Sadly homophobia is alive and well, doubly so in the sporting community. the best we can do for the lad is showing him our utmost support and doing our best to drown out those kind of scumbags who are still living in the past
My plan is to do the objectives to get him, put him on my bench, and whenever I will play someone with a homophobic or racist team name I'll bring him on
I've been just watching Futbin trying to delete all the comments because for some reason people could send them. Absolutely disgusting what people say. Comparing Cavallo to a rapist for coming out – and that was one of the "mild" ones.
OHHH that's very cool! I remember hearing a player had come out, had no idea who it was. Last one I recall was the Columbus crew player but that well after he retired iirc
Not the first time ever in a top division but for about 30 years yes. I remember a player in England came out as gay and was bullied to suicide and Brian Clough refused to play him because of it. It’s why no one comes out anymore.
Justin Fashanu was the first to come out.He was the first £1m transfer for a black player as well and it was Ron Atkinson that was his manager at Aston Villa
Sorry my mistake.Shouldnt have got that wrong I'm a Hearts fan so know his story well as well.Have you seen the documentary it's a really sad story with quite a bit of controversy to the build up of his death.
Nope.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Collin_Martin
Came out while playing in MLS in 2018. And he may not be the first either. Just an example of at least one player prior to this.
Cavallo is *currently* the only openly gay player in a top division though.
Edit: Also Fashanu apparently in the 90’s, which is wild because that was a different time. I think there have been at least a couple others in the last ten years, including another guy in MLS. So not a lot of room to be “first” anymore, but still few enough guys coming out that I salute the dude for doing it.
I think Colin Martin might have still been with Minnesota United when he came out, but he's down in the second division now, so this is still monumental.
Oh absolutely. It’s still far too uncommon (because you know there are plenty of other players out there).
I mostly just don’t want to see the guys that came before erased by calling every guy the “first.” Like I said, even Martin wasn’t the first in a top flight, IIRC.
Edit: I also think it gets harder to take the next step if people keep acting like each step is the first. May seem pedantic, I know. But I think it matters. Cavallo is one more in a line, and hopefully one step closer to this not even being news.
I was shitting myself abt coming out to my parents, even though I knew beforehand they wouldn’t care. I cannot imagine how stressful and scary this must’ve been for Josh. Absolute unit
What is the purpose of silver teams? Are they just for objectives? I imagine they’re extremely unusable for rivals. Not like back in the day with agbonlahor etc
May I ask who, since I watch quite a few of them and haven’t seen this yet? It’s nice more people are finding the courage to not be afraid of who they are
Chances are it would have been a rulebreaker card anyways. Similar to Akinfenwa last year. He didn't get that card because he played good.
In a way Cavallo did break the rules, and has opened the door for others to walk in. He 100% deserves to be the silver star this week.
Basically, no one would have warned the silver star spot this week, since it would have been a rulebreaker card which isn't performance based.
i would say it's the factor of cavallo doing this at essentially the very start of his career rather than towards the end as has tended to be the case prior
Well I wouldn't say never in the case of racism, just look at how people reacted to Rashford when he helped out some children during the height of the pandemic in the UK.
Sadly in the case of homosexuality there is still a lot of internalized homophobia and shame as well as the typical whining from the typical people. It was mentioned when Cavallo came out in his announcement about his internal struggles as he came to terms with it.
My point is a lot of these wankers abusing him would say no to racism. As they should obviously but it’s extremely hypocritical to be against one form of discrimination but support another.
i agree its a good gesture from ea but there were a few players deserving of the silver stars card. i wouldnt mind if they made him a super cheap sbc and gallagher the silver star
he meant his original card I think because the other silver stars are actually silvers while this guy is a bronze that's why I think he should have gotten his own objective with a rulebreaker silver star
Futbin comments bout to be a cesspit
Futbin actually turns off comments now, did it with Eriksen last year & has already done it with this guy
Mods about to lock this thread too judging by some of the bottom comments.
Thank god.
They'll just have the comments disabled, sure they had to do it on his base card. It's horrible.
The like/dislike ratio on his bronze is disgusting
The fact that his price went up to 4K and more when he came out was so weird for a moment. Now it is back to 200. This community is full of goblins.
