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The first men’s World Cup player to come out as gay: ‘Some of my teammates knew’
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The first men’s World Cup player to come out as gay: ‘Some of my teammates knew’
Former France international winger Olivier Rouyer came out publicly as gay in 2008, the first former men’s soccer World Cup player to do so. Having played for his country at the 1978 World Cup in Argentina, during a soccer career in which he also played in an Olympic Games quarterfinal, he was being interviewed by a journalist when “the conversation drifted” towards sexuality. At the age of 52, he realized he didn’t want to pass up the chance to…
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