The Fifa president, Gianni Infantino, has hit back at criticism of Qatar from Europe in a press conference on the eve of the World Cup
The Swiss-born Infantino then compared his struggles growing up with red hair and freckles as a child of migrant workers as helping him understand what ordinary Qataris were going through.
Later it was pointed out that he had missed out half the world’s population. “I feel like a woman too!” he added.in Qatar since preparations for the World Cup began. Infantino insisted, however, that Fifa had been a guiding light in helping Qatar improve the situation for migrant workers by scrapping thesystem that barred workers from changing jobs without their employer’s permission, introducing a minimum wage and heat protections – before accusing the west of being hypocritical.
He added: “If Europe would really care about the destiny of these young people, Europe could do as Qatar did, create some legal channels, where at least a number, a percentage of these workers could come. This moral lesson, one-sided, it is just hypocrisy. I wonder why nobody recognises the progress that has been made since 2016?”
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