Top German Football Agent Claims There are 'a Bunch of Gays' on the World Cup Team

I recent wrote a blog post about a soap opera in Argentina that involves closeted soccer stars that has prompted some to speculate on how many actual world cup players might be living such lives (I have watched some You Tube clips from the show and it's actually rather good and seems to accurately depict the mental anguish of the closeted and married soccer star). Now, as if intentionally throwing gas on that fire, a top German football agent claims that there are "a bunch of gays' on the World Cup Team shown in the photo above and detailed here. Obviously, we all know that gay soccer players exist - just like we exist in every other profession and field of endeavor. The Guardian has coverage on this new bomb shell. Here are some highlights:
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German football was engulfed in controversy today over remarks by the agent of a top footballer, who allegedly referred to a "bunch of gays" in the national team.
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Michael Becker, who has been the agent of German national football captain Michael Ballack for more than a decade, is reported to have made the comment in the latest edition of the news magazine Der Spiegel.
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In an essay entitled New German Men, Aleksander Osang recounts an interview he had with Becker prior to the World Cup in which the agent allegedly told him which of the players in the team were gay. He later said that a former national player was ready to reveal the "bunch of gays" in the German team, according to Osang. Asked about the sexuality of one of the newer players, Becker, who is a lawyer by profession, referred to him as being "half gay".

Osang went on to say that Becker put the new adroit, lighter and elegant style of play that has become a trademark of trainer Joachim Löw's players down to their homosexuality, . . .
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According to Der Spiegel, when Becker made his remarks about the "bunch of gays" he expected the ears of fellow journalists present to "prick up". "But they only nodded placidly," said Osang. "All sports journalists seemed to already know the alleged homosexual conspiracies enveloping Löw's team. The rumours accompanied our team to South Africa and evidently belong to the team."
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But the comments have raised concerns that homosexuality remains one of the major taboos in the footballing world. The only German footballer to have outed himself as gay is the former regional league player for Erfurt Marcus Urban, and that was only after his professional career was over. Experts estimate that around 10 per cent of all Bundesliga professionals are gay.