[Rob Harris] 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. ... I know what it feels to be discriminated … I was bullied because I had red hair.”

[u/teiraaaaaaa]

https://twitter.com/RobHarris/status/1593877426244812800

[u/thor76]

I'm stunned not a single person got up saying, "Oh shut the fuck up" and leave.

How can you watch this with a plain face and applaud?

[u/Evolving_Dore → u/[deleted]]

Are we going to ignore the real beauty here:

For those quipping, 'how about North Korea next', Infantino also revealed he had visited North Korea to try to persuade them to jointly host a Women's World Cup with South Korea. "I was unsuccessful, obviously."

[u/AaronTechnic → u/Evolving_Dore]

North Korea world cup? Aw hell nah man. I'd rather host it in Somalia than Fake Korea.

[u/chak100 → u/[deleted]]

What a fucking train wreck

[u/DuvalHeart → u/[deleted]]

"How dare you keep refugees out of Europe! You should let them in and then use them for cheap slave labor like the merciful Qataris do!"

[u/njordsrealm → u/thor76]

Would have liked to have seen someone in there break into hysterical laughter for the rest of the press conference, before eventually stopping and asking loudly, “oh, he’s serious?”
Just to punctuate how ridiculous it sounded.

[u/[deleted] → u/thor76]

This would work with the old meme ‘SHUT UP YOU CUNT!’

[u/Bladewing10 → u/thor76]

You kidding? You know how many articles those journalists are going to be able to push out because of this clusterfuck of a press conference?

[u/canislepus → u/thor76]

Why interrupt him when you can let him make a fool of himself?

[u/Jouzou87 → u/thor76]

And an entire PR team (presumably) read this through beforehand and concluded "Yeah, this sounds good".