Soccer star, Robbie Rogers, recently came out of his retirement to return to the world of professional soccer making him the first openly gay male athlete to play in a North American league!
The 26-year-old star recently made some personal announcements in February on his blog, a little more than a week after being released from Leeds United. Rogers stated that he wanted to take time off to “time to discover myself away from football.”
While the public was more than sure that Rogers would eventually return to the sport, they were proven right this week when Rogers made his debut playing his first game for Los Angeles Galaxy.
Rogers stated that he had been planning his comeback for a couple of months and the move was inspired by a group of hundreds of LGBT youth in Portugal. “These kids are standing up for themselves and changing the world,” Rogers told USA TODAY, “and I’m 25, I have a platform and a voice to be a role model. How much of a coward was I to not step up to the plate?”
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