The day before the World Cup begs, FIFA head Gianni Infanto addrsed human-rights ncerns by sayg: "Today I feel gay ... I feel disabled ... I feel a migrant worker.”
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'
- FIFA BOSS BRAND 'NUMPTY' FOR PARG HIS GGER HAIR TO BEG GAY QATAR
- ‘TODAY I FEEL GAY’: FIFA PRINT GO ON BONKERS RANT FENSE OF QATAR AHEAD OF WORLD CUP
- 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!
- FIFA HEAD REBUFFS CRICS, SAYS ‘I FEEL’ LIKE GAY PEOPLE OR MIGRANTS
- FIFA PRINT SAYS HE FEELS ‘GAY AND DISABLED’ ATTACK ON QATAR WORLD CUP CRICS
- ‘I FEEL GAY.’ FIFA BOSS BLASTS HYPOCRISY OF WTERN NATNS STARTLG TIRA
- 'TODAY I FEEL GAY, DISABLED, LIKE A MIGRANT WORKER' – GIANNI INFANTO TELLS EUROPE TO STOP WORLD CUP ‘MORAL LSONS’
- FIFA PRINT SAYS GAYS SHOULD REA OM HOMOSEXUALY DURG QATAR WORLD CUP
- A GAY GIRL’S GUI TO THE 2023 WOMEN’S WORLD CUP
- 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 FEEL GAY', FIFA CHIEF ATTEMPTS TO EMPATHISE WH MARGALISED
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'. * fifa president gay *
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. "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.
FIFA PRINT GIANNI INFANTO AT WORLD CUP: ‘TODAY I FEEL GAY, I FEEL DISABLED, I FEEL A MIGRANT WORKER’
* fifa president gay *
"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.
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.
”) 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. TODAY, I FEEL DISABLED,” SAYS FIFA’S PRINT, WHO IS NEHER
FIFA print Gianni Infanto had said he 'feels gay' a bewilrg speech about Qatar World Cup crics. * fifa president gay *
Today, I feel gay.
‘I FEEL GAY, DISABLED … LIKE A WOMAN TOO!’: INFANTO MAK BIZARRE ATTACK ON CRICS
FIFA print Gianni Infanto livered a startlg pre-World Cup speech, sayg "I feel gay ... I feel like a migrant worker." * fifa president 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.
”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.
FIFA PRINT'S QATAR COMMENTS SPARK ONLE CRICISM: 'TODAY I FEEL GAY'
Sepp Blatter, the print of FIFA, has dismissed ncerns that Qatar is unsuable to host the 2022 World Cup bee of s attu to homosexualy sayg that gay football fans should rea om havg homsexual sex while the untry. * fifa president gay *
“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. “Jt bee he [Infanto] is not gay, do not mean he do not re.
FIFA BOSS BRAND 'NUMPTY' FOR PARG HIS GGER HAIR TO BEG GAY QATAR
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. 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 GAY’: FIFA PRINT GO ON BONKERS RANT FENSE OF QATAR AHEAD OF WORLD CUP
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, 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.
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!
” 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.
” 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.
He also fend the natn's stance on gay rights, cludg s laws that crimalize homosexualy, askg “How many gay people were prosecuted Europe? FIFA print Gianni Infanto has been slammed for his shockg "I feel Ain, gay, disabled and migrant worker" speech. Today I feel Gay.
FIFA HEAD REBUFFS CRICS, SAYS ‘I FEEL’ LIKE GAY PEOPLE OR MIGRANTS
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?
“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. ’ 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.
“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. 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...
FIFA PRINT SAYS HE FEELS ‘GAY AND DISABLED’ ATTACK ON QATAR WORLD CUP CRICS
"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. The print of FIFA feels gay and disabled. “Of urse, I am not Qatari, I am not an Arab, I am not Ain, I am not gay, I am not disabled.
DOHA, Qatar (AP) — Gianni Infanto said he feels gay. Qatar 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?
‘I FEEL GAY.’ FIFA BOSS BLASTS HYPOCRISY OF WTERN NATNS STARTLG TIRA
He was termed to ll out what he perceiv as crics' hypocrisy - liverg a moral lecture of his seemed to be a reference to lonialism when he claimed Europeans had no right to cricise Qatar - and should be apologisg stead for their own nduct for the next 3, 000 attempt to show empathy appeared performative when he said, bizarrely: "Today I feel gay… today I feel [like] a migrant worker. Sepp Blatter, the print of FIFA, has dismissed ncerns that Qatar is unsuable to host the 2022 World Cup bee of s attu to homosexualy sayg that gay football fans should rea om havg homsexual sex while the untry.
The ty untry punish homosexualy wh up to five years prison or lash. Last week, gay football groups said gay fans would be unable to travel to the Qatar for the gam bee of s opprsive laws.
'TODAY I FEEL GAY, DISABLED, LIKE A MIGRANT WORKER' – GIANNI INFANTO TELLS EUROPE TO STOP WORLD CUP ‘MORAL LSONS’
The Gay Football Supporters’ Network said would boytt all activi related to the 2022 World Cup, although LGBTory suggted that the attentn on the untry uld persua to bee more tolerant. When asked about gay football fans visg Qatar, he is said to have joked: “I would say they should rea om any sexual activi. It will be a glor month to be a gay fan.
Last time at the 2019 Women’s World Cup, the Netherlands lay claim to the honor of beg the team wh the most out LGBTQ players, but this year Atralia boasts 10 out players and overtak them for the tle of Gayt Team 2k23. Ireland’s historic entry to the tournament marks another triumph for out midfielr Sead Farrelly, whose natnal team but and 2023 return to the NWSL e more than six years after retirg om soccer the wake of systemic homophobic and sexual abe wh the league, which the Athletic first reported on 2021.
Captas, cludg England skipper Millie Bright, have been banned - jt like the men Qatar - om beg allowed to wear "One Love" multiloured armbands featurg a would have obliquely referenced LGBTQ+ rights wh so many players out as gay at the tournament, cludg Atralia pta Sam Kerr, who said: "Obvly, we would have liked to have worn , but I'm not gog to put this team at risk. Perhaps FIFA was unwillg to ve aga havg dropped Vis Sdi as a tournament sponsor unr prsure om Atralia and New Zealand, as well as the players, over the kgdom's anti-gay lobbyg ma clear the players won't be silenced on a platform they were nied for so long.