Blackpool's Jake Daniels is first UK male footballer to come out as gay since 1990
Blackpool’s Jake Daniels has become the UK’s first currently active male professional footballer to come out as gay.
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Chelsea message Jake Daniels as Blackpool star becomes first gay UK pro footballer in decades
Chelsea have shown their support to Blackpool youngster Jake Daniels, who has become the first professional footballer since Justin Fashanu in 1990 to come out as gay.
Jake Daniels: ‘Inspirational’ Blackpool forward comes out as gay, the first active male EFL footballer to do so in UK
Blackpool forward Jake Daniels has been praised for his courage after the 17-year-old became the first active male professional footballer to come out as gay in the UK. Daniels is the first Football League player to come out since Justin Fashanu in 1990, and follows Adelaide United’s Josh Cavallo, who came out as the only gay male top-flight footballer in the world back in October.
Championship teenager ready to come out as gay and "break stigma" in football next week
A teenage footballer from a Championship club is reportedly going to come out as gay next week and become the only current openly homosexual male professional player in Britain.
Liga MX, MLS and NWSL teams unite in bid to eliminate homophobia
Teams from Liga MX, Major League Soccer (MLS) and the National Women's Soccer League (NWSL) and others have formed a coalition to eliminate homophobia from soccer, the group said on Friday.
Online abuse at footballers to be tackled by AI software after Marcus Rashford case
Artificial Intelligence (AI) software is set to be implemented in Australia to stop top-flight footballers from being abused online.
Online abuse targeting footballers to be tackled by ‘world first’ AI software
We live in an age of rampant online abuse, a modern-day world in which people can anonymously spread derogatory, harmful and offensive language and its receiver can do little apart from calling it out or calling the police.