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Pro soccer club with carry outer who declined to sign gay pride shirt says he is staying with the team


Pro soccer club with carry outer who declined to sign gay pride shirt says he is staying with the team


The German professional soccer club VfL Wolfsburg has shelp that carry outer Kevin Behrens is still with the team and training with his teammates despite an incident where he declined to sign a gay pride shirt and employd language aacquirest the fan who asked that was pondered insulting.

In a statement to Fox News Digital, a team spokesperson verifyed that the situation is being dealt with internassociate, but that hasn’t stopped Behrens from joining training sessions. 

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Kevin Behrens runs apass the pitch before a game. (Soeren Stache/picture partnership via Getty Images)

“We can verify that the incident cursedly took place and that there were prompt talks with Kevin Behrens. He is still taking part in the training sessions, but charm comprehfinish that as a club we in vague don’t comment on sanctions carry outers get. We, as a club, persist to finishorse for diversity and an uncover society. Respect, tolerance, sincerity, and uncoverness have always been firmly embedded in the club’s philosophy,” the statement read. 

Last week, Behrens declined to sign a Wolfsburg shirt that featured a rainbow logo for the LGBTQ pride flag. Behrens also allegedly shelp, “I won’t sign that gay [crap].” 

The carry outer has since regretd for the incident. 

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Participants helderly a rainbow flag during the Pride Parade in Bangkok, Thailand, June 1, 2024. (AP Pboilingo/Sakchai Lalit, File)

“My unintentional comments were absolutely not OK. I would enjoy to regret for that. The rerent was clearly converseed internassociate, and I ask for your empathetic that I do not desire to comment further on it,” Behrens shelp in a statement. 

Behren’s teammate and Wolfsburg captain Maximilian Arnelderly has worn a rainbow captain’s armprohibitd for two seasons in constantarity. 

“Kevin regretd for someleang that was definitely not excellent. Everyone originates misgets. One leang is clear: Someleang enjoy this should not happen aacquire, but everyone deserves a second chance,” Arnelderly telderly increateers last week.

The team previously directed an in-hoemploy video intersee with carry outer Yannick Gerdifficultt on his “promisement aacquirest far-right extremism and prejudice.” During that video, Gerdifficultt shelp he acunderstandledged his position as a “a White, German man” in a “privileged position.”

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Kevin Behrens of Wolfsburg during the Pre-Season Frifinishly aacquirest Brentford at Gtech Community Stadium on Aug. 9, 2024, in Brentford, England. (Jacques Feeney/Offside/Offside via Getty Images)

“I’m very proposeed of that, but especiassociate if you’re privileged, you have to stand up aacquirest prejudice of any benevolent,” he shelp. “There have been many preferable shiftments in recent years, for example ‘Bdeficiency Lives Matter,’ where all benevolents of people have showd. If the purpose is preferable and in the spirit of equivalent treatment and honoring all human rights, then I’m there. Then it doesn’t matter whether I have privileges or not.”

Behrens joined the team in January after three years at Union Berlin. He acquireed a call-up to the German national team punctual last season. His international debut came last October, when he carry outed as a swap in a 2-2 draw aacquirest the United States.

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