One of the best full-backs in the world and a star of his club, Bayern Munich has said that it is very difficult for a football player to show openly that he is a gay.

But on the same hand the 27 year old married man also said that in case he ever comes to learn that anyone of his team-mates was a gay, he will be totally fine with it. It is now expected that his comments are going to fuel a debate about homophobia existing in the game and can also lead to him being sanctioned by the German Football Federation (DFB).

It is already known to the world that DFB is trying to combat many of the national associations across the world about combating prejudice in the game and how keenly it wants to remove them successfully.

Only recently, the president of DFB, Theo Zwanziger had called upon all the gay footballers to come out in the open saying that the association is definitely going to help them out. During one of his statements in March he had said that he is going to be brave and welcome all such new changes.