In 2019, he revealed his sexuality during an interview with the Melbourne newspaper, Herald Sun. At present, he is playing for Hume City.įurthermore, he is the latest active footballer to come out as gay. Other than that, he has been playing for semi-professional football teams. Brennan played in the Australian top-flight division A-League in 2017 for New Castle Jets. Andy BrennanĪndy Brennan is 29 years old professional Australian football player. Now, without any further ado, find out eight brave football players who dared to come as gay publicly. So, many professional league, team, and players are raising their voices to fight back homophobia so gay footballers don’t face any backlash while coming out. In England, 44 league team have an official LGBTQ fan group The major reason behind many gay footballers not revealing their sexuality publicly is fear of homophobia on and off the pitch.Īlthough LGBTQ is barely an issue in women’s football whereas males are afraid of being targeted by others.Īmal Fashanu, a niece of late Justin Fashanu, said she knew some of the gay football players in the premier league, but they fear coming out as gay. There are only two or three openly gay footballers in the world.

So, footballers shouldn’t be insulted or discriminated against because of their sexuality.Įven though it has already been three decades since Justin Fashnou first publicly came out as gay.