Jakub Jankto, a 27-year-old footballer born in the Czech Republic whose pass belongs to Getafe but is on loan to Sparta Prague, announced his homosexuality on Monday in a video in which he assured that “he no longer wants to hide.” The news unleashed countless messages of support from both colleagues, clubs and the world of sport in general. About this he spoke Jorge Valdano.
“I take my hat off to this statement and I am ashamed of football. That it is one of the first cases in 2023 is to be ashamed”said the world champion in 1978 in the program El Tercer Tiempo, of Movistar Plus +, where he took the opportunity to talk about the “shame” of soccer.
“Women have given us a real lesson. They came to football much more unprejudiced than us and exercised their freedom from day one. That this has to be, these days, an act of courage, seems to me demeaning for football It would have to embarrass all of us who are in football”closed the Argentine, who is currently developing as a sports commentator, in a good comparison with the female branch of the sport.
Jakub Jankto, of the Czech Republic National Team, whitewashed that he is homosexual
Jakub Jankto, a 27-year-old footballer who plays for Sparta Prague and the Czech Republic National Team, declared his homosexuality on social media today, becoming one of the first footballers to do so publicly. “I’m gay, and I don’t want to hide any longer,” the midfielder whose pass belongs to Getafe of Spain assured on his social networks.
