“I do not have to defend Qatar, ‘I am defending football and injustice”-FIFA president Gianni Infantino lashes out at the critics of the 2022 FIFA World Cup
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Gianni Infantino during a press conference.
FIFA president Gianni Infantino sat for a press conference ahead of the opening of the FIFA World Cup on Saturday and he has got the world talking. He made some statements that expressed his support for the LGBTQ community and migrant workers around the world as the human rights issues were circulating for the last few weeks in the country.
He said, “Today I feel Qatari, today I feel Arab, today I feel African, today I feel gay, today I feel disabled, today I feel a migrant worker. This moral lesson giving one-sided is just hypocrisy. I don’t want to give you any lessons of life, but what is going on here is profoundly, profoundly unjust.”
He added, “Everyone who comes to Qatar is welcome, whatever religion, race, sexual orientation, belief she or he has, everyone is welcome. This was our requirement and the Qatari state sticks to that requirement. For what we Europeans have been doing for the last 3,000 years we should apologize for the next 3,000 years before starting giving moral lessons to people.“
What was Infantino’s take on the beer ban at the stadiums in Qatar?
The World Cup chiefs issued a statement on Friday saying that beer sales around stadiums will be banned just 48 hours before the start of the tournament. Gianni Infantino spoke about the alcohol ban and said that the fans can easily live for three hours without beer around the stadiums.
He also said, “I think personally if for three hours a day you cannot drink a beer, you will survive, the same applies in France, Spain, Scotland.” As alcohol is prohibited in Islamic nations and the chiefs declared, “removing sales points of beer from Qatar’s FIFA World Cup 2022 stadium perimeters”.
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