Jakub Jankto

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'I no longer want to hide' – Czech international Jakub Jankto ... (Morning Star Online)

CZECH REPUBLIC international Jakub Jankto has become the highest profile current male footballer to announce he is gay. Jankto, who plays for Sparta Prague ...

With a regular donation to our monthly Fighting Fund, we can continue to thumb our noses at the fat cats and tell truth to power. The Morning Star is unique, as a lone socialist voice in a sea of corporate media. The purpose of this video is to encourage others.” The Professional Footballers’ Association said: “Well said, Jakub. I’m homosexual and I no longer want to hide myself.” Like everybody else, I have my strengths, I have my weaknesses.

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Czech international Jakub Jankto comes out as gay (The Athletic)

The Czech Republic international Jakub Jankto has come out as gay. In a video the 27-year-old Sparta Prague midfielder said he is “homosexual and I no ...

I have a job which I have been doing it as best as I can for years with seriousness, professionalism and passion. No more questions.“You have our support. “I am Jakub Jankto and like everybody else I have my strengths and I have my weaknesses,” he said in a video released on Twitter.

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Czech footballer Jakub Jankto becomes first active international ... (CNN)

Czech football star Jakub Jankto has become the first active international men's player to announce he is gay.

[Jake Daniels](http://www.cnn.com/2022/05/17/football/jake-daniels-blackpool-spt-int/index.html), an 18-year-old striker for Blackpool in England’s second tier, came out in May 2022. You’re a true inspiration, and European football is with you!” UEFA, European football’s governing body, wrote: “Well done, Jakub. Like everybody else, I also want to live my life in freedom without fears, without prejudice, without violence, but with love. “No further comments. No more questions.

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Czech soccer player Jakub Jankto comes out as gay (Sportsnet.ca)

Czech Republic midfielder Jakub Jankto posted a video on social media on Monday saying he is gay, making him one of the most high-profile male soccer ...

Football is for everyone." The 27-year-old Jankto is playing for Sparta Prague this season on loan from Spanish club Getafe. [posted a video on Twitter](https://twitter.com/jakubjanktojr/status/1625117590182928384) saying: “I'm homosexual.

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Czech Republic's Jakub Jankto coming out 'will inspire people in the ... (The Guardian)

Jon Holmes, an LGBT+ advocate, said the message by the Sparta Prague midfielder 'has broken the mould he created'

“I think it says a lot about the state of your industry and the environments people have created if you have people who feel confident and comfortable enough to share their truth. But there’s lots of different aspects to this, including how those in the media talk about this topic. Holmes is keen to stress however, that expecting the actions of individual players to change an entrenched culture is not helpful and unlikely to succeed. Whether or not some people are able to be themselves in the dressing-room space we don’t know, but obviously in the public space they obviously haven’t yet felt confident enough to share that. Jankto is a Czech international footballer who has played in La Liga and Serie A and is in the peak years of his career. “[Jankto’s statement] is quite significant in the fact he’s 27 years old, he’s already built an image of himself in the mind of the public, in the mind of fans,” Holmes says.

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