(CNN) The controversial owner of a leading Romanian football team has said it is "against human nature" and "dangerous" for women to play football -- adding that he would quit the sport if he was ever forced to create a women's team.

Gigi Becali, owner of FCSB -- formerly known as Steaua Bucharest -- and a former member of the Romanian parliament who resigned after being convicted for corruption, has previously made racist, sexist and homophobic remarks.

Speaking on the television channel Pro X in a live phone-in, the FCSB owner was asked how he would react if UEFA, European football's governing body, were ever to force him to form a women's football team.

"I'll quit football!" Becali -- who has been convicted of kidnap and once received an award for being the most homophobic person in Romania -- told the TV program "Ora exacta in sport."

"You can't do things against God's will," he added.

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