There are gay footballers the Premier League who have e out to teammat but fear a homophobic backlash om fans, an sir has said.
Contents:
- JAKE DANIELS BE FIRST UK MALE FOOTBALLER TO E OUT AS GAY SCE 1990
- EVRA: THERE ARE AT LEAST TWO GAY PLAYERS AT EVERY FOOTBALL CLUB
- THERE ARE GAY PREMIER LEAGUE FOOTBALLERS WHO HAVE E OUT TO TEAMMAT BUT FEAR HOMOPHOBIC BACKLASH OM FANS, SAYS SIR
- PREMIER LEAGUE FOOTBALLERS OPENLY GAY RELATNSHIP AMID WORLD CUP NTROVERSY
- AT LEAST 20 FOOTBALLERS PREMIER LEAGUE AND CHAMPNSHIP ARE GAY BUT THEY'RE AAID TO E OUT SAYS EX-CLUB BOSS
JAKE DANIELS BE FIRST UK MALE FOOTBALLER TO E OUT AS GAY SCE 1990
Patrice Evra has claimed there are at least two gay footballers at each club the world, but he believ some of his former teammat were aaid to e out due to homophobic at * gay footballers in english premier league *
The Blackpool forward Jake Daniels has end s of silence wh men’s football to bee the first player the UK to e out as gay sce Jt Fashanu 1990. Photograph: Pl Dennis/TGS Photo/ShutterstockDaniels’s revelatn is a strikg landmark that when men’s football is more engaged wh social issu than any recent time, but still unable to ce progrs LGBTQ reprentatn wh the year Alai Uned’s Josh Cavallo beme the only male top-flight profsnal footballer the world to e out as gay, but others are yet to follow. In six months the men’s World Cup will be played Qatar, where homosexualy is illegal, and Cavallo revealed to the Guardian he would be “sred” to play at the tournament, the pnacle of world English football specifilly, the shadow of the talented and unfulfilled Fashanu still lgers over the game.
EVRA: THERE ARE AT LEAST TWO GAY PLAYERS AT EVERY FOOTBALL CLUB
* gay footballers in english premier league *
The England ternatnal me out at the end of his reer and was to take his own life eight years later, Fashanu, Jt’s niece, who ns a charable foundatn his name, said that Daniels’s cisn would “e as a huge fort to the many footballers at all levels of the game still secretly livg as gay and who still feel unable to e out”. ESPatrice Evra has claimed there are at least two gay footballers at each club the world, but he believ some of his former teammat were aaid to e out due to homophobic are currently no openly gay players the Premier League, but efforts have been to make English football more clive through the Rabow Lac former left-back, who played for Manchter Uned and Juvent among others, has revealed his own eye-openg experienc durg his playg reer.
"When I was England, they brought someone to talk to the team about homosexualy, " Evra told Le Parisien. "Some of my lleagu said, 'It is agast my relign, if there is a homosexual this locker room, let him leave the club' and other ments. I played wh players who were gay.
THERE ARE GAY PREMIER LEAGUE FOOTBALLERS WHO HAVE E OUT TO TEAMMAT BUT FEAR HOMOPHOBIC BACKLASH OM FANS, SAYS SIR
"There are at least two players per club who are gay. "Evra's ments e jt days after gay Atralian footballer Josh Cavallo lled out homophobic abe which was aimed at him durg an A-League match on on MbappeThe Frenchman also discsed Paris Sat-Germa star Kylian Mbappe, suggtg he has the personaly of a polician. A number of male Premier League footballers have e out as gay to their teammat while ntug to hi their sexualy public, an sir has claimed.
The claim me om former England women’s team footballer Enla Alo, who says gay male footballers won’t risk g out the public doma bee of the homophobic backlash they’d face. Asked to clarify her claim by Labour MP Clive Effort that there are current footballers who have told their teammat that they are gay, Alo said: “Y that’s right.
PREMIER LEAGUE FOOTBALLERS OPENLY GAY RELATNSHIP AMID WORLD CUP NTROVERSY
“Ultimately I thk there’s statistics that say of urse there would be gay players, and I thk the bety of is actually 99. 9 per cent of players would say ‘I wouldn’t re if my teammate was gay’. “The issue really now is that fear of what fans will do and are gog to say, but I don’t thk that is as legimate a fear as ed to be bee we’re livg a world now where beg gay is somethg that is wily accepted.
“Y, you will be subjected to abe on social media as women are, as black people are – there’s so much – but I do thk now, let’s say if a current Premier League player out as gay, they will be wily praised, appld, ld and rpected.
Clear ‘distctn’ between g out as gay men’s and women’s football. “In women’s football you have a lot of players who are very fortable wh beg gay and very fortable wh their sexualy.
AT LEAST 20 FOOTBALLERS PREMIER LEAGUE AND CHAMPNSHIP ARE GAY BUT THEY'RE AAID TO E OUT SAYS EX-CLUB BOSS
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