The president of FIFA, Gianni Infantinohe said he felt “Arab”, “gay”, “migrant worker”, during the inaugural press conference of World Cup 2022 on Saturday in Doha.
“Now I feel Qatari, now I feel Arab, now I feel African, now I feel gay, now I feel disabled, now I feel migrant worker,” he recited in his opening monologue. The organizers of the World Cup have been the target of violent criticism of human rights and discrimination, especially LGBTQ +, as the start of the tournament, tomorrow Sunday, approaches.
Infantino also denounced the “moral lessons” as “hypocrisy”. “What is happening right now is deeply, deeply unfair,” he told reporters at the opening news conference. “Criticism of the World Cup is hypocritical.” “For what we Europeans have done in the past 3,000 years, we must apologize for the next 3,000 years before giving moral lessons to others. These moral lessons are just hypocrisy,” he said, shouting.
“What we Europeans have been doing for the last 3,000 years, we must apologize for the next 3,000 years before we start giving moral lessons to people,” Infantino told hundreds of international media. And he said Qatar and the capital, Doha, would be ready to host “the best World Cup in history.”
Source: La Verdad
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