Marcus Urban
Marcus Urban (born 4 August 1971, earlier Marcus Schneider) is a former German soccer player. He played with the East German national youth football team and in the second division club Rot-Weiß Erfurt in the 1980s and early 1990s. Several years afterwards he came out as a gay man. He has spoken publicly about the difficulties that gay footballers experience, and he is now a spokeperson and campaigner on diversity issues in sport and the workplace.
As a child, he took on his step-father's surname, Schneider, but as an adult he changed it back to his mother's maiden name.
In 2008 the sports journalist Ronny Blaschke published an authorised biography of Urban. This is titled Versteckspieler: Die Geschichte des schwulen Fußballers Marcus Urban ('Hidden Player: the story of the gay footballer Marcus Urban')
http://media101.zgt.de.cdn.tlz.de/content/41/78/91/5I/4178915ITOKSEPSHI_FH5TAPJGFDTYHUWNCOKXEFL515062015/D951665710741.JPG