Sport Minister Andrea Abodi "doesn't like ostentation" and says it in no uncertain terms when speaking of the coming out of Jakub Jankto, the Czech footballer about to move to Cagliari (he will undergo medical tests tomorrow).

Interviewed on 24 Mattino on Radio 24, Abodi answered a question about the return to Italy of the midfielder, who a few months ago publicly declared he was homosexual.

" I am homosexual and I no longer want to hide . Like everyone else I have my strengths, my weaknesses. I have family, my friends. I have a job that I have been doing best for years, with seriousness, professionalism and passion. Like everyone else, I also want to live my life in freedom. Without fears. Without prejudice. Without violence. But with love," he wrote on his Instagram profile . Not his first coming out in the world of football, but certainly the most important given Jankto's high-level career, which boasts 45 appearances for his national team and over 150 appearances in Serie A, with 17 goals .

These are the words of Minister Abodi about him: «Society, in general, can probably still take a few steps forward. As far as I'm concerned, he's a person first and an athlete second. I do not make differences of characteristics that concern the sphere of personal choices. If I have to be equally sincere, I don't like ostentation in general , but individual choices must be respected for how they are taken and for what they are. I stop here".

A coming out, that of Jankto, made « first for myself and then to help others », the footballer later explained. « The football world is a bit homophobic , I've said it many times and we all know it, but it came to me suddenly, it wasn't something planned. That's how it came to me and I'm not sorry I did. Finally I can do what I want and I am very happy».

(Unioneonline/L)

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