Skandal-Schiri is out of tears as homosexual

He once insulted Jürgen Klopp

Skandal-Schiri is out of tears as homosexual

Last year David Cote still delivered negative headlines. Now he decided to take a brave step. The referee made his homosexuality public.

The English football referee David Cote has publicly known for his homosexuality. “I am gay and I had problems being proud of being me,” says the 42-year-old in a video of the British tabloid “The Sun”.

Coote continues: “I felt a deep shame over a long time, especially in my teenage years. I didn’t come out to my parents until I was 21 years old. I didn’t come out to my friends until I was about 25 I was the only child of my father and I felt to disappoint him. “

Coote has to swallow again and again during his coming out. Tears take his eyes into his eyes when he reports about his difficult years and the hiding game about his sexuality. “I became good at hiding my emotions, which is a good quality as a referee, but a terrible as a person,” he explains.

At the end of last year, COOTE had caused a stir in England after two controversial videos from him appeared on social media within a very short time. In the first clip, the long-standing Premier League referee blasphemed about Liverpool FC and his then coach Jürgen Klopp. He insulted the Germans in the worst, also described him as “damn arrogant” and called him a liar. Cote was then suspended by the English referee organization PGMOL, later terminated.

The second video published by the “Sun” showed Coote through the nose when consuming a white powder. The alleged drug use is said to have happened during the European Championship in Germany last year to be precise on July 6th and thus a day after the DFB team left Spain in the quarter-finals of the tournament.

Spicy: Cote was on the part of Stuart Atwell Var assistant. In the extension of the game, the German team was denied a penalty after a handball by Marc Cucurella. The video assistant (VAR) did not intervene – and Germany lost the game.

Cote now also comments on both clips in his coming-out video. “The first thing I want to do is apologize to everyone that I have insulted with my actions,” he emphasizes in terms of the first clip, which should not have been well received, especially in Liverpool. Coote assures deeply.

When asked about the second video, which shows the alleged consumption of drugs, the referee confirms that the white powder was cocaine, but he took it irregularly. “The job would not have allowed that and it wasn’t something that I was dependent on.” The intake was “ad hoc”, said Cote. In his life he made “bad decisions in a personal context”. These had hung together with his self -confidence, which in turn was linked to his sexuality.

With his step to address things publicly, he now wants to encourage colleagues who may be in the same situation as he, says Cote. He had the feeling that that was his duty. “If you have problems as I had, as I still have for the most part, then find help and talk to someone,” said Cote.