'I feel gay, Arab and disabled': FIFA boss Infanto's ramblg fence of Qatari regime... - LBC

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’
• FIFA MUNITNS DIRECTOR OUT AS GAY AMID QATAR NTROVERSY
• WORLD CUP 2022, GAY ATHLET AND LGBTQ CLN
• 'I FEEL GAY, ARAB AND DISABLED': FIFA BOSS INFANTO'S BIZARRE FENCE OF QATAR AHEAD OF WORLD CUP
• 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
• FIFA BOSS GIANNI INFANTO SLAMS WORLD CUP CRICS BIZARRE SPEECH: 'I FEEL QATARI, I FEEL ARAB, I FEEL GAY'
• FIFA WOMEN’S WORLD CUP 2023: NZ PTA ALI RILEY GO VIRAL AS ‘STRAIGHT, GAY IN’ AS SHE SUBTLY PROTTS RABOW ARMBAND LG
• FIFA HEAD REBUFFS CRICS, SAYS ‘I FEEL’ LIKE GAY PEOPLE OR MIGRANTS

'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.

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

"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.

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.

FIFA MUNITNS DIRECTOR OUT AS GAY AMID QATAR NTROVERSY

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. Gay, lbian, bisexual, trans and queer soccer players who are publicly out — now at least 96 total — make over 13% of all the athlet petg the 2023 FIFA Women’s World Cup Atralia and New Zealand, Outsports has found.

Countri like Nigeria and Zambia imprison gay people.

WORLD CUP 2022, GAY ATHLET AND LGBTQ CLN

Still ’s hearteng to see some women om South Ai, where homosexualy has been legal for 25 years. FIFA's Director of Media Relatns, Bryan Swanson revealed that he is gay right on stage at the prs nference of FIFA Print Gianni Infanto on the eve of the World Cup openg ceremony. Same-sex relatnships are crimalised the the small Middle-Eastern natn, and this has been a major topic of discsn leadg up to the fans, players and other members of the football muny have been raisg ncerns about the safety of those travellg to Qatar pecially if they are openly gay.

"I have spent some time at Gianni's si workg alongsi Infanto and I have always felt supported and helped, I am gay as are many other lleagu at FIFA and I have always felt supported, " he said while onstage at the prs nference which was held ahead of the World Cup openg ceremony. ? "I am stg here a privileged posn on a global stage as a gay man Qatar. Swanson went on to make clear that his tentn is to let the world know that ntrary to the cricism, Infanto is fact very supportive of gay lleagu.

'I FEEL GAY, ARAB AND DISABLED': FIFA BOSS INFANTO'S BIZARRE FENCE OF QATAR AHEAD OF WORLD CUP

"I am stg here a privileged posn on a global stage as a gay man here Qatar. FIFA vtigatg Mexi anti-gay chant before team was booted om the World Cup. Mexi gave up the elimatg goal jt sends after their fans chanted the gay slur yet aga.

This gay Brish sports mister stood up to Qatar and FIFA and wore rabows at the World Cup.

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

Iran murrs men for beg gay and kills women who step out of le. This gay Qatari started an LGBTQ soccer fan group to expose abe his home untry. Qatar don’t hate rabow lors, hat gay people.

FIFA BOSS GIANNI INFANTO SLAMS WORLD CUP CRICS BIZARRE SPEECH: 'I FEEL QATARI, I FEEL ARAB, I FEEL GAY'

There are 0 out gay players at the men’s World Cup. The Outsports gay-iendly World Cup rankgs of all 32 teams.

Qatar’s World Cup ambassador says homosexualy is ‘damage the md’. Official tells gay fans to tone down Qatar. FIFA celebrat Pri, months before holdg World Cup where beg gay is illegal.

FIFA is all rabows this month, but the fall s premier event is Qatar, where homosexualy is agast the law.

FIFA WOMEN’S WORLD CUP 2023: NZ PTA ALI RILEY GO VIRAL AS ‘STRAIGHT, GAY IN’ AS SHE SUBTLY PROTTS RABOW ARMBAND LG

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. 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.

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

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.

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

”‘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.