Jake Daniels, a 17-year-old footballer who is usually at the English Blackpool quarry, decided to break the barriers of stigma by declaring himself homosexual on Monday. For a matter of statistics, everything suggests that he is far from the only active gay footballer, and not the only one who has announced it publicly. The first to do so was Justin Fashanplayers of the 80s and 90s with a tragic ending.
Fashanu he fought his entire life against homophobia, suffered in his own flesh, and the suffering that resulted pushed him to take his own life in 1998, at the age of 37 and had previously hung up his boots. “Our childhood experiences are what make us who we are, misunderstanding and lack of love hurts you,” he once said in an interview.
Born in north-east London in 1961, he first saw in the sport an escape route from a complicated childhood, but it eventually became a way out of the lungs to land on fire. At the time he was the first black player to be paid a million pounds, and he became part of Nottingham Forest from brian clough in the early 1980s immediately after winning two European Cups. And in 1990 when he decided to make his homosexuality public after a lot of rumors about it.
From there, his life became a misery, in 1998 he was accused of sexual abuse of a minor and on May 2 of the same year he decided to commit suicide. “I realize I have been convicted. I don’t want to give my family and friends any more worries,” he wrote in a note as tragic as his own end.
Source: La Verdad
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