Risky comment about "queers"

Antonio Cassano hopes there aren't any gays in the Italy team at the European Championships but wouldn't know if there were any.

The jovial joker was asked during a Euro 2012 press conference about a rumour that there are two homosexuals and two metrosexuals in the Italy squad, a question which visibly amused the AC Milan striker.

"What's a metrosexual?" he asked the questioner.

"If they're queer, that's their problem. I hope there aren't any queers in the national team.  "But if they're queer, it's their business. Are there any? I don't know."

The question and answer brought howls of laughter from the Italian press corps after which Cassano turned to the translator and added: "You're not going to translate that to the Polish press, are you?"

Cassano then said he hoped his answer has sufficed "because if not, you know I'll be attacked from every direction".

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Italians tend to be disrespectful of political correctness so he appears to have suffered no adverse consequences for his comment.  Had he been an American it could well have been very different.