Gianni Infantino is not crying out loud. The face of the criticized chairman has disappeared from the World Cup stadiums.
The crowd began to boo when the president of the International Football Association Gianni Infantino was shown in the stadium’s media cube during the World Cup match between England and Wales.
Now in Qatar, a solution to the rude reaction has been found. Norwegian Broadcasting Corporation According to NRK After the episode, Infantino’s picture has been shown at least twice on live TV, but not in the stadium.
– This fits well with Qatar’s and Fifa’s complete control both inside and outside the stadium, media researcher Steffen Krüger analyze.
Infantino has participated in every match of the ongoing tournament so far. Even if there were two games going on at the same time, the chairman has visited both.
Infantino’s face has often been shown on television, but the president has not always been photographed in stadiums.
According to NRK, this happened at least on Monday in the match between Brazil and South Korea and on Tuesday when Spain faced Morocco.
Fifa has not commented on the specific detail. So it is not known who decided not to show Infantino in the stadium and why.
“Censorship”
Gianni Infantino was booed. PDO
Assistant professor familiar with sports productions by Erik Fagereng according to it is not unusual for a different picture to be shown in the stadium and in the TV broadcast. Usually, similar cases are about TV rights.
In the World Cup, the explanation does not apply, because Fifa itself owns the TV rights.
– This is pure censorship. Infantino is the main supplier of its product.
Infantino caused a stir on the eve of the World Cup after delivering a monologue lasting nearly an hour. He characterized Western countries as guilty of double standards when criticizing Qatar.
You can watch the speech in the video at the top of this article.
– Based on what we Europeans have done for the last 3,000 years, we should apologize for the next 3,000 years before we give moral sermons. This is hypocritical, the chairman drummed.
Infantino has been the president of Fifa since 2016. It is known that Pesti will continue even after the World Cup, as he is the only candidate for the next election.