Jakub Jankto: “I'm gay and I don't want to hide anymore”

Jakub Jankto: “I'm gay and I don't want to hide anymore”
Jakub Jankto's message to the world of football. PHOTO: @jakubjanktojr

Jakub Jankto, international footballer for the Czech Republic and 27 years, has taken one of the most important steps in the history of modern football. The player Getafe, now on loan at Sparta of Prague, He has recorded a video where he has announced his homosexuality. “I'm gay and I don't want to hide anymore”.

The brave step of Jakub Jankto

"As everyone, I have strengths, I have weaknesses, I have a family, I have friends, I have a job where I have done the best I could for years, seriously, professionalism and passion. like everyone else, I also want to live my life in freedom. Without fears, unprejudiced, without violence, but with love. I am homosexual and I don't want to hide anymore" Jankto claimed in a recorded message on his Twitter social network, Created expressly today for it.

Messages of support have not taken long to reach

Both his current clubs, Sparta Prague as Getafe, club to which your rights belong, have expressed their full support for their footballer's decision to make his sexual condition public. "No more comments. No more questions. You have our support. Live your life, Jacob.”, expressed the Czech club in its social networks. Getafe, for his part has stated: "Our utmost respect and unconditional support to our footballer Jakub Jankto".

In addition, a multitude of LaLiga and European clubs as well as organizations such as FIFA or the League itself, have sent their messages of support for the brave decision of the young footballer. Something that other footballers like justin Fashanu in 1990. But they were other times, and the story of the British did not end well.

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