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Moggi: 'There Are No Gays In Football'
Updated:16:00, Wednesday April 23, 2008
The former managing director of a top Italian football club has launched a tirade against homosexuals - insisting gays cannot be footballers.
Luciano Moggi, who was at the helm of Juventus, delivered his rant on the programme KlausCondico.
The 70-year-old - who has been embroiled in an alleged corruption scandal - said: "There are no gays in football.
"I don't know if players are against having them in their team but I definitely am.
"In the teams where I worked there were never any. I never wanted to have a homosexual player and I still wouldn't sign one.
"I'm old school but I know the ambience of football and a gay wouldn't be able to survive within it.
"A homosexual cannot do the job of a footballer. The football world is not designed for them, it's a special atmosphere, one in which you stand naked under the showers."
Luciano Moggi
There are no openly gay footballers in any of the major European leagues.
The only reasonably well known player to have come out while playing was Justin Fashanu, in England in the 1980s.
Rumours are abound about many players in internet chat rooms but still the subject remains something of a taboo in football.
Former Argentina coach Daniel Passarella was quoted by Argentine newspapers before the 1998 World Cup as saying that he did not want gays or long haired players on his team.
Last year, the country hosted the 'gay World Cup'.