Thomas Berling

Thomas Berling (born 21 January 1979) is a retired Norwegian football defender. His retirement from football sparked media attention.

He started his career in Nardo FK, and joined Lyn ahead of the 1999 season. He played four games in the second highest Norwegian league,^[1] and also played for the u-19 national team.^[2]

In 2000 he disappeared from professional football. It later surfaced that he had come forward as homosexual, and that he quit football as a result of the manifest homophobia in the community.^[2] In 2001 he briefly came out of retirement, playing for lower league Drøbak/Frogn IF.^[2]

References

^ Profile at Lyn Fotball.net
^ ^a ^b ^c "Homohets rammet landslagsspiller". Dagbladet (in Norwegian). 27 April 2001. Retrieved 9 February 2009.

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[1] Profile at Lyn Fotball.net

[db-2] "Homohets rammet landslagsspiller". Dagbladet (in Norwegian). 27 April 2001. Retrieved 9 February 2009.

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