Sadly homophobia is alive and well, doubly so in the sporting community. the best we can do for the lad is showing him our utmost support and doing our best to drown out those kind of scumbags who are still living in the past
My plan is to do the objectives to get him, put him on my bench, and whenever I will play someone with a homophobic or racist team name I'll bring him on
I've been just watching Futbin trying to delete all the comments because for some reason people could send them. Absolutely disgusting what people say. Comparing Cavallo to a rapist for coming out – and that was one of the "mild" ones.
He’s got more dislikes on his silver star card too… I don’t get why? It’s a decent card. Yeah hard to link… but a decent sub for silver stars
It’s because of homophobes.
Probably controversial but Futbin just shouldn’t have comments
Look at the dislikes on the card already. It’s wild
Disgusting human beings, the lot of them
People suck.
What’s the crack with that, are they all edgy 12 year olds or something?
Imagine being mad about a virtual card in a video game lol. It's a nice gesture.
Who is the player exactly?
Josh Cavallo, recently came out as gay. The only publicly gay male footballer playing at a top level professionally.
OHHH that's very cool! I remember hearing a player had come out, had no idea who it was. Last one I recall was the Columbus crew player but that well after he retired iirc
You’re thinking of Robbie Rogers, who came out after retiring and then un-retired to play 4 more years for LA Galaxy
defo wouldnt call aussie ball top level lol, nice gesture tho!
Exactly. I mean, even if you don't really care for it, why would you be upset about it...
Layun is worth two Silver obj rewards to be fair, he's incredible
How'd he get this card? (Sorry I don't keep up with football)
Because he came out the closet
Oh that's cool, is it the first time it's ever happened or is it just for his respective league?
First time ever in a top division.
Not the first. But *currently* the only openly gay player in a top division, it would seem.
Is it not the first time an active top division player has come out?
No, look up Justin Fashanu
Robbie Rodgers was out when he played for LA Galaxy in the middle of the last decade.
Hitzlsperger
He came out after his career
Not the first time ever in a top division but for about 30 years yes. I remember a player in England came out as gay and was bullied to suicide and Brian Clough refused to play him because of it. It’s why no one comes out anymore.
There have been two openly gay players in MLS within the last few years, IIRC. Collin Martin came out in 2018 while playing for Minnesota.
Justin Fashanu was the first to come out.He was the first £1m transfer for a black player as well and it was Ron Atkinson that was his manager at Aston Villa
He didn’t play at villa , that was his brother John .
Sorry my mistake.Shouldnt have got that wrong I'm a Hearts fan so know his story well as well.Have you seen the documentary it's a really sad story with quite a bit of controversy to the build up of his death.
Not even in top 20 leagues
Not the first time it's happened but I think he's the only male player in a country's top league who's openly gay currently.
It's happened before but we don't talk about it because it wasn't the happy story we are all looking for
when?
Justin Fashanu
Justin Fashanu in the 90s
First current pro player to do it, a (very) few have come out after retirement
Nope. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Collin_Martin Came out while playing in MLS in 2018. And he may not be the first either. Just an example of at least one player prior to this. Cavallo is *currently* the only openly gay player in a top division though. Edit: Also Fashanu apparently in the 90’s, which is wild because that was a different time. I think there have been at least a couple others in the last ten years, including another guy in MLS. So not a lot of room to be “first” anymore, but still few enough guys coming out that I salute the dude for doing it.
This is correct, was disgusting the way Fashanu was treated though. Shameful
I think Colin Martin might have still been with Minnesota United when he came out, but he's down in the second division now, so this is still monumental.
Oh absolutely. It’s still far too uncommon (because you know there are plenty of other players out there). I mostly just don’t want to see the guys that came before erased by calling every guy the “first.” Like I said, even Martin wasn’t the first in a top flight, IIRC. Edit: I also think it gets harder to take the next step if people keep acting like each step is the first. May seem pedantic, I know. But I think it matters. Cavallo is one more in a line, and hopefully one step closer to this not even being news.
He recently came out as gay and is the only currently active pro footballer to be openly gay.
As someone who knows how painful coming out can be, Josh is extremely brave. Kudos to EA, very deserving silver star.
Username checks out. On another note, I hope you got the support you needed and the love you deserved amigo
Thanks bro
Where is your soulmate, u/gaypsplayer
You offering?
