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Gianni Infantino assured that organizing this major football competition every two years, instead of four at present, would prevent refugees from fleeing to Europe. Lunar.
“The leaders of FIFA dare everything, that’s even how we recognize them”, commented on Wednesday a colleague from a Swiss media, barely disguising Michel Audiard’s famous line. Difficult to prove him wrong: earlier in the day, the boss of Fifa, Gianni Infantino, was invited to defend his decried project of a World Cup every two years with the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe (PACE ) in Strasbourg.
An insipid fifteen-minute plea, during which the Italian-Swiss leader – recently domiciled in Qatar – argues that a two-year World Cup would give “hope to Africans so that they do not need to cross the Mediterranean to find perhaps a better life, but more likely death in the sea”.
No matter how hard we look for the connection, we have a hard time understanding how increasing the frequency of a sports competition could convince people fleeing conflict to stay quietly at home watching football matches at home. television. To listen to him hold forth on this delirious ambition, one would be almost tempted to believe that a World Cup could eradicate hunger in the world and delay climate change.
Campaign Parody
In Strasbourg, Gianni Infantino pours into the abject, by instrumentalizing a cause – that of migrants – which has absolutely nothing to do with that of the football planet…