Nagelsmann reacts to U19 coach’s coming out
Mar 29, 2026 7:16 p.m. | 1:15m
After the coming out of St. Pauli’s U19 coach Christian Dobrick, Julian Nagelsmann finds clear words in an exclusive conversation. “It’s good that he has the courage to do it and it’s a shame that we even have to discuss it,” says the national coach.
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I have friends myself, homosexuals, friends in my circle of friends and I know what it’s like when you have the feeling for a long time in your life that you can’t talk about it or that you can’t live it out. It’s torture and it’s anything but liberating and I know what it’s like once you’ve said it and I can empathize with it because I’ve also had these conversations with my friends. That’s why I think it’s good that he gathered the courage to do it. I think it was a great liberation for him. On the one hand, I think it’s a shame that we still have to discuss this and that it’s even an issue and that we, you have to ask me the question, not as a criticism of the question, but because it’s something completely normal and normality must finally take hold. It is already clearly anchored in society. Thank God for football, I agree with you. Unfortunately, it will probably take a while. I don’t think that’s right. And that’s why it’s good that there are brave people like him in football who make it public. And I think for him he can now feel a much better quality of life. And I hope that everyone else will also gather the courage and that at some point it will no longer mean that we have to discuss it, but that it will just be normal as it is.
