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Gay players can come out in Football Manager 2018

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When it comes to supporting openly gay athletes, football has a long way to go, but Football Manager 2018 has decided to take a progressive step in the right direction. In the annual management simulation, which will be on sale starting on November 10 (on PC and tablets), players in the game will have the opportunity to publicly discuss their sexual orientation.

"Part of the reason we decided to do this is because there are gay footballers," SI's Miles Jacobson told the BBC. "We know from the amount of professionals that there has to be players who are gay but feel they don't want to come out. Being gay is just a totally normal thing in life, and it's the right thing to put it in the game because it's something that we're going to be seeing in the future."

In the game, revealing your sexuality will have beneficial consequences for the club, since it will generate additional income from the LGBT community.

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The goal isn't to reveal the sexual orientations of existing footballers without their consent, therefore these scenarios will only involve fictional players generated by the game after several seasons.

"Were able to do things with these players that we can't with real players, because they can't sue us," Jacobson explained, who also regrets that the subject remains so sensitive: "I just think it's crazy that in 2017 we are in a world where people can't be themselves."

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