A post shared by Marco Lehmann (@marcolehmann_13) A Swiss basketball player has come out as gay. Marco Lehmann wrote an essay for Fiba3x3.Lehman, 27, plays for Team Lausanne and has also helped lead Switzerland to two FIBA 3×3 Europe Cup appearances (3 x 3 is a form of the game played three a side on one basketball hoop).
He was the top scorer in the Switzerland basketball league at the end of the 2016-2017 season. He originally comes from Kloten, a small city outside Zurich.In the article, he says, that his family, friends, and teammates have known of his sexuality for a while, but he’s not spoken about it publicly.“I probably could have kept it a secret until the twilight of my professional career.