Robbie Rogers was the second male soccer player in Britain to come out as gay, the first being the first black footballer to command a transfer fee of how much?
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Robbie Rogers Robert Hampton "Robbie" Rogers III (born May 12, 1987) is an American professional soccer player who plays for LA Galaxy in Major League Soccer. He plays as a winger and as a left back. Rogers has also represented the United States men's national soccer team. In February 2013, Rogers came out as gay, becoming the second male soccer player in Britain to do so after Justin Fashanu in 1990. On May 26, 2013, he became the first openly gay man to compete in a top North American professional sports league when he played his first match for the Galaxy.
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Justin Fashanu Justinus Soni "Justin" Fashanu ( ; 19 February 1961 – 2 May 1998) was an English footballer who played for a variety of clubs between 1978 and 1997. He was known by his early clubs to be gay, and came out to the press later in his career, becoming the first professional footballer to be openly gay. He was also the first black footballer to command a £1million transfer fee, with his transfer from Norwich City to Nottingham Forest in 1981, but had little success as a player afterwards, although he continued to play at senior level until 1994.
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Danny Gay (footballer) Daniel Karl Gay (born 5 August 1982) is an English footballer who last played for Needham Market. He made eleven appearances in Football League Two for Southend United between 2001 and 2003.
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Johnny Price John "Johnny" Price (25 October 1943 – 1995) was an English professional footballer who played as a winger.
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Alex Ingram Alex Ingram (born 2 January 1945) is a former professional footballer, who spent most of his career at Ayr United and since 2008 has been the vice chairman of Ayr United. Ingram owed his nickname 'Dixie' to a character from the White Heather Club. In 1970, Ingram joined English side, Nottingham Forest for a fee of £40,000 after only 28 League games and 3 goals, he rejoined Ayr United for £15,000. Ingram is the founder of "Ingram Motor Group", which specialises in the sales of Volkswagen, Škoda and Audi. Ingram is Ayr United's fourth all-time top-scorer, behind Peter Price (213), Sam McMillan (127) and Terry McGibbons (125) on 117 goals in all competitions. He has also maintained a close friendship with Manchester United manager, Sir Alex Ferguson, from his playing days at Somerset Park. In 2008, Alex Ingram was inducted into the Ayr United Hall of Fame.
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Duncan Ferguson Duncan Cowan Ferguson (born 27 December 1971) is Scottish football player and coach. He began his professional career at Dundee United in 1990. He moved to Rangers in 1993 for a then British transfer record of £4 million. He spent the remainder of his career in England with two spells at Everton (1994 to 1998 and 2000 to 2006) and Newcastle United between 1998 and 2000. Ferguson retired from football in 2006.
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Neil Cox (footballer) Neil James Cox (born 8 October 1971) is an English former professional footballer and manager. A defender capable of playing at centre or right-back, he made over 500 appearances in the Football League during his career and was capped at Under-21 level by England. He began his career at Scunthorpe United as a youth player and was eventually offered a professional contract by the club, breaking into the first-team soon after. In 1991, Cox joined First Division side Aston Villa for a fee of £400,000, going on to make over 50 appearances for the side in all competitions, including playing in the club's victory over Manchester United in the 1994 Football League Cup Final, but struggled to establish himself in the first-team.
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Robbie Johnson Robert Nicholas "Robbie" Johnson (born 30 March 1962) is an English retired professional football left back who appeared in the Football League for Brentford.
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Webster ruling The Webster ruling is a test case in association football law involving Andy Webster, a defender formerly with Heart of Midlothian football club in Edinburgh, Scotland. In September 2006 he became the first player to exploit the updated transfer regulations of FIFA, football's governing body, which stipulated that players are able to unilaterally walk away from a contract after a fixed period, regardless of the duration of the contract itself. Although the long-term effects of the decision remain unclear, it has been compared to the landmark Bosman ruling of 1995 in its potential significance.
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Kadell Daniel Kadell Ebony Daniel (born 3 June 1994) is a Guyanese professional footballer who plays as a midfielder for Dover Athletic.
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Gay Games The Gay Games is the world's largest sporting and cultural event specifically for lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender (LGBT) athletes, artists and musicians, founded by Tom Waddell, Rikki Streicher, and others. The 1994 Gay Games, held in New York City to coincide with the 25th anniversary of the Stonewall Riots, the modern start of the LGBT movement, "overtook the Olympics in size" with 10,864 athletes compared to 9,356 at the 1992 Barcelona Olympics and 10,318 at the 1996 Atlanta Olympics.
