Gianni Infantino – President of FIFA – gave a bizarre speech in Qatar ahead of the World Cup‘s opening game on Sunday.
Just hours before Qatar get the tournament underway against Ecuador, the 52-year-old embarrassed himself in front of the world with a terrible monologue, in which he claimed he feels “gay” and also “disabled” in a strange attempt to relate himself to the oppressed.
Gianni Infantino speech in Qatar makes headlines
Well, we thought Sepp Blatter was bad, but Infantino’s speech is memorably worse than anything the 86-year-old ever said on the global stage.
In full, the headline quotes from the FIFA President’s speech read: “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.”
After hearing what Infantino had said, Gary Lineker poked fun at the Swiss-Italian with a four-word tweet, mocking the simple nature of his quotes.
You can see what the BBC Match of the Day host wrote below.
Clearly, Lineker did not think much of the speech, as he opts to poke fun at Infantino’s comments.
Gianni Infantino speech is an insult
We can’t quite believe Infantino wrote that speech down, read it to himself, and still decided to share it with the entire planet.
It made the FIFA President look foolish, with his attempts to compare discrimination against homosexuality to himself being bullied for having red hair an insult to those who find themselves up against society on a daily basis.
This World Cup has already been an organisational disaster.
Fan camps look as though they were created in ten minutes, the entire domestic campaign has been disturbed because of it, and thousands have died creating the stadiums.
If Infantino was attempting to calm the storm with his speech, he did anything but that.
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