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THE Cup boss was branded ‘absolutely appalling’ yesterday after ranting about feeling gay and disabled and demanding racist Europeans apologise for colonialism.
In a bizarre outburst, Fifa president Gianni Infantino hit out at Qatar’s critics, labelling attacks against the host country over gay rights and migrant worker deaths ‘profoundly unjust’. But he was immediately condemned for ‘colluding with despots’. To gasps from the audience at the National Convention Centre in Doha, Infantino declared he ‘feels disabled, gay and like a migrant worker’ and knew what it was like to be discriminated against because he was bullied for his red hair as a child. Fifa has been castigated for granting the World Cup to Qatar, where being gay is illegal and thousands of migrant workers are said to have died building the stadiums. But the SwissItalian, 52, apparently referring to colonialism, raged: ‘I think for what we Europeans have been doing the last 3,000 years we should be apologising for [the] next 3,000 years before starting to give moral lessons to people.’ Last night, he was lambasted from all sides. Gay rights campaigner Peter Tatchell said: ‘It’s absolutely appalling. I have no doubt that he was pressured by the Qataris to say this.’ Human rights activist Mustafa Qadri added that the rant was ‘an insult’ to all the workers who made the World Cup possible.