Joining Croatian Football Federation president Vlatko Markovic (who was since “apologized”) in declaring the sport a gay free zone, Zdravko Mamic, an executive for the team Dinamo Zagreb, tells a newspaper, “I would not have Gay people playing in my national team either. Gay people are for ballet. They can be journalists or writers. They would never put their head in front of a football boot.” Well we’d put your head in front of one.

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