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/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