What Petry’s case reveals: diversity does not equal tolerance

Zsolt Petry – 38-time national team’s goalkeeper, winner of the European Championship – was dismissed from the Hertha Berlin football team this week. The first-class German team’s goalkeeper coach expressed his thoughts on political issues along with professional sports topics in his interview with Magyar Nemzet. Petry’s thoughts were not in harmony with Hertha's values; the club questioned their employee that same day, but foreseeably, the story did not end there. On Tuesday, Hertha terminated his contract, effective immediately, after six years of his service.

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The youth EB goalkeeper champion finished his goalkeeping career in 2004 in Paderborn and has lived in Germany since then. He has been following the migration situation in Western Europe’s largest country and does not like what he sees. “I can’t even understand how Europe is capable of sinking to the moral depths it is at now. Immigration policy to me is the manifestation of moral decline. We should continue to live our lives in Europe according to the national values that we’ve learned over many years. Europe is a Christian continent and I am reluctant to watch the moral degradation sweeping across our continent. The liberals magnify the counter-opinions: if you don’t consider migration good because a horrifying number of criminals has swept Europe, you’re branded a racist. This should not be allowed – the opinion of others is tolerated less and less, especially if it's a conservative opinion” – said Petry, Hungarian National team member coached by Erwin Koeman in 2008, in his interview with Magyar Nemzet.

Petry did not condemn Péter Gulácsi (the Hungarian national goalkeeper campaigning for LGBTQ couples to be able to adopt children) on principle – he merely said he disagreed. Petry emphasized that in the shoes of Gulácsi, an active football player, he would focus on football rather than formulate opinions on public, social policy issues because that divides the people.

Eventually, this became Petry’s loss too. Hertha does not tolerate any opposition.

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