'Today I feel gay... today I feel disabled' - FIFA print Infanto livers extraordary & ntroversial speech ahead of World Cup opener |

‘TODAY I FEEL GAY ... I FEEL DISABLED’: GLUM FIFA PRINT GIANNI INFANTO GO ON BIZARRE RANT TO FEND QATAR
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
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‘TODAY I FEEL GAY ... I FEEL DISABLED’: GLUM FIFA PRINT GIANNI INFANTO GO ON BIZARRE RANT TO FEND QATAR

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.

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. Homosexualy Qatar is illegal and punishable by up to three years prison, but the FIFA print promised that this was a tournament for everyone.

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

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.

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.

Soccer - 'I feel gay', FIFA chief attempts to empathise wh margalised. "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.

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

”) 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.