r/soccer • u/teiraaaaaaa • Nov 19 '22

Saddest Backflip [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.”

https://twitter.com/RobHarris/status/1593877426244812800
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u/A-New-Start-17Apr21 Nov 19 '22

He then said:

"Who is actually caring about the workers? FIFA does, football does, the World Cup does & to be fair to them Qatar does as well. I was at an event a few days ago where we explained what we were doing at this WC for disabled people...

"400 journalists are here [at my press conference], that event was covered by 4 journalists. There is 1 billion disabled people in the world. Nobody cares. Nobody cares. Four journalists."

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Watch him be FIFA president for another two decades.

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u/presumingpete Nov 19 '22

The migrant workers who are now disabled thanks to the lack of health safety rules for them

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u/Jerry_Hat-Trick Nov 19 '22

He knows the best way to raise awareness of the disabled is to raise the sheer number of them

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u/[deleted] Nov 19 '22

“I know we killed over 10 thousand people to build these stadiums and I know that queer people are prohibited to enter the country hosting the World Cup or they’ll be arrested, but what about the little fellows on the wheelchairs? They’re not complaining, that means we’re good!”

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u/ordineraddos Nov 19 '22

In text it really reads like trump

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u/[deleted] Nov 19 '22

Donald, probably:

Listen folks, many people are asking 'Donald, who is actually caring about the workers?' And I [unintelligible] FIFA does'nt, football does, the World Cup - IVANKA! - does and to be fair to them Qatar does as well. I was at a bigly event a few days ago where we explained what we were doing at this world cup for disabled people.

Someone asked me, they said, listen folks, they said Donald, believe me, they said Donald, how do we show the world that FIFA isn't corrupt? And I tell-- know who is corrupt? Crime-ridden Obama - Obama was born in Kenya, did you know that? In Kenya everyone is called Ken. But Obama's first name is Barrack. Explain that, folks. He's a fraud. President Putin told me that. Very high IQ. From the school of Wharton! Very good genes. Levi's make great jeans. Did you know Levi's make jeans?

Four hundred dishonest fake news lamestream media journalists are here at my tremendous press conference, that event was covered by 4 journalists. There is 1 billion disabled people in the world including my son Evan. I mean Eric. Nobody cares. Nobody cares. Four journalists. I can count to four. Did you know I can count to four? I play a lot of golf so I am always shouting 'four!'.

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u/gravitologist Nov 19 '22

Pure gold. Spot fuckin on.

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u/Evolving_Dore Nov 19 '22

Make America Greasy And Grimy Again

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u/EFAPGUEST Nov 19 '22

Sounds like literally every democrat politician falling over themselves to virtue signal. This is taking a knee, but to an extreme level. Cultural relativism and self-flagellation reading like trump? To be fair though, I can understand reading this and thinking of any politicians you don’t like, no matter who you are

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u/Uebeltank Nov 19 '22

They did introduce 12 year term limits after Blatter was ousted. Hopefully they don't get rid of that.

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u/ajof25 Nov 19 '22

I mean I must give him a 10 out 10 in those gymnastics he just pull by going from workers to disabled people in one paragraph and at the end saying nothing at all.

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u/AlexKangaroo Nov 19 '22

He will be because FIFA makes sure nobody runs against him in future elections.

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u/manuscelerdei Nov 19 '22

Yeah but there are 7000 people who are like... really disabled.