Soccer Officially Announc It Is Gay

Contents:

• COLL MART IS U.S. SOCCER'S ONLY OPENLY GAY MALE PLAYER, AND HE'S WORKG TO MAKE THE GAME MORE CLIVE FOR FUTURE LGBTQ+ PLAYERS
• 8 MALE FOOTBALL PLAYERS WHO DARED TO COME OUT AS GAY
• BREAKING: SOCCER IS GAY
• "I NO LONGER WANT TO HI:" CZECH FOOTBALLER JAKUB JANKTO ANNOUNC HE IS GAY
• CZECH SOCCER PLAYER JAKUB JANKTO ANNOUNC HE IS GAY: 'I NO LONGER WANT TO HI MYSELF'
• 20 INSPIRG GAY AND LBIAN FOOTBALL (SOCCER) PLAYERS
• A GAY GIRL’S GUI TO THE 2023 WOMEN’S WORLD CUP
• JOSH CAVALLO: ONLY OPENLY GAY TOP-FLIGHT MALE FOOTBALLER SAYS FIFA’S ‘ONELOVE’ ARMBAND BAN HAS MA HIM FEEL ‘EXCLUD’
• TOP-LEVEL PRO SOCCER PLAYER JOSH CAVALLO OUT AS GAY, ENURAGG OTHERS THEY'RE 'NOT ALONE'
• ATRALIAN SOCCER STAR JOSH CAVALLO OUT AS GAY
• GAY PRO SOCCER REFEREE CLAIMS OVER 30% OF MALE SOCCER PLAYERS ARE GAY OR BI. IS THAT EVEN POSSIBLE?
• SOCCER OFFICIALLY ANNOUNC IT IS GAY
• MEET ZORROS LGBT: MEXI'S OPENLY GAY SOCCER TEAM
• PRI ON THE PCH: DO SOCCER HAVE A GAY PROBLEM?
• AT LEAST 20 FOOTBALLERS PREMIER LEAGUE AND CHAMPNSHIP ARE GAY BUT THEY'RE AAID TO E OUT SAYS EX-CLUB BOSS

COLL MART IS U.S. SOCCER'S ONLY OPENLY GAY MALE PLAYER, AND HE'S WORKG TO MAKE THE GAME MORE CLIVE FOR FUTURE LGBTQ+ PLAYERS

Moments earlier, an opposg player targeted Mart, an openly gay man, wh a homophobic slur, and as they gathered unr a tent at halftime, they discsed how to team was agreement: Somethg need to be done. "Beg able to have a posive msage e out of a really tough suatn was the silver lg, " he the only openly gay men's profsnal soccer player the Uned Stat -- and one of the few who have ever e out globally -- Mart has e to embrace the signifince of what he reprents, pecially for the LGBTQ+ muny.

Play1:48Coll Mart: Locker room support was all I needSan Diego Loyal midfielr Coll Mart says the support om his old teammat at Mnota Uned was a big help to him when he me out as gay.

Around those years, havg to hi, havg to remd myself that like, 'Oh, my bt iend on the team, who jt lled another person a f----t, he isn't really homophobic, but he is jt tryg to be hurtful to that person. "Mart is not unique that he didn't have ach who were willg to step to put an end to homophobic language when was ed. As the World Cup go on a untry where homosexualy is illegal, many global football fans are havg to reckon wh the sports' soccer remas one of the most popular sports around the world, very few players have been able to e out and enjoy a succsful reer afterwards.

8 MALE FOOTBALL PLAYERS WHO DARED TO COME OUT AS GAY

Gay players face prsure om teammat, ownership, ach, and fans over their are some of the men who have e out, fightg those stereotyp, and pavg the way for LGBTQ+ athlet who e after them. He me out 2011, and won the seventh season of Swedish realy show Let's Dance, beg the first out gay person to w. In 2014, he beme Bra's hight-profile out, gay player, and was the first out, gay male player to play at Wembley.

BREAKING: SOCCER IS GAY

Rogers me out as gay 2013, beg the first out gay man to pete a top North Amerin pro sports league when he played for the LA Galaxy that same year. "Cyd Zeigler, who scrib himself as a gay sports wrer, h out at the backlash, scribg as "crazy" that Amerins would turn their back on the team bee of this tweeted: "LOL the 'Amerins' who are now sudnly hopg the US los at the #WorldCup bee the team has some rabow flags around the facily Qatar.

