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這是我剛才看到的新聞，不知道有沒有Lag

讓我想到之前直播過的那部"踢出我天地"

新聞來源：http://goo.gl/1mS0x

他的名字是Robbie Rogers

找圖之後很帥：http://goo.gl/kz1Pj

可是當你看過這段影片之後，你會發現他是超級天菜：http://youtu.be/wgoKXCt2bPk

天啊…世界上真的有這麼優秀的人就對了…

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新聞原文：

U.S. Soccer Player Opens Up About Being Gay

It was around 11 a.m. Friday when David Testo’s cellphone began to vibrate
constantly. There were missed calls. Voice mail messages. E-mails.


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Testo, a former professional soccer player, announced he was gay in 2011
shortly after his playing career ended. And as he paged through his messages
from friends and family members, he quickly learned the news that stunned
much of the global soccer community: Robbie Rogers, a former midfielder for
the United States national team who most recently played in England, had
revealed in a blog post that he was gay, too.

Testo’s first thought, he said, was pride. But then he wondered if Rogers,
who is 25, would do what Testo, and many others, chose not to: become one of
the rare openly gay male athletes to actively participate in a high-profile
professional team sport.

“Deep down, that’s what I was hoping for,” Testo said. “It’s what we’re
all waiting for.”

Megan Rapinoe, the United States women’s team star, came out before last
summer’s Olympics, but at this point it does not appear Rogers will follow
her example on the male side. In his letter, which he published on his
personal Web site, Rogers wrote he was leaving the sport to “discover myself
away from football.”

Rogers had most recently been playing for Stevenage, a third-division English
team, after being loaned away by second-division Leeds United. He did not
specify when — or if — he might return, instead focusing on his personal
issues.

Throughout his life, he wrote, he has “been afraid, afraid to show whom I
really was because of fear.”

“Fear that judgment and rejection would hold me back from my dreams and
aspirations,” he wrote. “Fear that my loved ones would be farthest from me
if they knew my secret. Fear that my secret would get in the way of my dreams.
”

Asked to elaborate, Rogers did not respond to an e-mail request for an
interview. One of Rogers’s sisters, Alicia Nunn, wrote in an electronic
message that “at this moment we not ready to make a comment.” His younger
brother, Timothy, said in a brief telephone interview that “I know we are
all very proud of Robbie and everything he has done.”

Rogers was similarly embraced throughout the soccer community. Numerous
players took to social media to support him, including Eddie Pope, a former
United States defender, who wrote on Twitter, “Brave men like you will make
it so that one day there is no need for an announcement.”

Benny Feilhaber, who played with Rogers on the 2008 United States Olympic
team, wrote to Rogers on Twitter that he was “proud to call you my friend.”

Testo, who finished his career with the Montreal Impact, then a
second-division team, came out in a television interview two years ago and
said he vividly recalled the emotions that came with finally revealing a
secret that could, at times, feel all-consuming.

“I went out with friends and got drunk that night because it was such a
relief,” he said, laughing. “I’m sure Robbie will have a good time in
London. It’s just such a good feeling.”

The 31-year-old Testo remains active as an advocate for the L.G.B.T.
community, and said he planned to reach out to Rogers and hopes to work with
him in the future. “I hope he’ll consider playing again — he’s young
enough and good enough. But he has impacted plenty of people even if he doesn
’t.”

The emotional toll of living the “double life,” as Testo called it, may
have drained Rogers’s desire to play. Rogers wrote that “secrets can cause
so much internal damage,” adding: “People love to preach about honesty, how
honesty is so plain and simple. Try explaining to your loved ones after 25
years you are gay. Try convincing yourself that your creator has the most
wonderful purpose for you even though you were taught differently.”

To be sure, some gay male athletes — like the soccer player Justin Fashanu,
the cricket player Steven Davies and the rugby star Gareth Thomas — have
acknowledged they were gay during their playing careers. But they remain far
more the exception than the rule.

Rogers played in Major League Soccer for five seasons and made 18 appearances
for the United States, scoring the first goal of Coach Jurgen Klinsmann’s
tenure in 2011. If Rogers is indeed finished playing soccer — at present he
is still in London and, according to his Twitter feed, has done some recent
work with the British version of the magazine Men’s Health — then it will
be disappointing because of the circumstances, said Jim Buzinksi, a founder
of OutSports.com.

If Rogers returns to the game, he almost surely would have “a target on his
back,” Testo said, noting that soccer — like society at large, he added —
has made progress, but is far from universal acceptance of homosexuality.
Buzinksi agreed and said it was “absolutely depressing” that someone might
feel pushed away from a sport he loves.

“It just shows that sports is the final closet in society,” Buzinksi said.
“We’ve made huge strides in terms of support of gay athletes, and
homophobia is no longer cool in sports. But the closet is very much in
existence.”

A version of this article appeared in print on February 16, 2013, on page D1
of the New York edition with the headline: Former Member of U.S. Soccer Team
Reveals He Is Gay.


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