT.FIFA PRINT GIANNI INFANTO ACCED CRICS OF WORLD CUP HOST QATAR'S TREATMENT OF MIGRANT WORKERS OF HYPOCRISY ON SATURDAY, ADDG THAT ENGAGEMENT WAS THE ONLY WAY TO IMPROVE HUMAN RIGHTS.IN LENGTHY, AND SOMETIM ANGRY, OPENG REMARKS AT A NEWS NFERENCE ON THE EVE OF THE START OF THE TOURNAMENT, MR INFANTO ROUND ON EUROPEAN CRICS OF THE HOST NATN OVER THE ISSU OF MIGRANT WORKERS AND LGBTIQ+ RIGHTS."TODAY I FEEL QATARI. TODAY I FEEL ARAB. TODAY I FEEL AIN. TODAY I FEEL GAY. TODAY I FEEL DISABLED. TODAY I FEEL (LIKE) A VAGRANT. TODAY I FEEL (LIKE) A MIGRANT WORKER," HE SAID."I FEEL ALL OF THIS BEE WHAT I SEE ... BRGS ME BACK TO MY PERSONAL STORY."MR INFANTO THEN TAILED HOW HE HAD GROWN UP AS THE CHILD OF MIGRANT WORKERS SWZERLAND AND HAD BEEN BULLIED FOR HIS ACCENT AND FOR HAVG RED HAIR AND ECKL."OF URSE, I AM NOT QATARI, I AM NOT AN ARAB, I AM NOT AIN, I AM NOT GAY, I AM NOT DISABLED," HE LATER ADD."BUT I FEEL LIKE , BEE I KNOW WHAT MEANS TO BE DISCRIMATED, TO BE BULLIED, AS A FOREIGNER A FOREIGN UNTRY."MR INFANTO SAID BEG EUROPEAN, HE HAD "DIFFICULTI UNRSTANDG THE CRICISM" OF QATAR'S HUMAN RIGHTS RERD."FOR WHAT WE HAVE BEEN DOG FOR 3,000 YEARS AROUND THE WORLD, WE SHOULD BE APOLOGISG FOR THE NEXT 3,000 YEARS BEFORE GIVG MORAL LSONS," HE SAID."WE HAVE TO VT HELPG THE PEOPLE, TN AND TO GIVE THEM A BETTER FUTURE AND MORE HOPE. WE SHOULD ALL TE OURSELV, MANY THGS ARE NOT PERFECT BUT REFORM AND CHANGE TAK TIME."THIS ONE-SID MORAL LSON IS JT HYPOCRISY."IT IS NOT EASY TO TAKE THE CRICISM OF A CISN THAT WAS MA 12 YEARS AGO. DOHA IS READY, QATAR IS READY AND OF URSE WILL BE THE BT WORLD CUP EVER."READ MORETHE SOCCEROOS HAVE PROTTED AGAST QATAR'S HUMAN RIGHTS RERD. WHY IS THERE SO MUCH NCERN?MR INFANTO'S REMARKS SPARKED BACKLASH OM HUMAN RIGHTS ADVOT."IN BSHG ASI LEGIMATE HUMAN RIGHTS CRICISMS, GIANNI INFANTO IS DISMISSG THE ENORMO PRICE PAID BY MIGRANT WORKERS TO MAKE HIS FLAGSHIP TOURNAMENT POSSIBLE – AS WELL AS FIFA'S RPONSIBILY FOR ," AMNTY INTERNATNAL'S STEVE COCKBURN SAID.HE SAID MANDS FOR FAIR PENSATN SHOULD NOT BE "TREATED AS SOME SORT OF CULTURE WAR".NICK MCGEEHAN OF MIGRANT WORKER ADVOCY GROUP FAIR SQUARE SCRIBED MR INFANTO'S MENTS AS "CRASS" AND "CLUMSY".QATAR HAS SAID THAT IS A WELG UNTRY THAT DO NOT DISCRIMATE AGAST PEOPLE AND HAS NIED ACCATNS OF ABE OF WORKERS.MR INFANTO ALSO FEND THE PRENCE OF IRAN AT THE TOURNAMENT SPE THE CURRENT SPATE OF ADLY PROTTS THERE SPARKED BY THE ATH OF YOUNG KURDISH WOMAN MAHSA AMI POLICE CTODY SEPTEMBER."IT'S NOT TWO REGIM PLAYG AGAST EACH