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Borja Iglesias: "It Saddens Me that It Seems Impossible for Gay Footballers to Come Out of the Closet"
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The Celtic footballer reflected in an interview with L'Equipe on homophobia in football and his commitment to denounce it. More information: Celta-Rayo: Nails painted against homophobic insults to Borja Iglesias
For performance, one of the footballers of the moment in LaLiga. For the extrasport, one of the players who is most in the 'eye of the hurricane' for his declarations and political opinions. Borja Iglesias is usually the center of homophobic insults. Some comments to which he has referred on numerous occasions. In this interview for the French medium L'Équipe, he has done it again.
Borja Iglesias has responded to all his critics in an interview in France before the match that the Celta de Vigo has to contest against the Olympian of Lyon this Thursday on the occasion of the eighth finals of the Europa League. The Spanish striker has answered the controversial questions about homosexuality accompanied by the insults he receives in some fields of Spain. Borja Iglesias began in this interview talking about when he began to pai…
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In recent weeks, football has become a breeding ground for retrograde behaviors. The insults from the stage and in the playing field have multiplied in a leap to the past, decades that seemed exterminated, in dark years in which the stadiums lived anchored in preterite times and behaviors that today seemed completely forgotten were tolerated.
Borja Iglesias, Against Homophobia in Football: “It Still Seems Impossible to Get Out of the Closet”
The Spanish striker Borja Iglesias, the current attacker of Celta de Vigo, again showed his most committed side outside the courts and opened a debate that remains sensitive within professional football: the lack of players who speak openly about their sexual orientation. For the Spanish international, the culture of sport still imposes barriers that prevent many footballers from showing themselves as they are. In an interview with the French da…
Borja Iglesias, Celta’s striker, said on Tuesday that it “saddens” that it still seems “impossible” for homosexual footballers to “come out of the closet.” In an interview with the sports daily L’Équipe, two days from measuring the Lyon Olympian in the one-way match of the European League’s final eighths, the Galician international attacker reflects on homophobia in football and his commitment to denounce it.“Players like David Beckham and Guti …
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