'Today I feel gay': FIFA Print fends Qatar wild World Cup rant

Contents:

• 'I FEEL GAY', FIFA CHIEF ATTEMPTS TO EMPATHISE WH MARGALISED
• FIFA PRINT GIANNI INFANTO AT WORLD CUP: ‘TODAY I FEEL GAY, I FEEL DISABLED, I FEEL A MIGRANT WORKER’
• “TODAY, I FEEL GAY. TODAY, I FEEL DISABLED,” SAYS FIFA’S PRINT, WHO IS NEHER
• ‘I FEEL GAY, DISABLED … LIKE A WOMAN TOO!’: INFANTO MAK BIZARRE ATTACK ON CRICS
• FIFA PRINT'S QATAR COMMENTS SPARK ONLE CRICISM: 'TODAY I FEEL GAY'
• ‘TODAY I FEEL GAY, I FEEL DISABLED': FIFA PRINT GIANNI INFANTO AT WORLD CUP
• ‘TODAY I FEEL GAY’: FIFA PRINT GO ON BONKERS RANT FENSE OF QATAR AHEAD OF WORLD CUP
• ‘I FEEL GAY.’ FIFA BOSS BLASTS HYPOCRISY OF WTERN NATNS STARTLG TIRA
• FIFA PRINT SAYS HE FEELS ‘GAY AND DISABLED’ ATTACK ON QATAR WORLD CUP CRICS
• FIFA HEAD REBUFFS CRICS, SAYS ‘I FEEL’ LIKE GAY PEOPLE OR MIGRANTS
• 'TODAY I FEEL GAY, DISABLED, LIKE A MIGRANT WORKER' – GIANNI INFANTO TELLS EUROPE TO STOP WORLD CUP ‘MORAL LSONS’
• 'TODAY I FEEL GAY... TODAY I FEEL DISABLED' - FIFA PRINT INFANTO LIVERS EXTRAORDARY & NTROVERSIAL SPEECH AHEAD OF WORLD CUP OPENER
• FIFA BOSS BRAND 'NUMPTY' FOR PARG HIS GGER HAIR TO BEG GAY QATAR
• FIFA CELEBRAT PRI, MONTHS BEFORE HOLDG WORLD CUP WHERE BEG GAY IS ILLEGAL
• FIFA PRINT BLASTS CRICISM OF QATAR WORLD CUP AS ‘HYPOCRISY’: ‘TODAY I FEEL GAY. TODAY I FEEL DISABLED. TODAY I FEEL A MIGRANT WORKER.’

'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"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 GIANNI INFANTO AT WORLD CUP: ‘TODAY I FEEL GAY, I FEEL DISABLED, I FEEL A MIGRANT WORKER’

"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 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.

“Of urse I am not Qatari, I am not an Arab, I am not Ain, I am not gay, I am not disabled.

‘I FEEL GAY, DISABLED … LIKE A WOMAN TOO!’: INFANTO MAK BIZARRE ATTACK ON CRICS

”) 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? 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 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.

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

”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.

“You want to stay at home and say how bad they are, the Arabs, the Mlims, bee ’s not allowed to be publicly gay.

‘TODAY I FEEL GAY, I FEEL DISABLED': FIFA PRINT GIANNI INFANTO AT WORLD CUP

Swanson, a former Sky Sports reporter, said: “I am stg here as a gay man Qatar. “Jt bee he [Infanto] is not gay, do not mean he do not re.

‘TODAY I FEEL GAY’: FIFA PRINT GO ON BONKERS RANT FENSE OF QATAR AHEAD OF WORLD CUP

I have a number of gay lleagu. "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. Somethg went try aga InfantoSwiss-Italian football admistrator Fifa print Gianni Infanto claimed “today I feel gay” as he sld wtern media for givg “moral lsons” over the ntroversial Qatar World Cup. He also fend the natn's stance on gay rights, cludg s laws that crimalize homosexualy, askg “How many gay people were prosecuted Europe?

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

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. “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.

FIFA PRINT SAYS HE FEELS ‘GAY AND DISABLED’ ATTACK ON QATAR WORLD CUP CRICS

The sheikhdom has a large number of migrant workers, crimaliz homosexualy and rtricts the rights of rights anizatns cludg Amnty Internatnal and Human Rights Watch have timated that the ath toll of migrant workers buildg World Cup facili is the thoands, a number Qatar has disputed. ”‘Very welg’Some fans have said they plan to boytt the gam, pecially those the LGBTQ muny, bee of Qatar’s laws on homosexualy. “Do you want to stay home and hammer and cricize and say how bad they are, the Arabs or the Mlims or whatever, bee ’s not allowed to be publicly gay?

FIFA HEAD REBUFFS CRICS, SAYS ‘I FEEL’ LIKE GAY PEOPLE OR MIGRANTS

“You do not know what feels like to be gay, Infanto, you do not know what feels like to be Ain, and you nnot nflate beg discrimated agast bee of red hair and eckl to what any of the groups you’ve jt referenced have experienced, ” Sky Sports reporter Melissa Reddy said a broadst om Qatar posted to Twter.

“Of urse, I am not Qatari, I am not an Arab, I am not Ain, I am not gay, I am not disabled.

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.

'TODAY I FEEL GAY, DISABLED, LIKE A MIGRANT WORKER' – GIANNI INFANTO TELLS EUROPE TO STOP WORLD CUP ‘MORAL LSONS’

" “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.

'TODAY I FEEL GAY... TODAY I FEEL DISABLED' - FIFA PRINT INFANTO LIVERS EXTRAORDARY & NTROVERSIAL SPEECH AHEAD OF WORLD CUP OPENER

” 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. 18 Qatar, where homosexualy is illegal, wh imprisonment of up to three years prison and the possibily of the ath penalty (“Penalti vary Qatar, wh the maximum beg stong to ath.

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

Item: The private publishg partner of The New York Tim, Dar Al Sharq, has repeatedly removed articl the ternatnal prt edn of The New York Tim published Qatar related to lbian, gay, bisexual, and transgenr rights, Human Rights Watch reports. Item: “Some of the Welsh natnal football team’s staff will not travel to the World Cup Qatar bee of the untry’s stance on gay rights, ” the BBC reported. “Head of Welsh football Noel Mooney said the team would e the event as a ‘platform’ to discs human rights Qatar, where homosexualy is illegal.

Twenty other hotels said they would acmodate them as long as they did not publicly show that they were gay, and 33 hotels had no problem wh bookg same-sex upl.

FIFA CELEBRAT PRI, MONTHS BEFORE HOLDG WORLD CUP WHERE BEG GAY IS ILLEGAL

DOHA, Qatar — Gianni Infanto said he feels gay.

”Sce then, ernment misters and senr World Cup anizg 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 cricized for laws that crimalize homosexualy, lim some eedoms for women and do not offer cizenship to migrants.

“How many gay people were prosecuted Europe?

FIFA PRINT BLASTS CRICISM OF QATAR WORLD CUP AS ‘HYPOCRISY’: ‘TODAY I FEEL GAY. TODAY I FEEL DISABLED. TODAY I FEEL A MIGRANT WORKER.’

Perhaps that will e, but at this pot, we’re seeg (at most) d dignatn om soccer’s world erng body over each untry’s anti-homosexualy legislatn, wh print Sepp Blatter at one time gog so far to say potential gay fans at Qatar 2022 should “rea om sexual activy. Rsia recently enacted legislatn outlawg public displays of homosexualy, while Qatar bans homosexualy altogether. It’s not like Qatar wasn’t anti-gay when World Cup 2022 was FIFA, as a whole, to get tougher on discrimatn is a posive step by the taskforce.