{"id":1680805,"date":"2022-10-09T23:50:20","date_gmt":"2022-10-10T03:50:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1680805"},"modified":"2022-10-09T23:50:58","modified_gmt":"2022-10-10T03:50:58","slug":"soccer-cavallo-criticises-casillas-for-deleted-im-gay-twitter-post","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/soccer-cavallo-criticises-casillas-for-deleted-im-gay-twitter-post\/","title":{"rendered":"Soccer-Cavallo criticises Casillas for deleted \u2018I\u2019m gay\u2019 Twitter post"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">18<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fsoccer-cavallo-criticises-casillas-for-deleted-im-gay-twitter-post%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1680805&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p>(Reuters) \u2013     Australia\u2019s first openly gay footballer, Josh Cavallo, criticised Iker Casillas for being \u201cbeyond disrespectful\u201d and joking about coming out after a post on the former Spain and Real Madrid goalkeeper\u2019s Twitter account said he was gay.<\/p>\n<p>A post on Casillas\u2019 official account on Sunday said: \u201cI hope you respect me: I\u2019m gay\u201d to which former Barcelona defender Carles Puyol responded: \u201cThe time has come to tell our story, Iker.\u201dThe post on the Casillas account was later deleted and he  said his account had been hacked and he apologised to his fans and the LGBT community, as did Puyol for what he said was a \u201cclumsy joke\u201d.<\/p>\n<div id=\"div-gpt-ad-1663871513696-art-1\">\n<\/div>\n<p>Cavallo criticised the Spanish duo for making fun of the issue.<\/p>\n<p>\u201c@IkerCasillas and @Carles5puyol joking and making fun out of coming out in football is disappointing,\u201d Cavallo, who became the first active A-League player to come out as gay last year, said on Twitter.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s a difficult journey that any LGBTQ+ ppl have to go through. To see my role models and legends of the game make fun out of coming out and my community is beyond disrespectful,\u201d Cavallo said.     <\/p>\n<p>Casillas and Puyol did not immediately respond to a request for comment.<\/p>\n<p>Spanish media reports said Casillas\u2019 initial Twitter post  could have been in response to the speculation about his private life following his separation from Sara Carbonero last year.   <\/p>\n<p> (Reporting by Shrivathsa Sridhar in Bengaluru; Editing by Robert Birsel)<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.oann.com\/uncategorized\/soccer-cavallo-criticises-casillas-for\/attachment\/champions-league-quarter-final-second-leg-fc-porto-v\/\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/tagreuters.com2022binary_LYNXMPEI9903X-BASEIMAGE.jpg\" alt=\"tagreuters.com2022binary_LYNXMPEI9903X-BASEIMAGE\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>(Reuters) \u2013 Australia\u2019s first openly gay footballer, Josh Cavallo, criticised Iker Casillas for being \u201cbeyond disrespectful\u201d and joking about coming out after a post on the former Spain and Real<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":66,"featured_media":2315279,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1680805","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1680805","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/66"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1680805"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1680805\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2315279"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1680805"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1680805"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1680805"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}