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- FIFA PRINT GIANNI INFANTO AT WORLD CUP: ‘TODAY I FEEL GAY, I FEEL DISABLED, I FEEL A MIGRANT WORKER’
- ‘I FEEL GAY, DISABLED … LIKE A WOMAN TOO!’: INFANTO MAK BIZARRE ATTACK ON CRICS
- “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 LKSHARETOPICS
- ‘TODAY I FEEL GAY, I FEEL DISABLED': FIFA PRINT GIANNI INFANTO AT WORLD CUP
- ‘TODAY I FEEL GAY ... I FEEL DISABLED’: GLUM FIFA PRINT GIANNI INFANTO GO ON BIZARRE RANT TO FEND QATAR
- FIFA PRINT GIANNI INFANTO SAYS ‘I FEEL QATARI, I FEEL AIN, I FEEL GAY, I FEEL DISABLED’ BIZARRE PRS NFERENCE SPEECH ON EVE OF 2022 WORLD CUP
- “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
- 'I FEEL GAY, ARAB AND DISABLED': FIFA BOSS INFANTO'S BIZARRE FENCE OF QATAR AHEAD OF WORLD CUP
- "TODAY I FEEL GAY. TODAY I FEEL DISABLED": FIFA PRINT GIANNI INFANTO SAYS EUROPEANS SHOULD 'APOLOGISE' BEFORE CRICISG QATAR DURG BIZARRE RANTFIFA BOSS GIANNI INFANTO SAYS EUROPE SHOULD APOLOGISE FOR S OWN HISTORYMENBOOKMARKSHARECOMMENTSSPORTBYNILE WOOTTON-CANEREPORTER11:26, 19 NOV 2022UPDATED11:28, 19 NOV 2022BOOKMARK (IMAGE: GETTY IMAG)SIGN UP FOR OUR DAILY NEWSLETTER TO GET THE DAY'S BIGGT STORI SENT DIRECT TO YOUR BOXMORE 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 SIGN UP FOR OUR DAILY NEWSLETTER TO GET THE DAY'S BIGGT STORI SENT DIRECT TO YOUR BOXINVALID 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 PRINT GIANNI INFANTO AT WORLD CUP: ‘TODAY I FEEL GAY, I FEEL DISABLED, I FEEL A MIGRANT WORKER’
Fifa print Gianni Infanto claimed “today I feel gay” as he sld wtern media for givg “moral lsons” over the ntroversial Qatar World Cup. Source: Rters * i am gay i am disabled fifa *
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. 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. 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.
‘I FEEL GAY, DISABLED … LIKE A WOMAN TOO!’: INFANTO MAK BIZARRE ATTACK ON CRICS
“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.
“TODAY, I FEEL GAY. TODAY, I FEEL DISABLED,” SAYS FIFA’S PRINT, WHO IS NEHER
I have a number of gay lleagu. ”) 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.
'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 LKSHARETOPICS
“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.
"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, I FEEL DISABLED': FIFA PRINT GIANNI INFANTO AT WORLD CUP
The InpenntThe InpenntNovember 19, 2022 at 3:05 PMFifa print Gianni Infanto claimed “today I feel gay” as he sld wtern media for givg “moral lsons” over the ntroversial Qatar World Cup.
Homosexualy Qatar is illegal and punishable by up to three years prison, but the FIFA print promised that this was a tournament for everyone.
"Of urse I am not Qatari, I am not an Arab, I am not Ain, I am not gay, I am not disabled. “I expected that Infanto would probably try and dodge any qutns about the migrant workers, about the fact ’s illegal to be openly gay here Qatar, but he addrsed that and said, ‘As FIFA print I believe publicly you should be allowed to be gay’, but he did say that if you asked his father, who is no longer wh , he might give you a different answer.
‘TODAY I FEEL GAY ... I FEEL DISABLED’: GLUM FIFA PRINT GIANNI INFANTO GO ON BIZARRE RANT TO FEND QATAR
I am gay as are many other lleagu at FIFA and I have always felt supported. "I am stg here a privileged posn on a global stage as a gay man here Qatar. 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, I am not an Arab, I am not Ain, I am not gay, I am not disabled. The head of FIFA has been cricised for a bizarre speech fendg Qatar ahead of the World Cup, which he said he feels gay, Arab and disabled, among several other inti.
FIFA PRINT GIANNI INFANTO SAYS ‘I FEEL QATARI, I FEEL AIN, I FEEL GAY, I FEEL DISABLED’ BIZARRE PRS NFERENCE SPEECH ON EVE OF 2022 WORLD CUP
Qatar has been slammed for s treatment of gay people and mori, but FIFA chief Gianni Infanto said on Saturday that European people should not judge other add that he unrstood what was like to face discrimatn bee he had red hair and eckl as a of the openg game of the tournament on Sunday, Mr Infanto said: "We have told many, many lsons om some Europeans, om the wtern Italian add: "I thk for what we Europeans have been dog the last 3, 000 years we should be apologisg for next 3, 000 years before startg to give moral lsons to people.