We can safely say that there are two parallel stories ahead of this World Cup. The one is about football – the groups, the teams, the injuries, the hype, the missing players… But there is another one – about human rights, about treating the migrant workers in Qatar, about the LGBT population, about the lack of beer. This football tournament is without a doubt the most controversial one in the history of football. And today, one day before it all begins, FIFA president Gianni Infantino decided to give his opinion. And his opinion is – you are all hypocrites.FIFA President Gianni Infantino at news conference in Qatar: “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” pic.twitter.com/1flQtGWAfS— Rob Harris (@RobHarris) November 19, 2022 The Swiss-Italian president talked at the press conference and basically defended the hosts and labeled the Western world as ‘hypocrites’.”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. 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” said the president of the world football’s governing body.Rudiger to donate World Cup money to fund surgeries for children in Sierra LeoneInfantino also supported the communities hit by injustice and gave his own example.”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. I was bullied because I had red hair. It takes me back to my personal story, because I am the son of migrant workers. I know what it means to be discriminated against, to be harassed, as a foreigner. As a child, I was discriminated against in Switzerland because I was red and I had freckles, I I was Italian, I spoke German badly” said Infantino.Group H – CR7’s last dance; the Black Stars, the Navigators and the Tigers all seek revenge on the UrusFIFA president also addressed the issue of labor rights and migrant workers who built the stadiums and the supporting infrastructure and talked about the companies involved.”Among the big companies that earn billions in Qatar, how many have settled the issue of the fate of migrant workers? None, because a change in legislation means less profit. But we have done it. Why does no one recognize this progress?” he said. Qatar officials say their country has been the target of “racism” and “double standards”. They point to the reforms on working conditions and safety that have been hailed as groundbreaking in the Gulf region. The World Cup kicks off on Sunday when host nation Qatar take on Ecuador in the opening match.##NAJAVA_MECA_6824777##
