Czech soccer participant Jakub Jankto comes out as homosexual

Czech Republic midfielder Jakub Jankto posted a video on social media on Monday saying he’s homosexual, making him one of the high-profile male soccer gamers to come back out.

Jankto posted a video on Twitter saying: “I’m homosexual. And I no longer want to hide myself.”

The 27-year-old Jankto is enjoying for Sparta Prague this season on mortgage from Spanish membership Getafe. He has beforehand performed for Italian golf equipment Sampdoria and Udinese and has made 45 appearances for the Czech nationwide workforce, scoring 4 targets and organising 13 extra.

“Like everyone else, I want to live my life with freedom, without fear, without violence, without prejudice, but with love,” Jankto says within the video.

Former Udinese and Sampdoria midfielder Jakub Jankto has come out as homosexual, in what could possibly be an enormous turning level for therefore many in males’s soccer who really feel the necessity to conceal an enormous a part of themselves. 👏💙

Well completed, Jakub.

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— Total Italian Football (@SerieATotal) February 13, 2023

Sparta Prague’s official Twitter account retweeted the video and mentioned “you have our support.”

“Live your life, Jakub,” the membership added.

Getafe additionally posted a message on Twitter, saying: “Our utmost respect and unconditional support to our player Jakub Jankto.”

The Czech nationwide workforce mentioned “nothing is changing for us.”

The Premier League responded to Jankto’s video with a remark saying: “We’re with you, Jakub. Football is for everyone.”

Jankto has a 3-year-old son, David, along with his companion Marketa. Their relationship resulted in 2021.

While girls’s soccer options many outstanding LGBTQ+ gamers, it’s nonetheless uncommon for skilled male gamers to come back out publicly as homosexual.

Josh Cavallo, who performs for Adelaide United in Australia, turned the one overtly homosexual participant in a prime males’s league when he got here out in 2021.

Last yr, Jake Daniels of English second-division membership Blackpool turned the primary lively male skilled soccer participant in Britain to publicly say he’s homosexual.