Chelsea's Florent Malouda on homophobia in football

From an interview with French left winger Florent Malouda on the Chelsea FC website:

The football world is now beginning to fight another long-standing enemy in homophobia, an issue Malouda believes is no different to other forms of discrimination in society.

'It is the same,' he says. 'Before people couldn't even speak about that like they were rejecting it and saying it is not existing - people who do it are wrong, hiding behind religion to explain their behaviour against gays, but you have to accept people as they are and once you understand that, you understand our differences are our strength.'

Read the full interview HERE.