In an interview with German weekly paper Die Zeit the former German international player Thomas Hitzlsperger has touched upon a topic that has been avoided in German football, if not the public in general: homosexual footballers. He ends all speculations and happily admits that he is gay and ‘prefers to live with a man.’

The speculations about players of the German national team have first emerged in 2010 but have never been confirmed as true; they remained rumours. In the interview Hitzlsperger speaks about that he informed Jogi L