But tak guts to e out and reveal one’s genr as gay, which is ually an act of urage a world that is not ndned to accept every genr.

"I NO LONGER WANT TO HI:" CZECH FOOTBALLER JAKUB JANKTO ANNOUNC HE IS GAY

Even though has already been three s sce Jt Fashanu first publicly me out as gay, there are only a few of them revealg . The primary reason behd many gay footballers not revealg their sexualy publicly is fear of homophobia on and off the pch. So, many profsnal leagu, teams, and players are raisg their voic to fight back agast homophobia so that gay footballers don’t face backlash while g out.

CZECH SOCCER PLAYER JAKUB JANKTO ANNOUNC HE IS GAY: 'I NO LONGER WANT TO HI MYSELF'

In 2020, durg the San Diego Loyal match agast Phoneix Risg FC, Mart released a story of homophobic sults directed toward him. One of the hight-profile male football players publicly clarg himself as gay is German footballer Thomas Hzlsperger.

Anton Hysen is the youngt son of retired Swedish footballer Glenn Hysen and one of the gay players football. Later, he was profiled on Swedish broadstg channel TV4 March 2011 a bate show (Can gays play football too?

20 INSPIRG GAY AND LBIAN FOOTBALL (SOCCER) PLAYERS

Likewise, he also participated the 7th edn of the realy TV show Lets Dance and beme the first-ever gay to w the ntt. Likewise, The Jt Fashanu All-stars football special event started Brighton to honor him and promote homosexualy football.

In June 2020, former profsnal footballer Tomas Beattie me out as gay durg an Amerin sports channel ESPN terview. Furthermore, he is one of the send Brish football players to publicly e out as gay after Jt Fashanu did 30 years ago. Therefore, a suable environment should be created through tn as a drivg factor, so gay footballers don’t feel prsured to reveal their sexualy.

A GAY GIRL’S GUI TO THE 2023 WOMEN’S WORLD CUP

On Monday, the US men’s natnal team unveiled a resign to the team’s logo that replac red strip the crt wh the rabow lors of the gay pri flag. Soccer’s cisn to e out of the closet ahead of the World Cup, and to live as s thentic self, was met wh shgs of “well, obvly” and “I always thought soccer might be gay sce that time I ught soccer tryg on my make-up and lipsyncg to Donna Summer.

JOSH CAVALLO: ONLY OPENLY GAY TOP-FLIGHT MALE FOOTBALLER SAYS FIFA’S ‘ONELOVE’ ARMBAND BAN HAS MA HIM FEEL ‘EXCLUD’

The empty, banal, gture-signalg allegiance to rporate neoliberale is tend to reassure a ty set of LGBT activists who qutn the league’s participatn the upg FIFA World Cup Qatar, a untry where homosexualy is illegal. The team, however, was quick to note the gay crt won’t be worn on the field but stead is displayed somewhere on their base Doha.

Wtern pk shirts prefer to not acknowledge areas of the world where actual, horrifyg, opprsn agast homosexuals occurs, namely the Middle East. Some lefti om an earlier era of activism attempted, to ltle fanfare, to draw attentn to the plight of gays Qatar. In October, Brish gay rights activist Peter Tatchell, a boomer, went to Qatar to ffle some feathers ahead of the World Cup.

TOP-LEVEL PRO SOCCER PLAYER JOSH CAVALLO OUT AS GAY, ENURAGG OTHERS THEY'RE 'NOT ALONE'

Forty-ne mut seems que genero, nsirg what would have happened to him Iran or Afghanistan where, sce the Taliban was restated by Print Bin last year, gay people have been hunted and murred routely, after a twenty-year reprieve durg the Amerin occupatn. Czech soccer player Jakub Jankto announced on Monday that he is gay a vio posted to social media, beg one of only a few openly out active ternatnal men's players.

ATRALIAN SOCCER STAR JOSH CAVALLO OUT AS GAY

""I am homosexual, and I no longer want to hi myself, " the star said what appears to be his first and only tweet. Atralia's Alai Uned player Josh Cavallo beme the only openly gay player a top-tier men's profsnal league when he me out 2022, Jake Daniels, of English club Blackpool, beme the first active male profsnal soccer player Bra to e out publicly sce 1990, acrdg to Sky News. He be the send current openly gay soccer player top-tier men's profsnal soccer, jog Atralian Josh Cavallo, who announced he was gay back 2021.

