Category: soccer

An American soccer team rallied around a gay player after he was subjected to homophobic abuse during a game. Couper Gunn, who is a defender and team captain on the Colby-Sawyer College men’s soccer team, the Chargers, was competing in a match against the Rivier University Raiders when the incident took place. Right before halftime during the 22 September game, one of the opposing team’s players approached Gunn, who was wearing a rainbow-coloured armband. “Get that f****t armband off of you,” Gunn says he was told. In the immediate aftermath…