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• 'I FEEL GAY', FIFA CHIEF ATTEMPTS TO EMPATHISE WH MARGALISED
• “TODAY, I FEEL GAY. TODAY, I FEEL DISABLED,” SAYS FIFA’S PRINT, WHO IS NEHER
• FIFA PRINT'S QATAR COMMENTS SPARK ONLE CRICISM: 'TODAY I FEEL GAY'
• FIFA PRINT SAYS 'I FEEL AIN, GAY, DISABLED AND MIGRANT WORKER' BIZARRE SPEECHFIFA CHIEF GIANNI INFANTO SPOKE FOR AN HOUR ON CRICISM OF QATAR ON THE EVE OF THE WORLD CUP A SPEECH WHICH HAS BEEN DUBBED "BEYOND PARODY" BY RAGG FANS ON SOCIAL MEDIADAILYSTARBOOKMARKSHARECOMMENTSSPORTBYKASRA MORADISPORTS REPORTER10:00, 19 NOV 2022BOOKMARKVIO LOADGVIO UNAVAILABLECLICK TO PLAYTAP TO PLAYTHE VIO WILL TO-PLAY SOON8CANCELPLAY NOWFOR THE LATT OM THE PCH SIGN UP FOR OUR FOOTBALL NEWSLETTERMORE NEWSLETTERS SUBSCRIBEINVALID EMAILSOMETHG WENT WRONG, PLEASE TRY AGA LATER.MORE NEWSLETTERSWE E YOUR SIGN-UP TO PROVI NTENT WAYS YOU’VE NSENTED TO AND IMPROVE OUR UNRSTANDG OF YOU. THIS MAY CLU ADVERTS OM AND THIRD PARTI BASED ON OUR KNOWLEDGE OF YOU. MORE THANK YOU FOR SUBSCRIBG!WE HAVE MORE NEWSLETTERSSHOW ME SEE OURPRIVACY NOTICE SEE OURPRIVACY NOTICE&TIM;GROUP 28 FOR THE LATT OM THE PCH SIGN UP FOR OUR FOOTBALL NEWSLETTERINVALID EMAILSOMETHG WENT WRONG, PLEASE TRY AGA LATER.SIGN UPNO THANKS, CLOSEWE E YOUR SIGN-UP TO PROVI NTENT WAYS YOU’VE NSENTED TO AND IMPROVE OUR UNRSTANDG OF YOU. THIS MAY CLU ADVERTS OM AND THIRD PARTI BASED ON OUR KNOWLEDGE OF YOU. MORE &TIM;GROUP 28THANK YOU FOR SUBSCRIBG!
• “I AM GAY AS ARE MANY OTHER LLEAGU AT FIFA” – DIRECTOR OF MEDIA RELATNS AT FIFA MAK SURPRISE ANNOUNCEMENT AT GIANNI INFANTO’S WORLD CUP PRS NFERENCE QATAR
• MOMENT - 'I AM GAY' - SENR FIFA OFFICIAL AT WORLD CUP
• FIFA’S PRINT IS FEELG AIN, GAY AND DISABLED. I’M FEELG NFED
• ‘I FEEL GAY.’ FIFA BOSS BLASTS HYPOCRISY OF WTERN NATNS STARTLG TIRA

'I FEEL GAY', FIFA CHIEF ATTEMPTS TO EMPATHISE WH MARGALISED

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... 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 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. "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.

“TODAY, I FEEL GAY. TODAY, I FEEL DISABLED,” SAYS FIFA’S PRINT, WHO IS NEHER

Jt bee Gianni Infanto is not gay, do not mean he do not re. 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 Cup.In 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 regime.Qatar 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 untry.Ahead 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.Infanto said: “We have told many, many lsons om some Europeans, om the Wtern world.

FIFA PRINT'S QATAR COMMENTS SPARK ONLE CRICISM: 'TODAY I FEEL GAY'

Today I feel (like) 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.