The Football Feratn l have been updated to clu gay and lbian players on the field alongsi straight players. However, this suatn has sparked a long-nng bate about the acceptance and ndong of gays and lbians football.

Fashanu ma headl October 1990 when he me out as gay to the public, beg the first profsnal soccer player to do so. There are some players on the list who a rear would expect to see bee they are well-known the world of lbianism and gays.

GAY PRO SOCCER REFEREE CLAIMS OVER 30% OF MALE SOCCER PLAYERS ARE GAY OR BI. IS THAT EVEN POSSIBLE?

He me out while playg for Leeds Uned 2013, 23 years after Jt Fashanu took the first step for gay soccer players around the world. Daniels ma headl May 2022 when he beme the send profsnal English soccer player to publicly e out as gay, 32 years after Jt Fashanu boldly claimed the tle.

Many high-profile English people praised him after he me out as gay, cludg Prce Harry, then-Prime Mister Boris Johnson, and England natnal team pta Harry Kane. Not only is this Atralian pro the only openly gay player the 2022 World Cup, but he’s also GQ’s 2022 Sportsman of the Year. This is where Matt Pacifici beme known through his Instagram announcement, a former Major League Soccer player who has e out publicly as gay an Instagram post troducg the world to his boyiend.

When he me out on Instagram January 2019, he beme the fifth openly gay current or former Major League Soccer player. In June 2018, he me out as gay, makg him the only openly gay player any of the big five Amerin sports leagu or any top-tier profsnal men’s natnal soccer league. Mart, 26, announced the news on Twter, statg that he had been openly gay to his iends and fay for years, but never on such a large sle.

SOCCER OFFICIALLY ANNOUNC IT IS GAY

Anton has been dubbed the “first high-profile Swedish footballer to announce that he is gay, ” as well as the “send active profsnal football player to e out, ” followg English footballer Jt Fashanu 1990.

MEET ZORROS LGBT: MEXI'S OPENLY GAY SOCCER TEAM

In December 2017, Davis publicly cricized ments ma by FA chairman Greg Clarke that “profsnal players who out themselv as homosexual would be takg a risk. The 32-year-old has spoken out to enurage male gay footballers to not be aaid of g out, sharg his own experienc as part of Uefa’s Equal Game mpaign, which aims to promote greater cln and diversy the sport.

The midfielr admted to receivg abe om opponents, but he believ football’s attus toward homosexualy are evolvg. He is a retired Amerin soccer player who, after his reer end 2011, beme the first male Amerin profsnal soccer player to e out as gay. Pter experienced homophobia om other players while playg for his lol club and was moted om the first to the fourth team after one of his teammat disvered he was gay.

Last time at the 2019 Women’s World Cup, the Netherlands lay claim to the honor of beg the team wh the most out LGBTQ players, but this year Atralia boasts 10 out players and overtak them for the tle of Gayt Team 2k23. Ireland’s historic entry to the tournament marks another triumph for out midfielr Sead Farrelly, whose natnal team but and 2023 return to the NWSL e more than six years after retirg om soccer the wake of systemic homophobic and sexual abe wh the league, which the Athletic first reported on 2021.

PRI ON THE PCH: DO SOCCER HAVE A GAY PROBLEM?

Josh Cavallo, the only openly gay top-flight male soccer player the sport, has told CNN that FIFA’s cisn to ban players om wearg “OneLove” armbands at the Qatar 2022 has ma him feel “exclud. Atralian soccer player Josh Cavallo, a midfielr for Alai Uned, me out as gay over social media early Wednday to bee the only men's top-level soccer player to be publicly out. Beg a closeted gay footballer, I've had to learn to mask my feelgs orr to f the mould of a profsnal footballer....

AT LEAST 20 FOOTBALLERS PREMIER LEAGUE AND CHAMPNSHIP ARE GAY BUT THEY'RE AAID TO E OUT SAYS EX-CLUB BOSS

"Cavallo's ternatnal g out follows a wave Amerin sports over the past four months that's seen three publicly gay athlet out the top four profsnal sports – Carl Nassib (NFL), Le Prokop (NHL mors) and Bryan Ruby (pro baseball mors).