Headlines inform the reader that he is being asked to explain himself against accusations of homophobia. Gueye has been ordered by the French football federation’s ethics board to answer accusations he missed a game to avoid wearing a rainbow jersey in support of the LGBTQI+ movement.
He doesn’t use his accident of talent and the fame that goes with it promote popular or populist causes.īut he has been pitched into the spotlight by making a private decision – for reasons we know little about and no one seems to really have asked. He has not made any public announcements. Talented, efficient and generally fairly quiet. You won’t have heard too much about him until now. Because of the global popularity of football, his talents, he is pitched into the spotlight, under the public eye. Who is Idrissa Gueye? He’s young black, Muslim man from Senegal.
