Before the start of the 2022 World Cup in Qatar, Gianni Infantino said he felt “Qatari, gay, disabled or like a migrant worker”. Shortly after the opening match, The Guardian journalists conducted a small comparison of the salary of the head of FIFA with the salary of the workers who participated in the construction of the arenas of the final tournament.

Gianni Infantino, FIFA president, salary £2.6 million per year

According to the quoted source, Gianni Infantino has a salary of around 2.6 million pounds per year, which does not even come close to classifying him as a migrant worker.

The Guardian also reported that some security staff during the 2022 FIFA World Cup in Qatar will be paid £0.30 an hour.

As for workers’ rights, it should be said that foreign workers make up 85 to 88% of the emirate’s total population of 2.6 million.

From a Human Rights Watch report in 2012, the world could learn that these people, that is, including those who worked on the construction of stadiums, were paid 8 to 11 dollars a day for 9 to 11 hours of work, in extreme conditions.

But this was nothing more than an addition to the real abuses: very often, foreign workers received less money than was written in their contracts, due to illegal and arbitrary deductions by employers for the costs of visas, bedding, food, medical care, etc. although the law did not allow such things.

Later, although local law prohibited more than four workers in a room, HRW inspectors found between eight and 18 workers in the room.

The FIFA World Cup takes place from November 20 to December 18 in Qatar.

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