FIFA president Gianni Infantino said on Saturday that he felt “Arab”, “gay” and “a migrant worker”, sharply criticizing the “moral lessons” of Qatari critics, which he called “hypocrisy”. .
“Today I feel Qatari, I feel Arab, today I feel African, today I feel gay, today I feel disabled, today I feel like a migrant worker,” he said in a long and theatrical monologue at a press conference, quoted by Agence France. Presse (AFP), on the eve of starting the 2022 World Cup in Qatar.
“It brings me back to my personal history, because I am the son of migrant workers,” said Gianni Infantino, adding that he knows what it means to be discriminated against, harassed, as a foreigner.
“As a child I was discriminated against (in Switzerland) because I had red hair and freckles, I was Italian, I spoke bad German,” he added.
Given the multiple criticisms that FIFA has been subjected to for the working conditions of workers at the World Cup venues, Gianni Infantino said that the international federation is one of the few concerned about their fate.
“What is happening right now is deeply, deeply unfair,” he told reporters at the news conference.
In his opinion, “criticism of the World Cup is hypocritical.”
“For what we Europeans have done in the last 3,000 years, we must apologize for the next 3,000 years before giving moral lessons to others. These moral lessons are pure hypocrisy”, stressed the FIFA president.
Source: TSF
