Gay girl’s gui to the 2023 Women’s World Cup - Outsports

Contents:

• STORM OVER 'BUNCH OF GAYS' GERMANY'S WORLD CUP TEAM
• GERMANY WORLD CUP SQUAD A 'BUNCH OF GAYS', CLAIMS MICHAEL BALLACK'S AGENT
• FORMER GERMAN SOCCER STAR SAYS HE'S GAY
• EGYPTIANS, ARABS ATTACK GERMAN NATNAL TEAM DUE TO PRO-GAY GTURE
• FORMER GOALKEEPER FOR GERMAN NATNAL TEAM ADVIS GAY PLAYERS TO STAY CLOSETED
• A GAY GIRL’S GUI TO THE 2023 WOMEN’S WORLD CUP
• FORMER GERMAN WORLD CUP PLAYER COM OUT AS GAY

STORM OVER 'BUNCH OF GAYS' GERMANY'S WORLD CUP TEAM

As the World Cup go on a untry where homosexualy is illegal, many global football fans are havg to reckon wh the sports' soccer remas one of the most popular sports around the world, very few players have been able to e out and enjoy a succsful reer afterwards.

GERMANY WORLD CUP SQUAD A 'BUNCH OF GAYS', CLAIMS MICHAEL BALLACK'S AGENT

Gay players face prsure om teammat, ownership, ach, and fans over their are some of the men who have e out, fightg those stereotyp, and pavg the way for LGBTQ+ athlet who e after them. Atralian striker Andy Brennan me out as gay 2019, beg the first out gay Atralian male footballer.

He me out 2011, and won the seventh season of Swedish realy show Let's Dance, beg the first out gay person to w. He me out as gay 2022. His early clubs knew he was gay, and he me out durg his reer, beg the first pro footballer to do so.

FORMER GERMAN SOCCER STAR SAYS HE'S GAY

In 2014, he beme Bra's hight-profile out, gay player, and was the first out, gay male player to play at Wembley. He later me out as gay and has sce spoken out about the difficulti queer players face.

EGYPTIANS, ARABS ATTACK GERMAN NATNAL TEAM DUE TO PRO-GAY GTURE

He me out as gay 2019. The South Ain footballer beme Ai's first out, gay male footballer when he me out 2015.

Rogers me out as gay 2013, beg the first out gay man to pete a top North Amerin pro sports league when he played for the LA Galaxy that same year. Later, he revealed he qu the sport as a rult of homophobia he faced when he me out. German football was engulfed ntroversy today over remarks by the agent of a top footballer, who allegedly referred to a "bunch of gays" the natnal team.

Michael Becker, who has been the agent of German natnal football pta Michael Ballack for more than a , is reported to have ma the ment the latt edn of the news magaze Der an say entled New German Men, Aleksanr Osang reunts an terview he had wh Becker prr to the World Cup which the agent allegedly told him which of the players the team were gay. He later said that a former natnal player was ready to reveal the "bunch of gays" the German team, acrdg to Osang. Asked about the sexualy of one of the newer players, Becker, who is a lawyer by profsn, referred to him as beg "half gay" went on to say that Becker put the new adro, lighter and elegant style of play that has bee a tramark of traer Joachim Löw's players down to their homosexualy, ntrast to the typilly more aggrsive and offensive German style of past years, but suggted they played too litely to assure themselv a place the fal.

FORMER GOALKEEPER FOR GERMAN NATNAL TEAM ADVIS GAY PLAYERS TO STAY CLOSETED

Acrdg to Der Spiegel, when Becker ma his remarks about the "bunch of gays" he expected the ears of fellow journalists prent to "prick up".

"All sports journalists seemed to already know the alleged homosexual nspiraci envelopg Löw's team. "At Bayer Leverken we have absolutely no rentment towards homosexuals, " said a statement. The German Football Feratn, which is the sportg associatn wh the largt membership the world, refed to ment, while Löw said he "would not stoop so low" as to the ments have raised ncerns that homosexualy remas one of the major taboos the footballg world.

A GAY GIRL’S GUI TO THE 2023 WOMEN’S WORLD CUP

The only German footballer to have outed himself as gay is the former regnal league player for Erfurt Marc Urban, and that was only after his profsnal reer was over. 8, 2014BERLIN — Thomas Hzlsperger, a midfielr who ma 52 appearanc for Germany’s natnal team, helped Stuttgart pture the Bunsliga champnship 2007 and played for proment teams Germany, England and Italy, ma perhaps the biggt news of his reer on Wednday by g out as a homosexual.Hzlsperger, 31, said he timed his cisn to the Wter Olympics Rsia, a untry wh much-cricized antigay laws, and dog so beme the first proment soccer player Germany to e out as gay.

FORMER GERMAN WORLD CUP PLAYER COM OUT AS GAY

He told the weekly Die Ze that he had summoned s reporters to discs his homosexualy and the phenomenon general soccer Germany, one of the powerho of the world’s most popular sport.“I thk this is a good moment for ,” said Hzlsperger, who played for Germany at the 2006 World Cup and the 2008 European Champnships. “The Olympic Gam Sochi are g up and I thk we need cril voic agast the mpaigns of several ernments agast homosexuals.”In the long terview, a py of which The New York Tim obtaed before s publitn the weekly on Thursday, Hzlsperger said that he grew up a large fay — the youngt of seven children — ral, nservative, Roman Catholic Bavaria, and that was not until he was a young adult that he realized he was more attracted to men than women.He had a live- female partner for eight years and they talked of marriage before they end their relatnship six years ago, he said.“Homosexualy is ignored football,” Hzlsperger told the newspaper.

“To this day, I don’t know one player personally who has exprsed himself on the topic,” beyond the ual jib about gays at postgame celebratns, he add.“As absurd as might sound 2014, soccer, ‘gay’ is still a swear word.