Tag: football
‘Football for All’: Dutch Stand Up for Gay Players’ Rights
Next month, the Dutch national football team’s coach plans to take a stand for the rights of gay players at the Amsterdam Gay Pride parade.
Clubs don’t want players coming out as gay
Football clubs are worried about damaging their reputation and the marketability of players if a player comes out as homosexual, said the niece of the late gay footballer Justin Fashanu.
Football is still an unwelcoming place but progress can be made against homophobia
In an exclusive interview, Hotshots FC talks to editor, of Scotzine, Andy Muirhead . Scotland’s first Lesbian-Gay-Bisexual-Transgender football team has claimed that football is still an unwelcoming environment for LGBT players and supporters, but with the help of football governing bodies progress can be made against homophobia.
Racist and homophobic abuse will now carry five-match ban, as the FA are accused of wasting an opportunity
Racist and homophobic abuse by players will carry a minimum five-match ban from next season, the Football Association has announced.
Homophobia in school sport must be challenged, says TUC
Commenting on research published Monday by Bournemouth University, which shows that homophobic behaviour is frequently going unchallenged in school and college sport, TUC General Secretary Frances O’Grady said:
PFA calls on football to open ‘closed shop’ to a more diverse audience
Players, former players and administrators have called on clubs and governing bodies to smash open football’s “closed shop” and go further to offer opportunities to a more diverse range of people at all levels of the game.