[article] The secret of Germanys new style success revealed

mike65

Tis cos they are gayer than they used to be. Apparently.

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.

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.

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, in contrast to the typically more aggressive and offensive German style of past years, but suggested they played too delicately to assure themselves a place in the final.

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."

Full article here

flahavaj

Jaysus if he's putting Germany's elegant style down to a player or two being gay then the entire Spanish team must be going hats off the whole time.:pac:

GreeBo

The matching cardigans gave it away to me

But in any case, Im left with the overwhelming feeling of "so what"?

tolosenc

flahavaj wrote: »

Jaysus if he's putting Germany's elegant style down to a player or two being gay then the entire Spanish team must be going hats off the whole time.:pac:

Well, there's Piqué...

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Trap and the boys down to the George in a couple of weeks to pick our starting 11 for the Argies?

GLaDOS

He's just pissed off cos the Germans kicked ass without Ballack

Mac Masters

That article is ridiculous.

Experts estimate that around 10 per cent of all Bundesliga professionals are gay.

This is insane, what criteria could they possibly have used to calculate this and the craziest thing of all is that they actually hired "experts" to calculatle this crap! Like really, come on! Do these people have nothing better to be doing?

stovelid

Here's me thinking of was because a generation of decent young players had come through the ranks.

folan

"All sports journalists seemed to already know the alleged homosexual conspiracies enveloping Löw's team. "

Possibly the finest sentence Ive read today. Along with the half-gay bit!

Does this mean the spanish are gay too?

tolosenc

Mac Masters wrote: »

This is insane, what criteria could they possibly have used to calculate this and the craziest thing of all is that they actually hired "experts" to calculatle this crap! Like really, come on! Do these people have nothing better to be doing?

We'll, it's reckoned that 1 in 10 people is gay, so why would professional footballers be any different?

Boskowski

I wonder what the relevance of this is...at all. The whole thing is ridiculous because...so what...and I can tell you in the German sports pages its gets the attention it deserves...none.

Oat23

That's hilarious.

Le King

English paper writing an article on the German team. Bitter anyone?