German World Cup team full of gays

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

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. 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".

8 MALE FOOTBALL PLAYERS WHO DARED TO COME OUT AS GAY

"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. 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 WORLD CUP TEAM FULL OF GAYS

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. 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. 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.

They rema the only known homosexual male footballers or om Germany, and none me out publicly durg their playg reers.

GERMAN SOCCER REFEREE SAYS THERE’S A SHOCKG NUMBER OF GAY MEN BUNSLIGA

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. 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.

BUNSLIGA STARS OFFER SUPPORT TO GAY FOOTBALLERS

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 .

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

One of the players had a wife who he claimed did not know about his sexualy, and the other told teammat a close female iend was his partner when, tth, he was gay.

Natnal team goalkeeper Tim Wie said 2010 that openly gay players would be stroyed by “mercils fans, ” bee football is a “macho sport.

FORMER GERMAN WORLD CUP PLAYER COM OUT AS GAY

Their ments led Mar Gomez to bee one of the first German players to enurage his homosexual teammat to be open about their inti, but he remaed the mory. He said those who managed to speak out would feel liberated bee “beg gay should no longer be a taboo topic. In his terview wh Die Ze, he said homosexualy was a taboo the male football drsg room, and that some of the ments ma about the subject, cludg om teammat, ma harr.

EX-GERMANY TERNATNAL THOMAS HZLSPERGER: IT WOULD BE GREAT IF A FOOTBALLER ME OUT AS GAY DURG THE QATAR 2022 WORLD CUP

“I'm g out about my homosexualy bee I want to move the discsn about homosexualy among profsnal sportspeople forwards, ” he said. While he has moved om his playg reer to the boardroom, German football has failed to move forwards regardg homosexualy. His efforts were summed up a statement by Bayern Munich supporters group Coleg: “Five years ago, Thomas Hzlsperger me out as gay, after his reer was done.

In December, a Red Star Leipzig player reported a rival om Nnhof for g homophobic language toward him, a match the Lansklasse Nord, the seventh tier. However, for as long as players, staff and supporters ntue to monstrate homophobic behavur om the top to grassroots level, homosexual players will ntue to stggle to follow Urban and Hzlsperger’s leads. But tak guts to e out and reveal one’s genr as gay, which is ually an act of urage a world that is not ndned to accept every genr.

This listicle will mentn eight male football players who dared to e out as gay. Seventeen male footballers have urageoly revealed their sexualy as gay public so far. Even though has already been three s sce Jt Fashanu first publicly me out as gay, there are only a few of them revealg .

JAGS' MAXEN IS FIRST MALE AMERIN PRO SPORTS ACH TO E OUT AS GAY

The primary reason behd many gay footballers not revealg their sexualy publicly is fear of homophobia on and off the pch. So, many profsnal leagu, teams, and players are raisg their voic to fight back agast homophobia so that gay footballers don’t face backlash while g out.

Now, whout any further ado, let’s list the football players who dared to e out as gay publicly.