FIFA boss Gianni Infantino has left soccer followers around the globe scratching their heads after his newest weird remarks.
As Brazil paid its last respects for celebrity Pele, one of many biggest gamers to ever play the sport, Infantino supplied up a baffling request.
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Infantino was within the metropolis of Santos, Brazil, to pay his last respects to the participant broadly thought of the best of all time, who died on the age of 82 after dropping his battle with most cancers.
He attended the wake with the heads of the South American and Brazilian soccer confederations and mentioned the game’s governing physique would ask all member nations to call a stadium in Pele’s honour.
“We’re going to ask every country in the world to name one of their football stadiums with the name of Pele,” Infantino instructed journalists on the Vila Belmiro, the stadium the place the participant referred to as “The King” first exploded onto the world stage together with his exploits for his longtime membership, Santos FC.
Infantino was among the many first to pay homage earlier than Pele’s open casket, which was displayed in the midst of the sphere at Vila Belmiro stadium.
“We’re here with great sadness,” Infantino mentioned. “Pele is eternal. He’s a global icon of football.”
FIFA had already flown the flags of the world at half-mast Friday outdoors its headquarters in Zurich in honour of Pele, whom the organisation has named as the best participant of the twentieth century.
The build-up to the event was dominated by issues over Qatar’s therapy of migrant staff, ladies and the LGBTQ group.
Infantino expressed his help for these communities.
“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,” he mentioned.
“I’m not Qatari, African, gay, disabled and I’m not really a migrant worker but I know what it means to be discriminated and bullied, as a foreign in a foreign country, as a child at school I was bullied because I had red hair and freckles. I was bullied for that.
“There are 1 billion disabled people in the world … and nobody cares.”
Inevitably, Infantino was brutally mocked for his weird feedback.
– with AFP