OTHER, 'S NOT TWO IOLOGI PLAYG AGAST EACH OTHER, 'S TWO FOOTBALL TEAMS," HE SAID."IF WE DON'T HAVE AT LEAST FOOTBALL TO BRG TOGETHER... WHICH WORLD ARE WE GOG TO LIVE ? IN IRAN THERE ARE 80 LN PEOPLE, ARE THEY ALL BAD? ARE THEY ALL MONSTERS?"ADDRSG FRIDAY'S CISN TO BAN THE SALE OF ALHOLIC BEER AT STADIUMS DURG THE TOURNAMENT, MR INFANTO SAID FIFA HAD FAILED TO PERSUA THE QATAR ERNMENT TO STAND BY THE ORIGAL CISN TO ALLOW ."WE TRIED AND THAT IS WHY I GIVE YOU THE LATE CHANGE OF POLICY," HE SAID. "WE TRIED TO SEE IF WAS POSSIBLE."MR INFANTO SAID HE HAD RECEIVED ASSURANC OM THE HIGHT LEVEL OF THE QATARI ERNMENT THAT LGBTIQ+ PEOPLE WOULD BE WELED THE UNTRY FOR THE WORLD CUP.SAME-SEX RELATNS ARE ILLEGAL AND PUNISHABLE BY UP TO THREE YEARS OF JAIL-TIME QATAR. SOME SOCCER STARS HAVE RAISED NCERNS OVER THE RIGHTS OF FANS TRAVELLG FOR THE EVENT, PECIALLY LGBTIQ+ DIVIDUALS AND WOMEN, WHOM RIGHTS GROUPS SAY QATARI LAWS DISCRIMATE AGAST.IN AN EXTRAORDARY END TO THE NEWS NFERENCE, BRYAN SWANSON, FIFA'S DIRECTOR OF MEDIA RELATNS, TOOK THE MICROPHONE TO FEND MR INFANTO."I'VE SEEN A LOT OF CRICISM OF GIANNI INFANTO SCE I'VE JOED FIFA, PARTICULAR OM THE LGBTI MUNY," HE SAID."I'M STG HERE A PRIVILEGED POSN ON A GLOBAL STAGE AS A GAY MAN HERE QATAR. HE HAS RECEIVED ASSURANC THAT EVERYONE WILL BE WELE... JT BEE GIANNI INFANTO IS NOT GAY, DO NOT MEAN HE DO NOT RE. HE DO RE."SHARE5 M READPUBLISHED 20 NOVEMBER 2022 8:57AMSOURCE: RTERS, SBSTAGSWORLDFIFA WORLD CUP 2022SHARE THIS WH FAY AND IENDSCOPY LKSHARETOPICS
- 'TODAY I FEEL GAY': GIANNI INFANTO'S BIZARRE SPEECH AHEAD OF QATAR 2022
FIFA PRINT GIANNI INFANTO AT WORLD CUP: ‘TODAY I FEEL GAY, I FEEL DISABLED, I FEEL A MIGRANT WORKER’
FIFA print Gianni Infanto had said he 'feels gay' a bewilrg speech about Qatar World Cup crics. * today i feel gay fifa speech *
Sign up to Miguel Delaney’s Readg the Game newsletter sent straight to your box for eeSign up to Miguel’s Delaney’s ee weekly newsletter Fifa print Gianni Infanto claimed “today I feel gay” as he sld Wtern media for givg “moral lsons” about the ntroversial Qatar World a bizarre hour-long monologue, Infanto lashed out at the World Cup’s crics for hypocrisy, claimed “nobody r” about disabled people, and pared his own childhood experience of beg bullied to the sufferg of workers and others at the hands of the Qatari has been wily cricised for explog untold thoands of migrant workers, mostly lured om impoverished parts of south Asia, to build the stadiums and astcture to host the World Cup.
