death_date nationalcaps birth_date years death_place caps goals image_size nationalyears image name fullname birth_place nationalteam totalcaps totalgoals nationalgoals youthclubs clubs position article_title
2 may 1998 11 19 february 1961 1980 1985 -- 1987 1988 1989 1989 1989 -- 1990 1990 1981 1990 1991 1991 1991 1991 1991 -- 1993 1993 1993 1981 1993 -- 1994 1995 -- 1997 1997 -- 1982 1982 1982 -- 1985 shoreditch , london , england 90 2 2 5 6 ? 0 41 16 1 11 5 3 ? 18 6 32 9 64 16 12 26 35 0 0 0 1 7 0 15 5 0 1 3 2 ? 12 2 3 3 20 2 5 17 250px 1980 -- 1982 justin fashanu www.7sur7.be.jpg justin fashanu justinus soni fashanu hackney , london , england england u21 365 133 5 norwich city norwich adelaide city -lrb- loan -rrb- nottingham forest → southampton -lrb- city loan -rrb- notts county brighton & hove albion los angeles → heat edmonton brickmen manchester city west ham united leyton orient adelaide hamilton steelers southall toronto blizzard leatherhead newcastle united torquay united city airdrieonians trelleborg heart of midlothian atlanta ruckus miramar rangers -lrb- loan -rrb- → forward justin fashanu

justin fashanu

justinus soni `` justin '' fashanu -lrb- ; 19 february 1961 -- 2 may 1998 -rrb- 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 to the press later in his career , becoming the first and one of only two english professional footballers to be openly gay .
he was also the first black footballer to command a # 1million transfer fee , with his transfer from norwich city to nottingham forest in 1981 , but had little success as a player afterwards , although he continued to play at senior level until 1994 .
after moving to the united states , in 1998 he was questioned by police when a seventeen-year-old boy accused him of sexual assault .
he was charged , and an arrest warrant for him was issued in howard county , maryland on 3 april 1998 , but he had already left his flat .
according to his suicide note , fearing he would not get a fair trial because of his homosexuality , he fled to england where he killed himself in london in may 1998 .
his suicide note stated that the sex was consensual .
