LONDON -- English soccer player Jake Daniels announced he is gay on Monday in a trailblazing moment for the European men’s game. [ MORE: What’s to play for in the Premier League in the final week? ] ...

Home Sports Soccer Features Jake Daniels comes out as gay: reactions to a landmark moment for British football Blackpool forward, 17, is the UK’s only openly gay male professional footballer ...

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Jake Daniels, a 17-year-old forward for Blackpool FC in England’s second tier, publicly came out as gay Monday in a statement released by the club.

Daniels instantly became the only player in the English football leagues to come out as gay. He was also the first to do so since the late Justin Fashanu over 30 years ago.

It shouldn’t matter. But it does. When 17-year-old Jake Daniels publicly came out as a gay on Monday, phones pinged as the UK’s media raced to push out news alerts. This is a big story.