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Justin Fashanu

1961 - 1998

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Justinus Soni "Justin" Fashanu ( FASH-ə-noo; 19 February 1961 – 2 May 1998) was an English footballer who played for a variety of clubs between 1978 and 1997. He was known by his early clubs to be gay, and came out publicly later in his career, becoming the first professional footballer to be openly gay. He was also one of the first footballers to command a £1 million transfer fee, with his transfer from Norwich City to Nottingham Forest in 1981, and had varying levels of success as a player afterwards, until he retired in 1997. After moving to the United States, in 1998 he was questioned by police when a seventeen-year-old boy accused him of sexual assault. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Justin Fashanu is the 4,520th most popular soccer player, the 4,657th most popular biography from United Kingdom and the 211th most popular British Soccer Player.

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Among SOCCER PLAYERS

Among soccer players, Justin Fashanu ranks 4,520 out of 21,273. Before him are Tivadar Monostori, Yozhef Betsa, Les Ferdinand, Thomas Mavros, Luciano Vietto, and Casiano Delvalle. After him are Marcelinho Paraíba, Christian Corrêa Dionisio, Manuel Akanji, Georges Carnus, Masaaki Kato, and Ramón Quiroga.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1961, Justin Fashanu ranks 380. Before him are Aldo Costa, Margaret Mazzantini, Kim Deal, David Choquehuanca, Jim Hanks, and Corrado Fabi. After him are Dan Marino, Elena Yakovleva, Jasmin Repeša, Vladimir Kolokoltsev, Jurga Ivanauskaitė, and George Lopez. Among people deceased in 1998, Justin Fashanu ranks 271. Before him are Binnie Barnes, Mae Questel, Jesús Loroño, Ernst Ising, Eldridge Cleaver, and Naim Talu. After him are Louis Chaillot, Alberto Calderón, Tadeusz Ślusarski, Valerio Perentin, Norman Fell, and Gennady Yevryuzhikhin.

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In United Kingdom

Among people born in United Kingdom, Justin Fashanu ranks 4,657 out of 8,785. Before him are Les Ferdinand (1966), Emily Davies (1830), Alistair Petrie (1970), Zaida Ben-Yusuf (1869), Robert Morris (1734), and Thomas Pennant (1726). After him are John Wain (1925), Micky Moody (1950), Alice Greene (1879), Pete Doherty (1979), Rik Mayall (1958), and Dev Patel (1990).

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Among SOCCER PLAYERS In United Kingdom

Among soccer players born in United Kingdom, Justin Fashanu ranks 211. Before him are Dele Alli (1996), Billy Bingham (1931), Howard Kendall (1946), Tony Cascarino (1962), Gerry Hitchens (1934), and Les Ferdinand (1966). After him are Adam Lallana (1988), Trent Alexander-Arnold (1998), Terry McDermott (1951), Tony Woodcock (1955), Kieran Trippier (1990), and Jermain Defoe (1982).

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