Support our vtigative journalism today.Photograph: Caspar BensonInfanto also played down ncerns over whether LGBTQ+ fans faced danger a untry where gay people risk torture and imprisonment, and sisted that Qatar – wh Fifa’s help – had reformed workers’ rights beyond all regnn.The speech began, though, wh Infanto appearg to suggt that his own experienc as a son of Italian immigrants Swzerland gave him a ep unrstandg of migrant workers and other mori Qatar.“Today I feel Qatari,” he said. Today I feel [like] a migrant worker.”He add: “Of urse I am not Qatari, I am not an Arab, I am not Ain, I am not gay, I am not disabled. If you have a person here and there who says the oppose, ’s not the opn of the untry, ’s certaly not the opn of Fifa,’ he said.“You want to stay at home and say how bad they are, the Arabs, the Mlims, bee ’s not allowed to be publicly gay.

FIFA PRINT SAYS 'I FEEL AIN, GAY, DISABLED AND MIGRANT WORKER' BIZARRE SPEECHFIFA CHIEF GIANNI INFANTO SPOKE FOR AN HOUR ON CRICISM OF QATAR ON THE EVE OF THE WORLD CUP A SPEECH WHICH HAS BEEN DUBBED "BEYOND PARODY" BY RAGG FANS ON SOCIAL MEDIADAILYSTARBOOKMARKSHARECOMMENTSSPORTBYKASRA MORADISPORTS REPORTER10:00, 19 NOV 2022BOOKMARKVIO LOADGVIO UNAVAILABLECLICK TO PLAYTAP TO PLAYTHE VIO WILL TO-PLAY SOON8CANCELPLAY NOWFOR THE LATT OM THE PCH SIGN UP FOR OUR FOOTBALL NEWSLETTERMORE NEWSLETTERS SUBSCRIBEINVALID EMAILSOMETHG WENT WRONG, PLEASE TRY AGA LATER.MORE NEWSLETTERSWE E YOUR SIGN-UP TO PROVI NTENT WAYS YOU’VE NSENTED TO AND IMPROVE OUR UNRSTANDG OF YOU. THIS MAY CLU ADVERTS OM AND THIRD PARTI BASED ON OUR KNOWLEDGE OF YOU. MORE THANK YOU FOR SUBSCRIBG!WE HAVE MORE NEWSLETTERSSHOW ME SEE OURPRIVACY NOTICE SEE OURPRIVACY NOTICE&TIM;GROUP 28 FOR THE LATT OM THE PCH SIGN UP FOR OUR FOOTBALL NEWSLETTERINVALID EMAILSOMETHG WENT WRONG, PLEASE TRY AGA LATER.SIGN UPNO THANKS, CLOSEWE E YOUR SIGN-UP TO PROVI NTENT WAYS YOU’VE NSENTED TO AND IMPROVE OUR UNRSTANDG OF YOU. THIS MAY CLU ADVERTS OM AND THIRD PARTI BASED ON OUR KNOWLEDGE OF YOU. MORE &TIM;GROUP 28THANK YOU FOR SUBSCRIBG!

Swanson, a former Sky Sports reporter, said: “I am stg here as a gay man Qatar. We have received assuranc that everyone will be wele and I believe everyone will be.“Jt bee he [Infanto] is not gay, do not mean he do not re. I have a number of gay lleagu.

“I AM GAY AS ARE MANY OTHER LLEAGU AT FIFA” – DIRECTOR OF MEDIA RELATNS AT FIFA MAK SURPRISE ANNOUNCEMENT AT GIANNI INFANTO’S WORLD CUP PRS NFERENCE QATAR

”) 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.

MOMENT - 'I AM GAY' - SENR FIFA OFFICIAL AT WORLD CUP

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?

"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.

FIFA’S PRINT IS FEELG AIN, GAY AND DISABLED. I’M FEELG NFED

FIFA print Gianni Infanto has been slammed for his shockg "I feel Ain, gay, disabled and migrant worker" speech.

Today I feel Gay.

I am gay as are many other lleagu at FIFA and I have always felt supported.

‘I FEEL GAY.’ FIFA BOSS BLASTS HYPOCRISY OF WTERN NATNS STARTLG TIRA

"I am stg here a privileged posn on a global stage as a gay man here Qatar.