Jakub Jankto: Czech footballer be first active ternatnal men's player to announce he is gay | CNN

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• ‘I NO LONGER WANT TO HI’: JAKUB JANKTO, CZECH TERNATNAL, OUT AS GAY
• CZECH SOCCER PLAYER JAKUB JANKTO ANNOUNC HE IS GAY: 'I NO LONGER WANT TO HI MYSELF'
• CZECH FOOTBALLER JAKUB JANKTO BE FIRST ACTIVE TERNATNAL MEN’S PLAYER TO ANNOUNCE HE IS GAY
• WELL DONE JAKUB JANKTO. NOW FOOTBALL HAS TO SUPPORT S MOST HIGH-PROFILE GAY PLAYER
• JAKUB JANKTO TO BEE THE FIRST OPENLY GAY FOOTBALLER SERIE A

‘I NO LONGER WANT TO HI’: JAKUB JANKTO, CZECH TERNATNAL, OUT AS GAY

Jakub Jankto, the Czech Republic ternatnal and Getafe midfielr on loan at Sparta Prague, has e out as gay. “I am homosexual, and I no longer want to hi myself. Czech Republic midfielr Jakub Jankto announced on Monday that he is gay.

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

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.

I'm homosexual and I no longer want to hi myself. Czech football star Jakub Jankto has bee the first active ternatnal men’s player to announce he is gay. Jankto jos Atralian player Josh Cavallo as the only openly gay top-flight male footballers the world.

CZECH FOOTBALLER JAKUB JANKTO BE FIRST ACTIVE TERNATNAL MEN’S PLAYER TO ANNOUNCE HE IS GAY

So now for the real Jankto has done the brave b, the part that no doubt seemed impossibly hard at tim his has told the world he is gay and not jt any old world — the football one. And at that moment, as evably as Brentford’s Ivan Toney or Real Madrid’s Vici Junr beg racially abed for darg to play football, Jankto will receive homophobic abe.

But will maybe he will be lucky and won’t happen straight away when he’s playg club football (the Czech Republic is one of eastern Europe’s most progrsive untri regardg LGBTQ+ polici) the moment will e one of his untry’s upg ternatnals (if he’s selected) agast Poland, Hungary or Moldova, where gay men and women are send-class will happen. How football then reacts and supports him is where the doubt fans be prosecuted and banned om stadiums if they’re homophobic? Will you report homophobic language around you at a match?

Jankto actn for his untry (Photo: Michal Cizek/AFP via Getty Imag)Bee so far (wh a few exceptns such as Jurgen Klopp and the German natnal team), football has been very good at turng s Twter badg and s rner flags rabow, very good at puttg up out-of-touch men to tell the world that ‘today I am gay’, but very bad at creatg an environment that is genuely open and mak what Jankto has done all the more imprsive and wonrful.

WELL DONE JAKUB JANKTO. NOW FOOTBALL HAS TO SUPPORT S MOST HIGH-PROFILE GAY PLAYER

Jakub Jankto is set to return to the Serie A and will bee the first openly gay footballer the league. Acrdg to a report by Corriere Della Serra, Cagliari have succsfully negotiated the signg of Jakub Jankto om La Liga si Getafe and he is set to bee the first openly gay footballer Serie A. The 27-year-old revealed his homosexual inty last season while playg on loan at Slavia Prague and received wispread support om the football universe.

JAKUB JANKTO TO BEE THE FIRST OPENLY GAY FOOTBALLER SERIE A

Homosexualy is often kept hidn football but Jankto stands as an spiratn for many such athlet who are nsirg announcg their sexual inty.