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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.”

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

Czech football star Jakub Jankto has bee the first active ternatnal men's player to announce he is gay. * gay international footballer *

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

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

Jakub Jankto, the Czech Republic ternatnal footballer, has e out as gay, announcg that he wants to live ‘whout fear and whout prejudice’ * gay international footballer *

Jakub Jankto, the Czech Republic ternatnal and Getafe midfielr on loan at Sparta Prague, has e out as gay. 'FIFA have ma me feel exclud:' Sole gay top flight player hs out on Qatar armband ban. 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.

The Alai Uned midfielr and former Atralian youth ternatnal ma headl last year when he me out as gay.

Kev Maxen has bee the first male ach a US men’s profsnal sports league to e out as gay. Per Outsports, as of September 2022, there have only ever been 16 players NFL history to publicly e out as gay or bisexual. Carl Nassib beme the first active NFL player league history to announce that he is gay 2021.

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

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Per Outsports, Maxen is the “first publicly out male ach a major Amerin men’s pro sports league, ” wh WNBA ach Curt Miller, who publicly me out to the media as gay 2015, also a publicly out male ach an Amerin profsnal sports league. Jakub Jankto, seen here playg for the Czech Republic natnal team, announced on Monday that he is gay. I am homosexual, and I no longer want to hi myself.

Atralia's Josh Cavallo me out 2021 as the first man top-tier ternatnal soccer to announce that he's gay. Brish player Jake Daniels announced 2022 that he's gay.

He was the first player om the Uned Kgdom sce Jt Fashanu 1990 to announce that he's gay.

KEV MAXEN BE FIRST MALE ACH A US MEN’S PROFSNAL SPORTS LEAGUE TO PUBLICLY E OUT AS GAY

Kev Maxen has bee the first male ach a US men’s profsnal sports league to e out as gay. * gay international footballer *

Jakub Jankto is the latt male pro footballer to publicly e out as gay. Czech Republic ternatnal footballer Jakub Jankto has said he wants to be “posive spiratn” to other gay players who have yet to e out, followg the posive rponse to his recent announcement. Jankto’s move mak him the only out gay ternatnal the men’s game, and one of jt a small number of well-known footballers to have e out while still playg.

There is a small but growg number of out gay male profsnal footballers currently playg around the world. Jake Williamson, a gay footballer and Stonewall sports ambassador, scribed the event as huge, nsirg the global outlook for LGBTQ+ people. Jakub Jankto says he ‘no longer want to hi’ after g out as gay (Pictur: Getty)Czech Republic midfielr and La Liga footballer Jakub Jankto has e out as gay.

CZECH SOCCER PLAYER JAKUB JANKTO OUT AS GAY

Czech Republic ternatnal footballer Jakub Jankto has given his first terview sce g out as gay a viral vio. * gay international footballer *

‘I am homosexual, and I no longer want to hi myself. A year later, Blackpool’s Jake Daniels me out as the UK’s only openly gay active male profsnal footballer. MORE: Patrice Evra claims Wt Ham stars wanted gay players kicked out.

Getafe midfielr Jakub Jankto, who is on loan at Sparta Prague, has bee the third active footballer to e out as gay, followg Alai Uned fenr Josh Cavallo and Blackpool striker Jake Daniels.

Blackpool's Jake Daniels out as gayAlai Uned's Josh Cavallo out as gay.

JAKUB JANKTO: GAY CZECH FOOTBALLER REVEALS OTHER LGBTQ+ PLAYERS ARE ‘AAID’ TO E OUT

Czech Republic midfielr and La Liga footballer Jakub Jankto has e out as gay. The 27-year-old said he 'no longer wanted' to hi after beg the hight-profile current male footballer... * gay international footballer *

I'm homosexual and I no longer want to hi myself. Jankto follows the footsteps of Atralian Josh Cavallo, who me out publicly 2021, and Jake Daniels of Blackpool, who is the only current Brish male player to reveal he is gay. Jon Holm, founr of Sports Media LGBT+, discs the impact of Jakub Jankto's cisn to e out as gay and why is such a signifint moment football.

Jakub is the first active senr ternatnal player to e out as gay or bisexual publicly.

INTERNATNAL FOOTBALLER JAKUB JANKTO OUT AS GAY: ‘I NO LONGER WANT TO HI’

Getafe midfielr Jakub Jankto, who is on loan at Sparta Prague, has bee the third active footballer to e out as gay, followg Alai Uned fenr Josh Cavallo and Blackpool striker Jake Daniels * gay international footballer *

"I thk many people will be faiar wh male footballers g out over the years, but to do at the ele level, to do at the age of 27 when you've won over 40 ternatnal ps for his untry, this is a life-changg moment for him, but also shifts the men's game to a new stage of unrstandg the experienc of what 's like to be gay or bisexual and to play at that level. An ternatnal footballer has publicly announced that he is gay, beg the first active ternatnally-pped player to do Reacts To Footballer Comg Out As GayOn Monday, Czech Republic and Sparta Prague wger Jakub Jankto beme the first active ternatnal footballer to e out as gay. "I am homosexual, and I no longer want to hi myself.

JAKUB JANKTO: CZECH REPUBLIC TERNATNAL OUT AS GAY SOCIAL MEDIA STATEMENT

An ternatnal footballer has publicly announced that he is gay, beg the first active ternatnally-pped player to do so. * gay international footballer *

"Pique's Msage For Footballer Who Com Out As GaySparta, meanwhile, said the player had spoken to the club and his teammat a while ago about his sexual inty and that he had their full support. 'I'm a footballer and I'm gay:' Hear pro-player reveal he's gay.

After beg the only current, openly gay player men’s top-flight football last month, Josh Cavallo says a new terview wh the Guardian that he would be “sred” to play at the 2022 FIFA World Cup Qatar bee of the untry’s homosexualy laws. Cavallo, who plays for Alai Uned Atralia’s A-League, received wispread support om the football muny and beyond when he announced on social media that he is gay, cludg om Barcelona fenr Gerard Piqué, Atléti Madrid forward Antoe Griezmann and Liverpool midfielr Jordan Henrson.

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The 21-year-old has now voiced his ncerns about next year’s World Cup Qatar, where homosexualy is illegal and punishable by up to three years prison.

GAY FOOTBALLER JOSH CAVALLO SAYS HE WOULD BE ‘SRED’ TO PLAY AT THE 2022 WORLD CUP QATAR

“I read somethg along the l of giv a ath penalty for gay people Qatar. He add: “One of the greatt achievements as a profsnal footballer is to play for your untry and to know that [the World Cup] is a untry that don’t support gay people and puts at risk of our own life, that do sre me and that do me make re-evaluate. Acrdg to a report to state-sponsored homophobia by Lus Ramón Mendos of the human rights group ILGA World, Qatar “ns Sharia urts, where technilly is possible that Mlim men uld be put to ath for same-sex sexual behavurs.

“Not havg anyone to look up to and to see okay, they’re playg football and they’re gay and they’re havg a succsful reer – that is somethg that sred me and somethg that I was worried that if I was to potentially e out one day, would affect my reer a bad way?

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Jakub Jankto: Players 'aaid' to e out, gay footballer says .

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