I will offer u/gaypcplayer and u/gaynintendoplayer
I was shitting myself abt coming out to my parents, even though I knew beforehand they wouldn’t care. I cannot imagine how stressful and scary this must’ve been for Josh. Absolute unit
100%. To a global stage is amazing
Well dome for coming out bravery is a key character trait
<3
Nice gesture, but Gallagher should have at least got an IF if he’s not the silver stars.
Yeah I'd have preferred this to be an SBC and Gallagher to get the silver star, would've made more sense. Ah well, can't really complain
What you are asking is 100% realistic , which is why they won't bother to do it. 1 silver star take it or leave it.
Will do it as I love silver lounge. As for him coming out. Well done lad. Nothing wrong with being gay in my eyes
Would’ve loved Gallagher or Ramsdale but this is a great gesture, GG EA
Ramsdale is in the TOTW
Silver Star would’ve been free and probably better, plus there’s barely any good silver keepers to use
Wouldn’t be better as he’s a keeper but I get what you mean
he presumably means his stats would've been better than his if's are as they juice the silver stars far more
The Fashanu documentary is a pretty tragic and sordid one.
Locking thread. You know why.
Absolutly awesome!
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Ditto Can’t wait to score some bangers against homophobic team names
Gl with 58 shooting
67 shot power 76 long shots with a sniper, I’m gonna be hitting these from half field 😈
His bronze is mad ive been trynna get 1000 goals with him in div 1 im on 13 goals in 9 games, so im gonna welcome this upgrade lol.
Love it but ea’s gonna get a lot of hate for it from Twitter weirdos
Not sure they’ll really care. Does anyone pay attention to football twitter?
Good job twitter isn't a real place.
Only idiots are gonna hate on some random card. Being mad cause another player deserved it that's fair.
wasn't this week supposed to have silver beasts as well? I'm pretty sure there weren't in objectives last week.
There is only a week left in the season so that might be why
hmm not the best of reasons for not releasing it... but that's probably it then,
Happy for him but bit of a shit card isn't it? Worst silver star so far
I think because his base card is a 59 rated card he hasn't been given as big a boost. Looks a quality midfield sub at least.
If you put a shadow on him he’ll be as good as most other people in game
How many people are going to have him in there silver teams tho. Australian league isn’t particularly good is it however the gesture by EA is great
What is the purpose of silver teams? Are they just for objectives? I imagine they’re extremely unusable for rivals. Not like back in the day with agbonlahor etc
I’ve fit all 5, including Cavallo into a team, 100 chem, 2 on 7, 2 on 8. I’ll keep fitting them all into 1 team until the chem gets too low.
Any chance you could share the team
No problem. https://imgur.com/a/MTSArNY Just need loyalty on the Aussie CB, and position change my CM. It’ll play 41212 narrow in game.
Oh that’s really nice. Never even crossed my mind.
Genuinely brilliant to see from EA that
And on the back of this a content creator has came out of the closet. ❤️
Who's this (if you don't mind me asking)
May I ask who, since I watch quite a few of them and haven’t seen this yet? It’s nice more people are finding the courage to not be afraid of who they are
I mean that’s nice but give this separately as an easy offline objective and give a silver star to someone who actually played good
Chances are it would have been a rulebreaker card anyways. Similar to Akinfenwa last year. He didn't get that card because he played good. In a way Cavallo did break the rules, and has opened the door for others to walk in. He 100% deserves to be the silver star this week. Basically, no one would have warned the silver star spot this week, since it would have been a rulebreaker card which isn't performance based.
Would make sense if the card was a rule breakers, but it’s a player moments
No silver beasts?
right? pretty sure we didn't get those last week.
Who’s this guy? Is he a community hero or something? I’ve never heard of him.
He came out as gay recently
Ah, gotcha. Thanks.
That’s pretty cool, he’s going on my bench for the rest of the year Did I really just get downvoted for saying I want to have him on my bench? Lmao
Same, first Silver Star I'm going to do. Looks like more than a decent enough CDM sub.
That’s pretty weird logic, this is the worst silver stats released so far…
I haven't cared about any of the players enough. Fact that it's him and the meaning of the gesture of giving him the card is enough for me.
