Gianni Infantino has been heavily criticised for his closing speech at the Women's World Cup.
Infantino has been heavily criticised for his closing speech at what has been a highly successful and record-breakingSpeaking in Sydney, Infantino told women they must ‘push the door’ to equality rather than accept ultimate responsibility, himself, for growing the game., you will find open doors. Just push the doors. This World Cup generated over $570m in revenues, and so we broke even.
‘Equal pay in the World Cup? We are going in that direction already. But that would not solve anything. It might be a symbol but it would not solve anything, because it’s one month every four years and it’s a few players out of the thousands and thousands of players.’ Gianni Infantino was handing out medals at the third place play-off between Sweden and Australia just 24 hours after his bizarre closing speech
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