Giroud: "It is impossible to reveal your homosexuality in the football"

To his 32 years, Olivier Giroud has lived a lot of situations in the world of the football. At present it plays in Chelsea, but the French forward had happened previously by clubs like the Montpellier or the Arsenal. In a personal interview in the media 'Him Figaro', showed his support to the homosexuality in the sport.

The ariete of Chelsea, during the interview, regretted that it was so complicated that the sportsmen confess his homosexuality by the wave of reactions that can cause. "I understand the pain and the difficulty of the gays when they go out of the cupboard, is impossible to say that you are gay in the world of the sport", recognised the French player.

In concrete, remembered the case of the ex player Thomas Hitzlsperger, that had played in the Aston Villa among others clubs. The German declared homosexual in 2014, once already had withdrawn of the football in active, confessing that there was state tempted to do it before but that did not make public it sigueindo the councils of his surroundings.

Giroud Remembered with emotiveness this event with the ex footballer germano of protagonist: "it Was very moving. After his case was when I said me that it was impossible that somebody said that it is homosexual in the football. In a changing room, there is a lot of testosterone, all together, collective showers ... It is difficult but is like this".

Giroud, a committed player

The player of Chelsea admitted the complicated that it is to carry this situation for the players and showed tolerante: "I Understand the pain and the difficulty of the boys that go out of the cupboard. I am very tolerante with this. When it was in Montpellier participated in this fight posing for the magazine Têtu and in the Arsenal, when they asked me that it used the 'Rainbow Laces' in support of the community gay, did it. There is a lot of work that do in the world of the football in this sense".

Giroud Showed his enormous commitment with the homosexual cause no only in the interview with 'Him Figaro', but also along his career. The player was one of the big cracks of Tie it 1 French, winning the competition in the rows of the Montpellier. It was then when more it took advantage of his repercussion to support to the cause.