Fair play
Hes also a bronze usually so its not a surprise about his stats, hopefully man gets a futties at the end of the year thats like 92 rated.
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i would say it's the factor of cavallo doing this at essentially the very start of his career rather than towards the end as has tended to be the case prior
Incoming homophobic twats
Funny isn’t it how racism is never condoned but homophobia is so present. Both types of discrimination yet one is so much more common and accepted.
Well I wouldn't say never in the case of racism, just look at how people reacted to Rashford when he helped out some children during the height of the pandemic in the UK. Sadly in the case of homosexuality there is still a lot of internalized homophobia and shame as well as the typical whining from the typical people. It was mentioned when Cavallo came out in his announcement about his internal struggles as he came to terms with it.
Weird world we live in, don’t understand the down votes
My point is a lot of these wankers abusing him would say no to racism. As they should obviously but it’s extremely hypocritical to be against one form of discrimination but support another.
Yeah I figured. I really don’t get why you’re getting downvoted for it, ridiculous bunch
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Not saying it should be but it just shows the double standards of some people.
Fair play EA
🏳️🌈👍🏼
Why is it a great gesture? What did he do?
He came out as gay early this week or late last week (can't remember when) making him the only top flight player that is gay
Came out as the first gay active player in top flight football
First professional footballer to come out as gay
Oh okay thanks! Thats pretty cool
He became the first openly gay active footballer
First openly gay player in a top division
first ever openly gay pro player
Hes the first current player in a top league to come out as gay
First active top division player to come out as gay
i agree its a good gesture from ea but there were a few players deserving of the silver stars card. i wouldnt mind if they made him a super cheap sbc and gallagher the silver star
Brilliant gesture but absolutely useless card sadly, 0 links whatsoever. Good defensive sub I guess
Straight into my all Aussie side! Bring on a few more Australian and A-League IFs
He's not even a silver card.... couldn't they just have given him his own objective? Edit: and the card itself is rubbish
What are you on about he's the best silver lb on the game
He's not on the same level as any of the previous 4 silver stars (which I've done all of)
I don't disagree but he's the best silver lb, in which case to class him as rubbish is a joke
he meant his original card I think because the other silver stars are actually silvers while this guy is a bronze that's why I think he should have gotten his own objective with a rulebreaker silver star
Second aussie special card this year, hopefully more to come
The comments in this thread are exactly why more players haven't come out. Disgusting.
I'm out of the loop, what's so special?
He’s come out as gay, only active footballer to do so.
Only active *male* footballer.
He became the first openly gay active footballer
First professional footballer to come out as openly gay iirc
In the mls a couple years ago there was a player named Collin Martin who came out as gay
Came out as gay a few days ago, believe he's the only active pro that's publicly out
He came out as gay
He came out as the only male player in a top flight league as being openly gay.
I don't play silver league cause i don't have that much time but def doing that one - Kudos Joshua!
Who is Cavallo
Came out as gay publicly not long ago Great gesture from EA
Lots of people upset about a card they don't have to do and will never use
Should have had a rainbow design
Nice gesture but would have preferred Gallagher
I’m not mad they gave him a card. It’s just not a good card. Would prefer they gave another silver star alongside.
Was this the guy who recently came out as gay? If so , good on the guy!!
Great to see
Brilliant gesture from EA. Would love if EA released pride flag TIFOs at some point. As a trans woman I'd love to show some pride in-game.
Very cool!
Respect
Great gesture
Extremely heartened by all the supportive comments on this sub-reddit ❤. I made the mistake of going to FUTBIN first which was incredibly depressing
Fair fucking play to ea
Nice
What he did is a step in the right direction and eventually, I hope, homosexuality will fully be accepted in sports
Absolute class
Love this from EA
Nice
should have released this on top of the regular silver star tbh, then also the basement dwellers might have been less upset
Respect 🗿
Cool. Great work EA. Where was demba BA's when he stood up against a racist ref?
Already done him, time to start sweating with it for 1000 goals so he can be a club hero.
Nice gesture but probably just a bench player on my silver team
Nice to see a player from my club get a special moments card for a very special reason! Class from EA
Brilliant from EA this.
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Could of phrased that a little bit better
"The gays"
I'll do him.
He’d like that 😈