In addn, Qatar’s suabily to host the tournament has been qutned bee the nservative Islamic natn outlaws homosexualy between men and LGBT+ fan groups have warned they would not feel safe the of the openg game of the tournament on Sunday, Infanto – who was re-elected this week as print of football’s erng body unopposed – ma an extraordary attack on those cricisms, doublg down on Fifa’s choice of Qatar as World Cup hosts.
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.
WATCH: INFANTO REFERENC FAMO “I FEEL GAY” SPEECH
FIFA print Gianni Infanto livered a startlg pre-World Cup speech, sayg "I feel gay ... I feel like a migrant worker." * today i feel gay fifa speech *
’ speech he gave on the eve of the 2022 men’s World Cup, as he ma reference to that now-famo monologue as he spoke at the lnch of the Women’s World November, amidst wispread news verage qutng the treatment of migrant workers Qatar and and the rights of LGBT people the men’s tournament’s host untry, Infanto had begun a strange and lengthy sermon by sayg: “Today I feel Qatari, today I feel Arab, today I feel Ain, today I feel gay, today I feel disabled, today I feel a migrant worker. Full verage tails; Latt newsFifa print Gianni Infanto says he only wants to talk about posive thgs durg the Women's World Cup when asked about issu such as genr pay November, Infanto said: "Today I feel Qatari, I feel Arab, I feel Ain, I feel gay, I feel disabled, I feel a migrant worker. “Of urse, I am not Qatari, I am not an Arab, I am not Ain, I am not gay, I am not disabled.
Infanto attracted cricism on social media for clarg “today I feel gay” and “today I feel (like) a migrant worker” early on the speech, referencg the discrimatn his fay faced as Italian migrants Swzerland and how he was bullied owg to his red hair and rights of the LGBTQ+ muny and migrant workers Qatar have been heavily foc the years leadg up to the fals, particularly Europe, but Infanto highlighted Europe’s own shortgs on social issu and their current immigratn polici what was an impassned fence of Qatar’s progrs sce the fals were ntroversially award 2010.
”Infanto’s remarks that he “felt gay” were cricised on social media, but at the end of the briefg, FIFA’s director of media relatns Bryan Swanson fend the Swiss’ motiv. “I’m stg here as a gay man Qatar, ” Swanson said.
'TODAY I FEEL GAY, DISABLED, LIKE A MIGRANT WORKER' – GIANNI INFANTO TELLS EUROPE TO STOP WORLD CUP ‘MORAL LSONS’
FIFA boss Gianni Infanto told reporters that Qatar would host the "bt World Cup ever" durg a speech which he said he felt "Arab", "Ain" and "gay". * today i feel gay fifa speech *
Jt bee he is not gay do not mean he don’t re.
‘TODAY I FEEL QATARI. TODAY I FEEL ARAB. TODAY I FEEL AIN. TODAY I FEEL GAY. TODAY I FEEL A MIGRANT WORKER’ – GIANNI INFANTO HS OUT AT WORLD CUP CRICS
* today i feel gay fifa speech *
“Of urse I am not Qatari, I am not Arab, I am not Ain, I am not gay or disabled, but I feel like bee I know what means to be discrimated (agast), to be bullied, as a foreigner a foreign untry. Do you want to stay home and cricise, say how bad are the Arabs and Mlims bee ’s not allowed to be publicly gay? “What do you want to do – stay home, hammer and cricise how bad the Arabs and Mlims are bee is not allowed [ the untry] to be publicly gay.
Today I feel Gay.
In what I n only scribe as an extraordary move (any other word will get me to trouble), the FIFA Print said that “I’m not Qatari, Ain, gay, disabled and I’m not really a migrant worker, but I know what means to be discrimated & bullied. ”A uple of weeks ago, Infanto asked everyone to “foc on the football” and not the outstandg ncerns regardg LGBTQ+ laws (beg gay is illegal Qatar) and migrant worker rights.
