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Revista de la Liga with Graham Hunter

Thomas Hitzlsperger: Playing Against Prejudice

Revista de la Liga with Graham Hunter

Graham Hunter

Soccer, Football, Sports

4.5863 Ratings

🗓️ 27 August 2016

⏱️ 36 minutes

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Summary

In part two of my interview with Thomas Hitzlsperger, the former Germany midfielder talks about his decision to take on some big issues outside football. This began in 2007, at the peak of his playing career, when he blogged about racism in football for a German site - the first story he wrote about concerned the racist abuse aimed at a Celtic player during a trial game Thomas played for the Scottish club before he joined Aston Villa.He also talks in length about his decision to come out as the most high-profile gay footballer. It's fascinating to hear him talk about how such a personal decision eventually influences a debate within wider football culture and impacts on individual lives in a way I don't believe he was expecting. Thanks for listening, und danke, Hammer.

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0:56.9

What stood out to me was that Thomas provided brilliant first-hand insights into what it was like to face that all-conquering Spanish

1:05.2

team for Germany, Euro-2008 when the adventure was just beginning.

1:09.1

He didn't just list memories.

1:11.5

He'd obviously thought a great deal about the Spanish players during the game and afterwards too and indeed it struck me that although the German players could have been mad at the way in which the Spaniards celebrated through the mix zone, made it look as if they were

1:25.4

triumphalist, not just triumphant. It's had a different view about the people he met for Spain that day and

1:31.6

he stopped me as a thinker. We touch on that subject again.

1:35.1

We talk about his take on Das reboot as Raffa Honekstein famously called it and

1:39.9

Kinsman inspired Revolution from 2006 which with the help of Samar and German

1:45.8

Bundusleiger took their football back to the top of the world in 2014. Thomas's

1:51.0

social conscience has been fundamental to much of what he's set out to accomplish in his life,

1:57.0

and we talk about both his campaigning work against racism and anti-Semitism,

2:02.0

and naturally, although football was the bigger part of the

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