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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 27 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 26 in 2024). Justin Fashanu is the 6,018th most popular soccer player (down from 4,519th in 2024), the 5,578th most popular biography from United Kingdom (down from 4,656th in 2019) and the 345th most popular British Soccer Player.

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Among SOCCER PLAYERS

Among soccer players, Justin Fashanu ranks 6,016 out of 21,273. Before him are Seol Ki-hyeon, Hiroaki Morishima, Manuel Chorens, and Fagner Ribeiro da Costa. After him are Patrick Vervoort, Predrag Spasić, Agustín, Kaoru Mitoma, Noureddine Bouyahyaoui, Andriy Husin, Keiji Kaimoto, and Eljero Elia.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1961, Justin Fashanu ranks 550. Before him are George Lopez, Tatiana de Rosnay, and Alan Pardew. After him are Peter Thomsen, Alberto Vaquina, Lynn Hill, Miguel Tendillo, Acácio da Silva, Dirk Bach, Sam Bowie, Joe Walsh, and Irene Sáez. Among people deceased in 1998, Justin Fashanu ranks 308. Before him are Daniel Massey, E. M. S. Namboodiripad, Valerie Hobson, Rudy Dhaenens, Hammond Innes, and Gennady Yevryuzhikhin. After him are John Hunt, Baron Hunt, Josephine Hutchinson, Lalita Pawar, Jackie Blanchflower, Ruth Clifford, and Esther Rolle.

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In United Kingdom

Among people born in United Kingdom, Justin Fashanu ranks 5,575 out of 8,785. Before him are David Hobbs (1939). After him are Steve Rothery (1959), Peter Giles (1944), Gracie Fields (1898), John Rhodes (1927), Lucy Gordon (1980), Albert Ireton (1879), Sayeeda Warsi, Baroness Warsi (1971), Paul Clement (1972), Robin Sachs (1951), Brian Jacques (1939), and Barry Unsworth (1930).

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Among SOCCER PLAYERS In United Kingdom

Among soccer players born in United Kingdom, Justin Fashanu ranks 345. Before him are Tommy Lawton (1919), Terry Paine (1939), Darren Fletcher (1984), John Aldridge (1958), Ted Burgin (1927), and Neville Southall (1958). After him are Charlie Buchan (1891), David Kelly (1965), Don Howe (1935), Steve Sumner (1955), Viv Anderson (1956), and Alex McLeish (1959).

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