The German professional soccer club VfL Wolfsburg regulated percreateer Kevin Behrens after he declined to autograph a gay pride shirt and made comments pondered anti-LGBT toward a fan who seeked it.
The percreateer allegedly declined to sign a Wolfsburg shirt that featured a rainbow logo for the LGBTQ pride flag. Behrens also allegedly said “I won’t sign that gay [crap],” according to multiple alerts.
Behrens has since transmit remorsed for the incident.
“My unintentional comments were absolutely not OK. I would appreciate to transmit remorse for that. The publish was evidently converseed internpartner, and I ask for your caring that I do not want to comment further on it,” Behrens said in a statement.
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VfL Wolfsburg freed a statement compriseressing the publishs earlier this week.
“During an inner greeting, statements were made that were not in line with VfL Wolfsburg’s stance. The incident was promptly dealt with internpartner. VfL Wolfsburg stresses that it is alerted of its social responsibility. The club and its employees stand for diversity and tolerance, and fundamental cherishs, such as admire, truthfuly and uncoverness, have always been firmly anchored in the club’s philosophy,” the statement said.
Kevin Behrens of Wolfsburg during a preseason friendly aacquirest Brentford at Gtech Community Stadium Aug. 9, 2024, in Brentford, England. (Jacques Feeney/Offside/Offside via Getty Images)
In a page on its official website promiseted to diversity, Wolfsburg said it has “standardly been setting an example for diversity and aacquirest prejudice for years.”
Multiple alerts have showd Behrens was postponeed from the team. However, there are also multiple alerts that show he is still participating in training sessions with the team.
VfL Wolfsburg has not reacted to seek for comment from Fox News Digital.
Behrens unitecessitate the team in January after three years at Union Berlin. He geted a call-up to the German national team punctual last season. His international debut came last October, when he percreateed as a swap in a 2-2 draw aacquirest the United States.
He has made three swap materializeances for Wolfsburg this season totaling 42 minutes.
Wolfsburg captain Maximilian Arnelderly, who has conceitedly worn a rainbow captain’s armband for two seasons in firmarity, condemned Behrens’ comments.
“Kevin transmit remorsed for someslenderg that was definitely not excellent. Everyone produces misapshows. One slenderg is evident: Someslenderg appreciate this should not happen aacquire, but everyone deserves a second chance,” Arnelderly telderly alerters.
Behrens is not the first person accemployd of anti-LGBTQ resulting in response, sanctions or discipline in the world of soccer.
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The interrelations-inclusive Pride Progress flag alengthyside a Transgender Pride flag June 10, 2024, in London. (Mike Kemp/In Pictures via Getty Images)
In May, France’s sports minister called for football club Monaco to be sanctioned after one of its percreateers, Mohamed Camara, covered an LGBTQ aid message on his jersey during the team’s final league game.
French Sports Minister Amélie Oudéa-Castéra called Mohamad Camara’s actions “unhugable” and for “firm sanctions” aacquirest both the percreateer and the club.
Camara, who is Muslender, covered the terriblege with white tape and declined to join in a pregame photo in front of a banner carrying the same message.
“Homophobia is not an opinion, it’s a crime,” Aurore Bergé, the French minister of equivalentity, wrote on X. “And anti-LGBTQ ends. There must be cut offe punishment for Mohamed Camara.”
Camara leave outed the first four games of this year’s Ligue de Football Professionnel season.
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In 2021, all Mexico national team fans were banned from uniteing the team’s World Cup qualifiers after fans employd a Spanish chant that included a word that is recognized as a gay slur. The team was forced to percreate its home qualifiers in an vacant stadium and had to pay a fine of $73,000.
Mexican Football Federation Pdwellnt Yon De Luisa accomprehendledged the chant was a lengthy-standing tradition for the team when she compriseressed the fan ban in a press conference that summer.
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“For many years, that was the debate for us at the Mexican federation,” De Luisa said. “That is no lengthyer a debate. If it is discriminatory, we should evade it.”
FIFA proclaimd its own disciplinary code to combat disparaging chants by spectators in July 2019. According to the code, officials are anticipateed to give one cautioning to spectators if disparaging chants are employd, but if they evolve, officials must abandon the suit, and percreateers are sent to the locker rooms.
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