Last Updated: March 14, 2024, 13:21 IST
Cavallo popped the query to Leighton Morrell on one knee at an empty Hindmarsh Stadium and posted the pictures on social media late Wednesday.
The 24-yr-outdated grew to become the world’s solely prime-flight overtly homosexual males’s participant in 2021, profitable plaudits all through the sporting world and past for his choice to come out.
Trailblazing Australian homosexual soccer participant Josh Cavallo has proposed to his associate on the pitch at his membership Adelaide United, thanking the staff for offering “a safe space in football”.
The 24-yr-outdated grew to become the world’s solely prime-flight overtly homosexual males’s participant in 2021, profitable plaudits all through the sporting world and past for his choice to come out.
Cavallo popped the query to Leighton Morrell on one knee at an empty Hindmarsh Stadium and posted the pictures on social media late Wednesday.
“Thank you Adelaide United for helping set up this surprise,” stated Cavallo, who has since turn out to be a vocal advocate for homosexual rights.
Starting this yr with my fiancée ❤️Thank you @adelaideunited for serving to arrange this shock.
You have supplied a secure house in soccer, one which I by no means in my desires thought may ever be potential. To share this particular second on the pitch, the place it began ⚽️ pic.twitter.com/9ThwrN2Yol
— Josh Cavallo (@JoshuaCavallo) March 13, 2024
“Your endless support has meant so much to me. You have provided a safe space in football, one that I never in my dreams thought could ever be possible, and encouraged me to live every day of my life authentically.
“It felt right to share this special moment on the pitch, where it all started,” he added.
Despite soccer’s immense recognition worldwide, only some footballers have ever come out, largely after they retired to keep away from the prospect of taunts from the terraces.
Just a handful of prime gamers have revealed they’re homosexual whereas nonetheless taking part in, together with Jake Daniels at English facet Blackpool, some seven months after Cavallo.
Czech worldwide Jakub Jankto -– who performs for Serie A facet Cagliari –- is the best-profile present male homosexual footballer, making the announcement final yr.
(This story has not been edited by News18 employees and is printed from a syndicated information company feed – AFP)
