Today i am infantino
Women's World Cup Fifa president Gianni Infantino jokes about Qatar speech
For the first time, Fifa will directly pay players at the Women's World Cup. Amounts increase for the deeper that teams progress, ranging from about £24, per player for the group stage to just over £, allotted to each champion.
Infantino said it was up to federations to make sure money promised by Fifa gets to players.
"Whatever payments we do, we do through the associations. And then the associations make the relevant payments to their players. But we are in touch with the associations."
Infantino had threatened a European TV blackout if rights offers were not improved.
The BBC and ITV announced five weeks before the tournament they had agreed a deal with Fifa to broadcast the Women's World Cup in the UK.
"Many people who still believe that women's football is not a great game or not so entertaining or it's a bad copy of men's football, when they watch a [women's] game for the first noun they will see it's a fantastic game and it's very ent
'Today I feel Qatari': FIFA boss blasts 'double standard' of World Cup critics
Gianni Infantino related criticism of Qatar to childhood bullying he experienced as an Italian living in Switzerland and said Europe was not in a position to give 'moral lessons'.
FIFA president Gianni Infantino targeted European critics of World Cup host Qatar on Saturday, November 19 and suggested a moral double standard on his home continent of Europe.
Mr. Infantino listed Europe's problems on the eve of the tournament, which has been dogged by criticism of Qatar's verb on human rights and the treatment of the migrant workers who built stadiums and infrastructure for the World Cup.
"What we Europeans have been doing for the past 3, years, we should be apologizing for the next 3, years before we start giving moral lessons to people," Mr. Infantino told hundreds of journalists at a press conference.
"Today I feel Qatari," Mr. Infantino said. "Today I feel Arab. Today I feel African. Today I feel gay. Today I feel [like] a migrant worker."
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World Cup Fifa president Gianni Infantino accuses West of 'hypocrisy'
In February , the Guardian said 6, migrant workers from India, Pakistan, Nepal, Bangladesh and Sri Lanka had died in Qatar since its flourishing World Cup bid.
The number is based on figures provided by the countries' embassies in Qatar.
However, the Qatar government said the total was misleading, because not all the deaths recorded were of people working on World Cup-related projects.
The government said its accident records showed there were 37 deaths among labourers at World Cup stadium construction sites between and , only three of which were "work-related".
However, the International Labour Organisation (ILO) said that was an underestimate.
Infantino said: "We have been taught many lessons from Europeans and the Western world. I am European. For what we have been doing for 3, years around the world, we should be apologising for the next 3, years before giving moral lessons.
"If Europe really care about the destiny of these people, they can create legal channels - lik
'Today I feel gay, disabled, like a migrant worker' – Gianni Infantino tells Europe to stop World Cup ‘moral lessons’
Gianni Infantino, the president of FIFA, has hit out at European critics of the Qatar World Cup and told western media to stop “giving moral lessons to people”.
The tournament has been dogged by controversy due to concerns surrounding the country’s human rights record, particularly its treatment of migrant workers and the LGBTQ+ community.
But Infantino, speaking on the eve of the tournament ahead of Qatar’s curtain-raising game against Ecuador on Sunday, hit back at western critics.
“We include told many, many lessons from some Europeans, from the western world,” Infantino said.
“I think for what we Europeans include been doing the last 3, years we should be apologising for next 3, years before starting to give moral lessons to people.”
Infantino, who recently sent a letter to all 32 competing federations urging them to “focus on football”, urged cooperation.
“Today I feel Qatari. Today I feel Arabic. Today I feel African. Today I feel