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1. 00:00 SOUNDBITE (English) Gianni Infantino, President of FIFA:
"Today I have very strong feelings. I can tell you that. 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."
2. 01:00 SOUNDBITE (English) Gianni Infantino, President of FIFA:
"I'm European. Actually I am European, not just I feel European. I think for what we Europeans have been doing in the last 3000 years around the world, we should be apologizing for the next 3000 years before starting to give moral lessons to people."
3. 01:29 Wide of press conference
4. 01:30 SOUNDBITE (English) Gianni Infantino, President of FIFA:
"Well, Qatar is actually offering them this opportunity. Hundreds of thousands of workers from developing countries come here. They earn ten times more than what they earn in their home country. And they help their families to survive. And they do it in a legal way. We in Europe, we close our borders and we don't allow practically any worker from these countries who have obviously very low income to work legally in our countries, because we all know there are many illegal workers in our European countries."
5. 02:26 Mid of press conference
6. 02:30 SOUNDBITE (English) Gianni Infantino, President of FIFA:
"There will be I don't know how many fan zones, 8, 10, big fan zones over 200 places where you can buy alcohol in Qatar anyway, over ten fan zones. And over 100,000 people can simultaneously drink alcohol. 100,000 people at any particular moment. I think, personally, if for 3 hours a day you cannot drink a beer you will survive, especially because actually the same rules apply in France or in Spain or in Portugal or in Scotland where no beer is allowed in stadiums. Now it seems to become a big thing because it's a Muslim country or I don't know why, I don't know why."
SOURCE: AP
DURATION: 03:17
STORYLINE: FIFA boss Gianni Infantino said he feels gay. That he feels like a woman. That he feels like a migrant worker.
He lectured Europeans for criticizing Qatar's human rights record and defended the host country's last-minute decision 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, and then spent about 45 minutes answering questions from media about the Qatari government's actions and a wide-range of other topics.
"Today I feel Qatari," Infantino said Saturday at the start of his first news conference of the World Cup.
"Today I feel Arab. Today I feel African. Today I feel gay. Today I feel disabled. Today I feel a migrant worker."
Qatar has faced a litany of criticism since 2010, when it was chosen by FIFA to host the biggest soccer tournament in the world.
Migrant laborers who built Qatar's World Cup stadiums often worked long hours under harsh conditions and were subjected to discrimination, wage theft and other abuses as their employers evaded accountability, London-based rights group Equidem said in a 75-page report released this month.
Infantino defended the country's immigration policy, and praised the government for bringing in migrants to work.
"If Europe would really care about the destiny of these people, these young people, then Europe could also do as Qatar did.
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