FIFA boss Gianni Infantino told reporters that Qatar would host the 'best World Cup ever' during a speech in which he said he felt 'Arab', 'African' and 'gay'.
abc.net.au/news/fifa-gianni-infantino-hits-out-at-european-critics-world-cup-qat/101675308FIFA president Gianni Infantino targeted European critics of World Cup host Qatar on Saturday and suggested a moral double standard in his home continent.
"What we Europeans have been doing for the past 3,000 years we should be apologising for the next 3,000 years before we start giving moral lessons to people," Infantino said to hundreds of international media."Today I feel Qatari," Infantino said.Infantino related the criticism to bullying and discrimination he said he experienced as a child of Italian parents who moved to work in Switzerland.
Migrant labourers who built Qatar's World Cup stadiums often worked long hours under harsh conditions and were subjected to discrimination, wage theft and other abuses as their employers evaded accountability, London-based rights group Equidem said in a 75-page report released this month. Under heavy international scrutiny, Qatar has enacted a number of labour reforms in recent years that have been praised by Equidem and other rights groups."What has been put on the table in the past few months is something quite incredible," the FIFA leader said of criticism of Qatar from Western media.Gianni Infantino said the about turn on selling of beer in stadiums was not an issue.
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