CULTURE: German soccer star Mario Gomez says "Come Out and be liberated”!

It’s nice to hear a professional athlete from ANY sport talking this way: Mario Gomez, a 25-year-old German soccer star who is a striker for Bayern Munich, is urging has urged gay players to come out and called for a radical rethinking about homosexuality in the sport.

UK’s The Guardian quotes Gomez as telling a German magazine that gay players would have an improved performance if they were out.

“They would play as if they had been liberated. Being gay should no longer be a taboo topic.”

“We’ve got a gay vice-chancellor [Guido Westerwelle]; the Berlin mayor [Klaus Wowereit] is gay,” he added. “So professional footballers should own up to their preference.”

I don’t know if Gomez is gay or straight but whatever he is, he’s playing some excellent ball right now.

He has scored nine goals in his last six games, including hat-tricks against Hannover in the Bundesliga and CFR Cluj in the Champions League.

Gomez told reporters: “Even I can see my own potential now. One can always improve, but I know my strengths and I know that I am complete!