Gianni Infantino recently chose a questionable argument in relation to reasons for fleeing in the campaign for the two-year World Cup. A short time later he responded to the criticism.
Fifa President Gianni Infantino is after his abstruse Africa statement in defense of his controversial World Cup plans (Read more about this here) rowed back. “Certain comments” seemed to be “misinterpreted” and “taken out of context,” said a statement released by the World Football Association after the Swiss’s speech to the Council of Europe in Strasbourg on Wednesday.
“I want to make it clear that the broader message I gave in my speech was that everyone in a decision-making position has a responsibility to help improve the situation of people around the world,” Infantino said in the statement. It was “a general comment” that was not directly related to the plans to shorten the World Cup rhythm to two years.
Infantino last defended World Cup host country Qatar
“We have to involve the whole world. We can’t tell the rest of the world: Give us your money and your players – and watch on TV,” Infantino said on Wednesday after he had come up with his World Cup idea . He continued: “We must give hope to Africans so that they no longer have to come across the Mediterranean to perhaps find a better life or, more likely, death at sea.”
In addition, Infantino again had before the Council of Europe the World Cup hosts Qatar (Read more about this here) and dismissed reports of thousands of deaths on the construction sites.