Jakub Jankto, the Czech Republic ternatnal footballer, has e out as gay, announcg that he wants to live ‘whout fear and whout prejudice’
Contents:
- A-LEAGUE FOOTBALLER JOSH CAVALLO OUT PUBLICLY AS GAY: 'I'M TIRED OF THIS DOUBLE LIFE'
- JAKE DANIELS BE FIRST UK MALE FOOTBALLER TO E OUT AS GAY SCE 1990
- ‘I NO LONGER WANT TO HI’: JAKUB JANKTO, CZECH TERNATNAL, OUT AS GAY
- KEV MAXEN BE FIRST MALE ACH A US MEN’S PROFSNAL SPORTS LEAGUE TO PUBLICLY E OUT AS GAY
A-LEAGUE FOOTBALLER JOSH CAVALLO OUT PUBLICLY AS GAY: 'I'M TIRED OF THIS DOUBLE LIFE'
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A-League midfielr Josh Cavallo has e out as gay, beg the only known current male top-flight profsnal footballer the world to be out. "I'm a footballer and I'm gay, " the 21-year-old said an emotnal vio posted on Alai Uned's social media. "Cavallo is the first active gay profsnal footballer to e out Atralia's top-flight, sayg he was done wh feelg "ashamed" about his add: "I'm tired of tryg to perform at the bt of your abily and to live this double life, 's exhstg.
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JAKE DANIELS BE FIRST UK MALE FOOTBALLER TO E OUT AS GAY SCE 1990
"Few ele male footballers have e out as gay durg their Aston Villa, Wt Ham, and Everton player Thomas Hzlsperger waed until the year after he retired 2013 before g out Leeds Uned player Robbie Rogers me out while ially announcg his retirement Febary 2013 shortly after beg released, before returng wh LA Galaxy and wng the MLS Cup to bee the first openly gay male athlete to w a major profsnal team sports tle the Uned Brennan beme the first former A-League player to e out May 2019 when the ex-Newstle Jet was still playg a lower Mart, an out gay male profsnal footballer who plays for San Diego Loyal the USL, gave his support for Cavallo on social media. Cavallo said Thomas Beattie, a former youth player for English club Hull Cy who me out 2020, had been a "role mol" helpg him on his journey and hoped their example might help change thgs for other young gay men sport.
"Statistics show only 33% of young gay men play football parison to 68% of young straight men, " he said.
"It is astonishg to know that there are currently no gay profsnal footballers who are out and actively playg, not only Atralia, but around the world. 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.
‘I NO LONGER WANT TO HI’: JAKUB JANKTO, CZECH TERNATNAL, OUT AS GAY
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.
KEV MAXEN BE FIRST MALE ACH A US MEN’S PROFSNAL SPORTS LEAGUE TO PUBLICLY E OUT AS GAY
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”. 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.
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.