Yungblud has hit out on the “deeply entrenched situation with homophobia in soccer” after two Spanish footballers joked about being homosexual.
Yesterday (October 9) retired Spain and Actual Madrid goalkeeper Iker Casillas took to Twitter to say “I hope you respect me: I’m homosexual” whereas his former teammate Carles Puyol quickly replied saying “it’s time to inform our story, Iker” alongside a coronary heart emoji.
A couple of hours later, each tweets had been deleted with Casillas claiming his account had been hacked. “Apologies to all my followers. And naturally, extra apologies to the LGBT group.”
Cuenta hackeada. Por suerte todo en orden. Disculpas a todos mis followers. Y por supuesto, más disculpas a la comunidad LGTB. 🙏
— Iker Casillas (@IkerCasillas) October 9, 2022
Puyol in the meantime admitted he had “made a mistake. Sorry for a careless joke with no unhealthy intentions and completely misplaced. I perceive that it could have damage sensitivities. All my respect and assist for the LGTBIQA+ group”.
Following the Tweets, Yungblud has hit out at each gamers. Taking to Twitter he wrote: “It takes an immense quantity of braveness to come back out no matter your career. Nonetheless there’s a deeply entrenched situation with homophobia in soccer and to have two icons of the sport deal with it like a schoolyard joke is simply disappointing,” he mentioned earlier than including “do higher”.
it takes an immense quantity of braveness to come back out no matter your career. nevertheless there’s a deeply entrenched situation with homophobia in soccer and to have two icons of the sport deal with it like a schoolyard joke is simply disappointing. do higher.
— YUNGBLUD (@yungblud) October 9, 2022
Casillas and Puyol have additionally been closely criticised by different footballers
@IkerCasillas and @Carles5puyol joking and making enjoyable out of popping out in soccer is disappointing. It’s a troublesome journey that any LGBTQ+ ppl need to undergo. To see my function fashions and legends of the sport make enjoyable out of popping out and my group is past disrespectful pic.twitter.com/Yp88aQyyTV
— Josh Cavallo (@JoshuaCavallo) October 9, 2022
Iker Casillas and Carles Puyol’s tweets had been pathetic and all they’ve achieved is to embolden the homophobic attitudes which can be already rife inside soccer and inside soccer fandom. Sluggish progress is being made, issues like this merely make it even slower.
— Jonny Sharples (@JonnyGabriel) October 9, 2022
In the meantime, Yungblud has additionally introduced particulars of his upcoming brief movie Mars, primarily based on the ‘Bizarre!’ monitor of the identical title.
“This all got here from the concept we may facilitate bringing characters to life by assembling a workforce of solid and crew that totally symbolize the communities who’s tales we needed to inform,” mentioned Yungblud.
“Giving folks a platform to inform their tales with fact and integrity means a lot to me and I really feel that’s what we’ve achieved with this movie,” he continued.
The movie, which stars Heartstopper‘s Yasmin Finney as lead character Charlie Acaster, is ready within the north of England and is described as a “frank and humorous brief movie of teenage self-discovery”.
