During a conference in Los Angeles, the president of Fifa welcomed the improvements in working conditions on the construction sites of the Football World Cup.
Visiting Los Angeles to participate in a press conference organized by the Milken Institute, FIFA President Gianni Infantino was asked about the possibility that the profits generated by football will be donated in part to the families of workers who have found death on the construction sites of World Cup stadiums. Sepp Blatter’s successor did not answer the question directly, preferring to highlight the progress made by the host country in recent months in favor of workers from abroad.
“When you offer someone work, even in difficult conditions, you give them dignity and pride”
Gianni Infantino
«When you offer someone work, even in difficult conditions, you give them dignity and pride. It’s not charity. You are not doing charity. You don’t give someone something by saying, “Stay where you are.” I give you something and I feel good“Explained Gianni Infantino, revealing that his family had also migrated from Italy to Switzerland and whose remarks are reported by the press agency AP.
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«It is also a question of pride and to have been able to change the living conditions of these 1.5 million people is something that also makes us proud.“Insisted the leader who did not dispute the figure of 6,500 dead (estimated according to a Guardian survey in 2021) on the World Cup sites when an American journalist alerted him to the subject. “Now 6,000 people could be dead in other construction sites too“, relaunched Infantino before adding that Fifa “is not the police of the world nor responsible for everything that happens in the world.»