The Growing Commercialization of the Game

Fashanu's induction celebrates the impression his bravery left on football, and comes on what would have been his 59th birthday. Fashanu tragically took his own ... Oct 19, 2020 ... ... Justin Fashanu became the world's first professional footballer to come out as gay. To this day, he's the UK's only top-tier male football ... Feb 16, 2013 ... Gay soccer star Justin Fashanu. Football has had no openly gay players in this country since Justin Fashanu. PA. Matthew Syed. Saturday February ... Oct 5, 2017 ... Today, Fashanu is most often remembered as the first openly gay footballer. A new documentary, Forbidden Games: The Justin Fashanu Story, does ... Feb 17, 2020 ... Justin Fashanu, Britain's first openly gay footballer, to be inducted into Hall of Fame ... Britain's first and only openly gay footballer, Justin ... Feb 19, 2025 ... He was also the first male English professional footballer to come out as gay while still playing high level competitive football in 1990. Feb 19, 2020 ... ... Soccer Star: I Am Gay”. The sub-header 'Justin Fashanu confesses' – with its implication that by being gay, the footballer was doing ... Sep 21, 2020 ... In a letter via the Justin Fashanu Foundation the player says football has 'not moved on' Feb 21, 2014 ... Justin Fashanu (Justinus Soli Fashanu, 1961–1998) was an English professional footballer, the only professional footballer in the UK (and so far one of only ... May 10, 2017 ... Fascinating documentary chronicles the turbulent life of the first out gay professional soccer player two decades after his suicide.