Oliver Kahn c abe om fans as potential problem for out gay players
Contents:
- GERMAN GOALIE ENURAG GAY FOOTBALLERS TO 'E OUT'
- FORMER GOALKEEPER FOR GERMAN NATNAL TEAM ADVIS GAY PLAYERS TO STAY CLOSETED
GERMAN GOALIE ENURAG GAY FOOTBALLERS TO 'E OUT'
When German soccer player Mar Gomez lled on gay soccer players to e out, surely he wasn't limg his requt only to male footballers. So I'm * germany goalkeeper is gay *
Many people are speculatg whether German footballer Manuel Ner is a closeted homos*xual guy light of his recent statement enuragg g@y footballers to e out. When German soccer player Mar Gomez lled on gay soccer players to e out, surely he wasn’t limg his requt only to male footballers. Manuel Ner, the 24-year-old Schalke 04 star, told Germany's Bunte magaze Wednday that gay footballers should go public about their sexualy and 'take a load off their mds'.
AFP - German ternatnal goalkeeper Manuel Ner exprsed his sire on Wednday for homosexual footballers to go public over their sexualy, addg would take a load off their 24-year-old Schalke 04 star told Bunte magaze that supporters didn't re about a player's sexualy, only how he performed on the pch. "Y, those who are homosexual should say so.
"Ner's plea is rare football where homosexualy is regard as a taboo several ocsns Bunsliga players have spoken the prs anonymoly about the difficulti they faced hidg the fact that they are late English player Jt Fashanu is the hight-profile footballer to have admted he was talented striker paid for as Nottgham Fort manager Brian Clough - who had nvced the board to pay 1 ln pounds for him 1981 - did not take kdly to his revelatns and nstantly ma fun of him, even barrg him om trag wh the squad. A former goalkeeper for the German natnal team advis gay players to stay the closet, even as he nclus that homosexualy is not a “big al” society anymore, Pk News reports.
FORMER GOALKEEPER FOR GERMAN NATNAL TEAM ADVIS GAY PLAYERS TO STAY CLOSETED
Manuel Ner, the 24-year-old Schalke 04 star, told Germany's Bunte magaze Wednday that gay footballers should go public about their sexualy and 'take a load off their mds'. * germany goalkeeper is gay *
“It may sound sad, but I wouldn’t advise [a gay player] to e out, ” Oliver Kahn, 44, says. He says abe om fans of opposg teams is a potential problem for gay players.
While Kahn’s pot of view dovetails wh that of Germany’s current team pta, Philipp Lahm, both men’s perspectiv ntrast wh that of the former head of the German Football Associatn, Theo Zwanziger, who last year lled on gay players to e out of the closet. German Chancellor Angela Merkel also joed the bate late last year when she said gay footballers should have no fear clarg their sexualy, reported. In November 2010, German striker Mar Gomez also said beg gay shouldn’t be a “taboo topic, ” suggtg that openly gay footballers “would play as if they had been liberated.