DOHA, Qatar (AP) — Gianni Infantino stated he feels homosexual. That he appears like a lady. That he appears like a migrant employee. He lectured Europeans for criticizing Qatar’s human rights document and defended the host nation’s last-minute choice to ban beer from World Cup stadiums.The FIFA president delivered a one-hour tirade on the eve of the World Cup’s opening match, after which spent about 45 minutes answering questions from media in regards to the Qatari authorities’s actions and a variety of different subjects.“At this time I really feel Qatari,” Infantino stated Saturday firstly of his first information convention of the World Cup. “At this time I really feel Arab. At this time I really feel African. At this time I really feel homosexual. At this time I really feel disabled. At this time I really feel a migrant employee.”Infantino later shot again at one reporter who seen he left ladies out of his uncommon declaration.“I really feel like a lady,” the FIFA president responded.Qatar has confronted a litany of criticism since 2010, when it was chosen by FIFA to host the largest soccer match on the earth.Migrant laborers who constructed Qatar’s World Cup stadiums usually labored lengthy hours beneath harsh situations and had been subjected to discrimination, wage theft and different abuses as their employers evaded accountability, London-based rights group Equidem stated in a 75-page report launched this month.Infantino defended the nation’s immigration coverage, and praised the federal government for bringing in migrants to work.“We in Europe, we shut our borders and we don’t permit virtually any employee from these international locations, who earn clearly very low earnings, to work legally in our international locations,” Infantino stated. “If Europe would actually care in regards to the future of those individuals, these younger individuals, then Europe might additionally do as Qatar did.“However give them some work. Give them some future. Give them some hope. However this moral-lesson giving, one-sided, it’s simply hypocrisy.”Qatar is ruled by a hereditary emir who has absolute say over all governmental choices and follows an ultraconservative type of Islam often known as Wahhabism. Lately, Qatar has been reworked following a pure fuel increase within the Nineties, nevertheless it has confronted stress from inside to remain true to its Islamic heritage and Bedouin roots. Beneath heavy worldwide scrutiny, Qatar has enacted plenty of labor reforms lately which have been praised by Equidem and different rights teams. However advocates say abuses are nonetheless widespread and that staff have few avenues for redress.Infantino, nonetheless, continued to hit the Qatari authorities’s speaking factors of turning criticism again onto the West.“What we Europeans have been doing for the previous 3,000 years we must be apologizing for the following 3,000 years earlier than we begin giving ethical classes to individuals,” stated Infantino, who moved final yr from Switzerland to reside in Doha forward of the World Cup.In response to his feedback, human rights group Amnesty Worldwide stated Infantino was “brushing apart professional human rights criticisms” by dismissing the value paid by migrant staff to make the match attainable and FIFA’s duty for it. “Calls for for equality, dignity and compensation can’t be handled as some form of tradition battle – they’re common human rights that FIFA has dedicated to respect in its personal statutes,” stated Steve Cockburn, Amnesty’s head of financial and social justice.QATAR’S PUSHBACKA televised speech by Qatar’s emir, Sheikh Tamim bin Hamad Al Thani, on Oct. 25 marked a turning level within the nation’s method to any criticism, claiming it had been “subjected to an unprecedented marketing campaign that no host nation has ever confronted.”Since then, authorities ministers and senior World Cup organizing employees have dismissed some European criticism as racism, and calls to create a compensation fund for the households of migrant staff as a publicity stunt.WHAT ABOUT EUROPE?Qatar has usually been criticized for legal guidelines that criminalize homosexuality, restrict some freedoms for ladies and don’t provide citizenship to migrants.“What number of homosexual individuals had been prosecuted in Europe?” Infantino stated, repeating earlier feedback that European international locations had related legal guidelines till latest generations. “Sorry, it was a course of. We appear to overlook.”He reminded that in a single area of Switzerland, ladies obtained the fitting to vote solely within the Nineties.He additionally chided European and North American international locations who he stated didn’t open their borders to welcome soccer-playing women and girls that FIFA and Qatar labored to assist depart Afghanistan final yr.Albania was the one nation that stepped up, he stated.“ONE LOVE”Seven of Europe’s 13 groups on the World Cup stated their captains will put on an anti-discrimination armband in video games in defiance of a FIFA rule, participating in a Dutch marketing campaign referred to as “One Love.”FIFA has declined to publicly remark considerably on that situation, or on the urging of European soccer federations for FIFA to help a compensation fund for the households of migrant staff.The ripostes got here Saturday.FIFA now has its personal armband designs, with extra generic slogans, in partnership with varied U.N. companies. Armbands for the group video games say: “FootballUnitesTheWorld,” “SaveThePlanet,” “ProtectChildren,” and “ShareTheMeal.”At quarterfinal video games, “NoDiscrimination” will probably be used.Not adequate, the German soccer federation stated a pair hours later, deciding to stick with the heart-shaped, multi-colored “One Love” armband brand.FIFA additionally desires to create a legacy fund from its revenues tied to this yr’s World Cup — and can let its critics, or anybody who desires, to contribute.“And people who make investments a specific amount will probably be a part of a board that may resolve the place the cash goes,” Infantino stated.Legacy funds from earlier World Cups went on to soccer within the host nation — $100 million from FIFA to South Africa in 2010 and Brazil in 2014. Some cash was spent on new autos for officers and much more opaque initiatives.Two priorities this time for international initiatives are schooling and a “labor excellence hub” in partnership with the United Nations-backed Worldwide Labor Group.MEDIA JIBESBritish media reviews this week famous followers sporting England shirts and cheering outdoors the workforce lodge had been individuals from India who lived and labored in Qatar.It adopted reviews of Qatar’s undertaking to pay bills for about 1,500 followers from the 31 visiting groups to journey to the World Cup, sing within the opening ceremony on Sunday and keep to submit optimistic social media content material in regards to the host nation.It fed a long-standing narrative that Qatar pays individuals to be sports activities followers.“You recognize what that is? That is racism. That is pure racism,” Infantino stated of the criticism in regards to the England cheer squad. “Everybody on the earth had a proper to cheer for whom he desires.”Infantino spoke whereas realizing he will probably be unopposed for re-election as FIFA president in March.“Sadly for a few of you,” he stated to reporters Saturday, “it appears like I will probably be right here for an additional 4 years.”___