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Also by Robbie Rogers:

Coming Out to Play, December 2014
Hardcover / e-Book

Also by Eric Marcus:

Coming Out to Play, December 2014
Hardcover / e-Book

Coming Out to Play
Robbie Rogers, Eric Marcus

Biteback
December 2014
On Sale: November 24, 2014
240 pages
ISBN: 1849547203
EAN: 9781849547208
Kindle: B00K0U6MRK
Hardcover / e-Book
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Non-Fiction Memoir

When Robbie Rogers stepped onto the field for the LA Galaxy in 2013, he made history as the first openly gay man to play in a major US professional sport.

Coming Out to Play tells Rogers's harrowing story as a closeted gay man in the ultra-heterosexual world of professional football, his decision to come out and leave behind his beloved sport, and his subsequent return to football - signing for the LA Galaxy.

Rogers knew he wanted to be a professional football player from the age of four, and knew he was gay from the age of thirteen. He kept the latter hidden until he was twenty-five, believing the two realities to be totally irreconcilable.

For twelve years he mastered the art of deception, both inwardly to himself and outwardly to teammates, friends, and family. In a February 2013 blog post that received global attention, he finally came out to the world.

Rogers's memoir is a moving account of love overcoming prejudice, and a clarion call to other gay sports people around the world to openly embrace their sexuality.

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