World Cup 2022: Fifa president Gianni Infantino accuses West of 'hypocrisy'

[Scott]

 

Fifa president Gianni Infantino has accused the West of "hypocrisy" in its reporting about Qatar's human rights record, on the eve of the World Cup.

In an extraordinary monologue at a news conference in Doha, Infantino spoke for nearly an hour and made a passionate defence of Qatar and the tournament.

 

The event has been overshadowed by issues in Qatar including deaths of migrant workers and treatment of LGBT people.

https://www.bbc.com/sport/football/63687412

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[thaibeachlovers]

What else would he say? They should have known all that before awarding the games to Qatar.

 

I've seen a bit about it on Al Jazeera and they must have spent a phenomenal amount of money on it, but one wonders what they are going to do with all those sports stadiums afterwards.

[herfiehandbag]

1 hour ago, Scott said:

Fifa president Gianni Infantino has accused the West of "hypocrisy"

[RayC]

2 hours ago, thaibeachlovers said:

What else would he say? They should have known all that before awarding the games to Qatar.

 

I've seen a bit about it on Al Jazeera and they must have spent a phenomenal amount of money on it, but one wonders what they are going to do with all those sports stadiums afterwards.

Dismantle (at least one of) them.

[stevenl]

Of course he is defending. They are one of the worst organisations where the only thing that counts is money.

[Bluespunk]

Methinks the official from the corrupt body doth protest too much.

 

So much fecal matter in that rant that he could fertilize a small nation.

[RayC]

2 hours ago, stevenl said:

Of course he is defending. They are one of the worst organisations where the only thing that counts is money.

I would add 'power'.

[JonnyF]

His surname is quite appropriate. 

 

His monologue was quite a stretch. I wonder if rants like this will become the new justification for abuses around the world. "Don't criticize us for having slaves because the West had them a few centuries ago".

 

They seem to conveniently forget the contribution the West made to ending slavery, to advancing technology, medicine etc. 

 

Still, all these mental gymnastics are quite amusing. Champagne socialists Neville and Lineker justifying earning huge salaries for going there and covering the tournament, Southgate continuing to virtue signal meaninglessly. It's quite the show.

[thaibeachlovers]

On 11/20/2022 at 1:08 PM, thaibeachlovers said:

What else would he say? They should have known all that before awarding the games to Qatar.

 

I've seen a bit about it on Al Jazeera and they must have spent a phenomenal amount of money on it, but one wonders what they are going to do with all those sports stadiums afterwards.

Al Jazeera has become the "world cup" channel, but I learned that at least one of the stadiums is temporary, and one is beside the education zone, so might be used by students. Allowing for the pre exisiting national stadium, that's still 5 massive stadiums in a country with a small population.

[James105]

9 minutes ago, thaibeachlovers said:

Al Jazeera has become the "world cup" channel, but I learned that at least one of the stadiums is temporary, and one is beside the education zone, so might be used by students. Allowing for the pre exisiting national stadium, that's still 5 massive stadiums in a country with a small population.

It's not just the population size, it's also a country without any culture of football so the stadiums built at huge cost, built by migrant labour in unbearably hot conditions are literally going to be used for just this 4 weeks.   Qatar initially promised they would build "12 air conditioned stadiums" so that the competition could be held in summer as normal (another obvious and predictable lie).    Since Qatar will be unceremoniously dumped out of the World Cup in the group stage (as even though they are hosting they shouldn't really be entering a team for this due to their incredibly low standard of football) and then the Qatari people will go back to not caring about football after the first week.    Greta also seems unusually quiet about the carbon cost of needing to build all this stuff that every other country (and there are lots of them) with a culture of football already has and could have been used.  

 

The decision to host it in Qatar 12 years ago seems as ridiculous today as it did back then (obviously based on bribe money) and everything that was predicted came to pass.   I'm always baffled as to why they are so reluctant to let England host it again, a country with a football culture that would not need to build a single new stadium to accommodate it.   I remember England was one of the bidders for this one, but Blatter said that USA was second choice even though they had hosted it as recently as 1994.   

 

The next joke is that for the 2030 world cup that Spain/Portugal have bid for (which makes sense as those countries are literally next door to each other) is now a Spain/Portugal/Ukraine(!) bid, for all the obvious virtue signalling reasons you can imagine.