Australian said he would be ‘scared’ to play in Gulf stateTournament organisers say Qatar is ‘like any other society’Australian footballer Josh Cavallo would be welcome at next year’s
World Cup, the chief executive of the tournament in Qatar has said, despite the country’s laws against homosexuality.
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The Adelaide United player, who became the world’s only current openly gay top-flight professional footballer when he came out last month, told the Guardian at the time he would be “scared” to play in the Gulf state.