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Contents:
- STORM OVER 'BUNCH OF GAYS' GERMANY'S WORLD CUP TEAM
- 8 MALE FOOTBALL PLAYERS WHO DARED TO COME OUT AS GAY
- GERMAN WORLD CUP TEAM FULL OF GAYS
- GERMAN SOCCER REFEREE SAYS THERE’S A SHOCKG NUMBER OF GAY MEN BUNSLIGA
- BUNSLIGA STARS OFFER SUPPORT TO GAY FOOTBALLERS
- EGYPTIANS, ARABS ATTACK GERMAN NATNAL TEAM DUE TO PRO-GAY GTURE
- FORMER GERMAN WORLD CUP PLAYER COM OUT AS GAY
- EX-GERMANY TERNATNAL THOMAS HZLSPERGER: IT WOULD BE GREAT IF A FOOTBALLER ME OUT AS GAY DURG THE QATAR 2022 WORLD CUP
- JAGS' MAXEN IS FIRST MALE AMERIN PRO SPORTS ACH TO E OUT AS GAY
STORM OVER 'BUNCH OF GAYS' GERMANY'S WORLD CUP TEAM
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The rabow armbands had been viewed as a symbolic prott agast laws Qatar, where homosexualy is illegal. 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.
8 MALE FOOTBALL PLAYERS WHO DARED TO COME OUT AS GAY
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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. 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.
GERMAN WORLD CUP TEAM FULL OF GAYS
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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. The claim: Qatar 'refed to receive' the German soccer team's plane due to LGBTQ symbolSce the 2022 World Cup began last month, soccer fans have been cricizg Qatar, the host of this year's tournament, for s treatment of the LGBTQ muny, which clus laws forbiddg gay sex.
GERMAN SOCCER REFEREE SAYS THERE’S A SHOCKG NUMBER OF GAY MEN BUNSLIGA
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The flight was not diverted or nied by Qatar addn, while the plane is rated wh words and imag promotg diversy, do not bear a specific gay symbol on the outsi of the aircraft.
Fans of Dortmund prott agast homophobia durg the Bunsliga match between Bossia Dortmund and Etracht Frankfurt at Signal Iduna Park on April 15, 2017 Dortmund, Germany.
BUNSLIGA STARS OFFER SUPPORT TO GAY FOOTBALLERS
When former German ternatnal and current head of sport at VfB Stuttgart Thomas Hzlsperger me out as gay January 2014, he said he believed was a good time to do so.
German football leagu have an unhealthy level of trans- and homophobia, but a few teams are workg to make match LGBTQ iendly.
EGYPTIANS, ARABS ATTACK GERMAN NATNAL TEAM DUE TO PRO-GAY GTURE
Hez Bonn, who played for Hamburger SV the Bunsliga, Germany’s top divisn, between 1970 and 1973, was the first German male footballer known to be gay. In 1997, Marc Urban told his iends, fay and clost teammat at FC Rot-Weiß Erfurt about his homosexualy, but he did not go public for another , after he had retired.
FORMER GERMAN WORLD CUP PLAYER COM OUT AS GAY
They rema the only known homosexual male footballers or om Germany, and none me out publicly durg their playg reers.
Homophobia remas a ser problem German football: large cross sectns of players, staff, erng bodi and supporters have created an unhealthy environment to be an openly-homosexual male footballer. A European Unn-wi study by German Sport Universy Cologne found that 90% of the LGBT muny believe sport is affected by homophobia and transphobia. Jt Fashanu was the first openly gay profsnal football player and suffered homophobic abe.
EX-GERMANY TERNATNAL THOMAS HZLSPERGER: IT WOULD BE GREAT IF A FOOTBALLER ME OUT AS GAY DURG THE QATAR 2022 WORLD CUP
The effect homophobia n have is highlighted by the se of English football player Jt Fashanu, who suffered homophobic abe after beg the first openly gay profsnal footballer October 1990. He was targeted wh both homophobic and racist abe, and he was the victim of what he ntted was a false allegatn of sexual asslt by a 17-year-old March 1998.
JAGS' MAXEN IS FIRST MALE AMERIN PRO SPORTS ACH TO E OUT AS GAY
Fans ntue to sg offensive chants and unveil homophobic banners Germany, which left players and managers argug agast the ia of g out as gay before Hzlsperger’s announcement bee, former Werr Bremen manager Rudi Asser’s words, “those who out themselv always end up bted by .