'TODAY I FEEL GAY, DISABLED, LIKE A MIGRANT WORKER' FIFA BOSS GIANNI INFANTO GIV BIZARRE SPEECH QATAR
”“Gay people are wele Qatar”Then, at long last, the prs nference actually turned to a prs nference. Gay people are wele Qatar. Infanto is unaware that the Qatari ambassador to the World Cup said recently that beg gay was “haram”, meang unlawful or forbidn.
FIFA PRINT SAYS HE FEELS ‘GAY AND DISABLED’ ATTACK ON QATAR WORLD CUP CRICS
That was before he said that beg gay was “damage the md. AL RAYYAN, Qatar - FIFA Print Gianni Infanto raised eyebrows on Saturday when he attempted to show empathy wh margalized groups by tellg reporters Qatar "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, " he later add.
"Judgg by social media, your ments that you feel gay has ed some surprise to many the gay muny, " one journalist later noted before askg Infanto a qutn. "Bee, they are sayg, that if you really were gay you would not be able to say that bee you would be admtg to effectively illegaly. "I'm stg here a privileged posn on a global stage as a gay man here Qatar.
INFANTO SAYS HE FEELS “QATARI, ARAB, GAY, DISABLED, A MIGRANT WORKER”
Jt bee Gianni Infanto is not gay, do not mean he do not re. “Of urse I am not Qatari, Arab, gay or disabled. Today I feel Qatari, I feel Arab, I feel Ain, I feel gay, I feel disabled, I feel a migrant worker.
"Of urse I am not Qatari, I am not an Arab, I am not Ain, I am not gay, I am not disabled.
"You do not know what feels like to be gay, Infanto, you do not know what feels like to be disabled, you do not know what feels like to be Ain and you nnot nflate beg discrimated agast bee of red hair and eckl to any of the groups you've referenced have experienced. "He started off by sayg, 'Today I feel gay'.
‘I FEEL GAY.’ FIFA BOSS BLASTS HYPOCRISY OF WTERN NATNS STARTLG TIRA
That is sultg when he is a untry where beg gay is agast the law, is crimalised and FIFA has cid to brg the World Cup here when they keep tellg football is for everybody. I am stg here a privileged posn, on a global stage as a gay man here Qatar.
"Jt bee Gianni Infanto is not gay do not mean he don't re, he do re. I have a number of gay lleagu, so stg here I am fully aware of the bate and I fully rpect everyone's right and everyone's opns to thk differently, I get . Reports dite “thoands” of migrant workers died the procs of nstctg the stadiums, though the Qatari ernment lists the official unt of aths related to the World Cup stadium projects at jt also fend the natn's stance on gay rights, cludg s laws that crimalize homosexualy, askg “How many gay people were prosecuted Europe?
FIFA BOSS SAYS HE FEELS ‘GAY, DISABLED ... LIKE A WOMAN’
This is precisely what edian Michael Spicer has done the latt of his ‘Room Next Door’ sketch, which see him puttg himself the sho of a fictnal speechwrer to the rich and his latt sk, Spicer terpts Infanto’s alarmg spiel about feelg “Qatari”, “gay” and like a “migrant worker”, by askg impatiently: “How many more people do you feel like? The InpenntThe InpenntNovember 19, 2022 at 3:05 PMFifa print Gianni Infanto claimed “today I feel gay” as he sld wtern media for givg “moral lsons” over the ntroversial Qatar World Cup.
The totalarian le has not gone down well wh human rights anisatns like Amnty and other wtern and European on homosexualyMany the wt assumed the moral high ground and nmned Qatar for s labour laws, and s non tolerant stand on LGBTQ issu, some even llg for a boytt. On beg asked if he (Hugo Lloris) would wear the one love arm band solidary agast Qatar's stance at homosexualy the Tottenham Hotspur goalkeeper replied “When we are France, when we wele foreigners, we often want them to follow our l, to rpect our culture, and I will do the same when I go to Qatar, que simply.