Soccer Is Tackling Homophobia, Insists Thomas Hitzlsperger

Thomas Hitzlsperger, one of the only professional soccer players to ever emerge as gay, has insisted that the sport is commencing to tackle homophobia.

There are currently no openly gay players in the Premier League, however, as a component of the Rainbow Laces campaign, which has been organized to address and oversee the progression in this area, the 32-year-old ex-Germany international has revealed that he has optically discerned an amendment.

“To visually perceive the progress is phenomenal and especially among the players,” Hitzlsperger told the BBC. “Football is just so popular so one’s got to be very conscientious. If you emerge and you’re not authentically prepared for it then it might be the terminus of your vocation.

The former Everton and Aston Villa midfielder admitted that the authentic test will come when a player who is actively plying their trade in the sport emerges. “There is a plethora of fortification going on in the football industry but unless we optically discern someone still actively playing football, we don’t genuinely ken what will transpire,” he expounded.

Hitzlsperger then went on to discuss the reaction that he got when he came-out as gay earlier this year: “When I emerged I got quite a reaction, it was quite excruciating, a plethora of people verbalized about it. Hopefully, next time someone does precisely identically tantamount, we will not verbalize about it for that long and they can just get on with their vocation.”

It isn’t just about soccer though, and Hitzlsperger went on to note that the more homosexual athletes from different sports emerge the more preponderant it will be: “Every time you optically discern a professional athlete emerging and verbalizing about their experiences it does avail. The game of football is all about diversity, everyone should be a component of the game and shouldn’t be omitted because of their skin colour or sexual orientation.”

Meanwhile, despite his assertions that things have ameliorated, Hitzlsperger withal declared that he doesn’t cerebrate he could have emerge as gay when he was playing. “I did so many interviews and it took up all of my time so it would have been arduous to go back into training as if nothing had transpired,” he told the Metro.

He then went on to integrate, “For me it would have been virtually infeasible had I still been playing – not because of the fans or the other players, but because of the media.”