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Craig Foster has applauded Josh Cavallo's "courageous" Twitter takedown of 2 Spanish shot legends for their "I'm gay" societal media debacle this week.
Retired goalkeeper Iker Casillas claimed helium had been hacked and apologised to the LGBTQ+ assemblage aft a tweet from his authoritative relationship said: "I anticipation you respect me: I'm gay. #happysunday."
Former teammate Carles Puyol responded to the tweet saying: "It's clip to archer our story, Iker" earlier besides backtracking and apologising for his "clumsy joke."
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Australian Cavallo, who plays for Adelaide United, lashed the duo for their actions.
The 22-year-old Cavallo became the archetypal progressive antheral nonrecreational footballer to travel retired arsenic cheery past year.
"@IkerCasillas and @Carles5puyol joking and making amusive retired of coming retired successful shot is disappointing," Cavallo wrote.
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"It's a hard travel that immoderate LGBTQ+ ppl person to spell through. To spot my relation models and legends of the crippled marque amusive retired of coming retired and my assemblage is beyond disrespectful."
Former Socceroos skipper Foster said Cavallo's comments were awesome for specified a young man.
"What that says to maine is he's increasing successful assurance successful himself," Foster said connected Stan Sport FC.
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"Because we can't underestimate the level of courageousness that it took for him to bash that. One of the reasons wherefore it took truthful agelong for Josh and for others, and 1 of the reasons wherefore we've lone got 2 [openly] cheery footballers contiguous successful the world, is due to the fact that of this cognition successful the crippled to cheery antheral footballers.
"People tin speech astir the intent of what Iker did but successful shot there's not capable information of the existent susceptible radical of people, who are talked astir perpetually successful this way, which puts them nether unit wrong and extracurricular dressing rooms.
"So the cognition of shot towards the LGBTI assemblage has a agelong mode to go. It doesn't assistance that the World Cup is going to beryllium successful a state (Qatar) that has criminalised the LGBTI community, which truly demonstrates a deficiency of commitment.
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"And these are moments erstwhile footballers each astir the satellite tin spot what's happened here. Iker Casillas, portion helium says helium was hacked, has tried to marque immoderate signifier of apology. Let's anticipation that helium makes a fulsome one.
"This is the conception of the crippled and we request to bash much, much, overmuch amended for radical similar Josh Cavallo and each Josh Cavallo successful dressing rooms astir the world."
Casillas divided from his woman Sara Carbonero earlier this year.
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The tweet came a time aft Spanish media reported that helium was successful a narration with a section actress.
"I don't cognize Iker Casillas peculiarly good but I cognize him and he's not that benignant of person," erstwhile Manchester United goalkeeper Mark Bosnich said connected Stan Sport FC.
"He'll beryllium mortified that he's upset immoderate benignant of group."
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