FIFA Print Gianni Infanto raised eyebrows on Saturday when he attempted to show empathy wh margalised groups by tellg reporters Qatar 'I feel gay ... I feel like a migrant worker'.
Contents:
- FIFA PRINT GIANNI INFANTO AT WORLD CUP: ‘TODAY I FEEL GAY, I FEEL DISABLED, I FEEL A MIGRANT WORKER’
- 'I FEEL GAY', FIFA CHIEF ATTEMPTS TO EMPATHISE WH MARGALISED
- FIFA PRINT'S QATAR COMMENTS SPARK ONLE CRICISM: 'TODAY I FEEL GAY'
- “TODAY, I FEEL GAY. TODAY, I FEEL DISABLED,” SAYS FIFA’S PRINT, WHO IS NEHER
- '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 LKSHAREREMEND FOR YOU
FIFA PRINT GIANNI INFANTO AT WORLD CUP: ‘TODAY I FEEL GAY, I FEEL DISABLED, I FEEL A MIGRANT WORKER’
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.
'I FEEL GAY', FIFA CHIEF ATTEMPTS TO EMPATHISE WH MARGALISED
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.
AL RAYYAN, Qatar, Nov 19 (Rters) - FIFA Print Gianni Infanto raised eyebrows on Saturday when he attempted to show empathy wh margalised 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 Football - FIFA World Cup Qatar 2022 - FIFA Print Prs Conference - Ma Media Center, Doha, Qatar - November 19, 2022 FIFA print Gianni Infanto durg a prs nference REUTERS/Matthew Childs Acquire Licensg Rights"But I feel like , bee I know what means to be discrimated, to be bullied, as a foreigner a foreign untry. "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.
FIFA PRINT'S QATAR COMMENTS SPARK ONLE CRICISM: 'TODAY I FEEL GAY'
"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.
Jt bee Gianni Infanto is not gay, do not mean he do not re.
“TODAY, I FEEL GAY. TODAY, I FEEL DISABLED,” SAYS FIFA’S PRINT, WHO IS NEHER
"Bryan Swanson, FIFA Director of Media Relatns, also told the prs nference: "I am stg here as a gay man Qatar. "In addn to laws agast homosexualy, Qatar has long been acced of mistreatg migrant workers.
'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 LKSHAREREMEND FOR YOU
”) Earlier this month, Infanto wrote a letter to the 32 natnal feratns participatg at the World Cup, askg them to “foc on the football, ” rather than get bogged down cricism of a untry that prohibs homosexualy. 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, ” he ntued.
Is that really the same thg as beg a worker whose passport was nfisted so they uldn’t leave their job, or livg fear of your life bee you’re gay a untry that ref to regnize you exist? "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.