To come out or not to come out of the closet: that is the question. This Monday, the column Zapping, by journalist Fabíola Reipert, published in the newspaper Agora and Folha Online, announced that a football player, from a São Paulo team, is willing to come out of the closet in an exclusive interview with Globo's Fantástico program.
The news had a lot of repercussions, especially within the sporting world. The note said that “the club's directors and the player's agent are completely against it. They think this would be the end of the boy's career. They even hired legal advice.”
So, I wonder, and I pose the question to you, dear readers. Why so much care? Why can't a gay man play football? Why would it be the end of his career? Would this hinder his performance on the field?
This Tuesday the column took up the topic again, saying that the people at Fantástico will not give up so easily on getting the interview, despite the board being against it.
Following the example of what happens abroad, when celebrities come out of the closet much more easily and even without being gay appear on the covers of gay magazines, it would be interesting to break down yet another taboo and place homosexuality as a topic in the football discussion circles of almost all television channels.
Of course, as this is a blog, we may have a moment of freaking out. If I were interviewing this player, I would ask if he reads the The Cape and if you have a profile on Available. And you, what would you like to know about a gay football player?