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Jimmy Guthrie (footballer) Jimmy Guthrie was born James Wallace Taylor Guthrie in Luncarty, Perthshire, Scotland on 6 June 1912. He played for Luncarty City Boys, Perth Thistle F.C. and Scone Thistle before joining Dundee for the 1932/33 season. In August 1937 he was transferred to Portsmouth of the English First Division for a fee of £4,000.
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Ian Olney Ian Olney (born 17 December 1969) is a former footballer who played as a forward. He started his career at Aston Villa in 1988, for whom he made 88 league appearances, scoring 16 goals, and 4 years later was sold to Oldham Athletic for £750,000, at that time Oldham's transfer record. He was part of the team that dramatically survived relegation from the Premier League on the final day of the season, after defeating Southampton 4-3. He later played for Kidderminster Harriers and Forest Green Rovers.
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Abu Ogogo Abumere Tafadzwa "Abu" Ogogo (born 3 November 1989) is an English professional footballer who plays as a midfielder for League One club Shrewsbury Town.
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Rod Adams Rodney Leslie Adams (born 15 September 1945 in Bath, Somerset) is an English former professional footballer who played in the Football League, as a Winger. His early football was played for Foxhill Rangers based at Foxhill, Bath where he lived. He joined Bournemouth from non-league Frome Town for a transfer fee of £500. Whilst at Weymouth off the field he was an accounts clerk for Devenish Brewery. Now resident in Vancouver, Canada. His father Les was a non-league footballer in Bath.
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Peggy Lokando Mbive "Peggy" Lokando (born 18 September 1989) is an English-born Congolese footballer who plays for Conference South club Billericay Town.
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Chris Price Christopher James "Chris" Price (born 30 March 1960) is an English former footballer who made 561 appearances in the Football League and Premier League, playing for Hereford United, Aston Villa, Blackburn Rovers and Portsmouth. He played as a right-back.
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Mark Gardiner (video gamer) Mark Gardiner (born 2 September 1983) is a Scottish semi-professional video gamer. On 15 March 2008, Gardiner won the largest single prize in United Kingdom video gaming history at that time. Playing "Pro Evolution Soccer" (PES), he won £50,000 inside Wembley Stadium, in the Play.com-sponsored PES Rankings tournament. He also finished second at the European "Pro Evolution Soccer 6" Championships in Seville, Spain on 11 October 2007, and won the UK Championships held in London on 2 September 2007. He uses the nickname "Marko9Gardinic" during video game competitions.
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Steve McManaman Steven "Steve" McManaman (born 11 February 1972) is an English former footballer who played as a midfielder, winger and playmaker for Liverpool, Real Madrid and Manchester City. McManaman is the most decorated English footballer to have played for a club abroad, with the UEFA website stating that "of all England's footballing exports in the modern era, none was as successful as McManaman". He is currently a co-commentator on BT Sport football coverage.
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David Testo David Testo (born August 7, 1981, in Winston-Salem, North Carolina) is an American retired soccer player who, after his playing career ended in 2011, became the first male American professional player of that sport to come out as gay. Testo played professionally from 2003 to 2011, including two years in Major League Soccer with the Columbus Crew from 2004 to 2005. He began his career with the second division side Richmond Kickers, and also played for the Vancouver Whitecaps and Montreal Impact (also second division teams at the time), before he was released by the Impact in 2011. He played collegiately for South Carolina and North Carolina.
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Tony Carr Anthony Carr MBE (born 5 September 1950) is an English sports coach and former Director of Youth Development at the West Ham United football club's youth academy and is recognised as one of the most influential figures in English football. A former graduate of the academy himself, whose footballing career was cut short by injury, he joined the club's staff as a youth coach in 1973. Since then in his tenure as director, as of 2010, Carr is credited with producing talent which has earned an estimated £80 million in transfer fees for the club, while the 23-man England squad for the 2010 FIFA World Cup contained no less than seven players trained by Carr – Rio Ferdinand, Frank Lampard, Joe Cole, Michael Carrick, Jermain Defoe, Glen Johnson and John Terry.
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Robbie Gibbons Robert James Gibbons (born 8 October 1991) is an Irish professional footballer.