“Don’t waste your life hating others for something you cannot change. Preach Love!” - Out soccer player @robbierogers twitter.com/NOH8Campaign/s…
— NOH8 Campaign (@NOH8Campaign) May 11, 2013
Former Columbus Crew and United States midfielder Robbie Rogers has come out as gay and announced his retirement effective immediately.
The 25-year-old American, who played for Leeds United and left League One side Stevenage last month, wrote on his blog that he had been afraid of revealing his sexuality - but that he is now leaving football.
Check out this well-thought of commercial from the Dutch federation promoting the acceptance of gay footballers, by also helping combat homophobia from the beautiful game. We couldn’t have said the message better ourselves.
Here’s the official mission statement from KNVB.
Big ups Dutch football!
