One of the most main speaking issues in the summertime switch window has been Liverpool skipper Jordan Henderson transferring from the Merseyside to Saudi Professional League membership Al-Ettifaq.
That, the English midfielder had honed the picture of an best friend of the LGBTQIA+ neighborhood all the way through his time on the Premier League has been put below the scanner together with his transfer to Saudi Arabia, a rustic the place homosexuality is unlawful and punishable by means of dying.
Saudi Professional League director of soccer Michael Emenalo alternatively, believes that Henderson’s transfer to the league “is (now not) going to be one thing that defines (avid gamers’) legacy”.
“I to find it exhausting to know why coming right here would harm his legacy and (Lionel) Messi going to the MLS complements his legacy. There’s something incorrect with that. I don’t get why that will be the case,” Emenalo stated.
“I believe he stays professional homosexual rights, I don’t assume it adjustments the rest. I’m professional having a little bit little bit of a laugh each and every now and again however I’m additionally a lot more professional respecting the cultures of each and every nation, as a result of I’ve achieved that all over the place that I’ve lived and feature by no means observed one nation with the similar tradition as the opposite. There’s at all times one thing other. In some nations, you’ll be able to drink publicly nevertheless it (the bottle or can) must be in a brown paper bag; and in others you’ll be able to do that inside of your house or in no way,” he added.
Henderson moved from Liverpool to Al-Ettifaq on a three-year contract price £700,000 every week to sign up for a crew controlled by means of any other former Liverpool legend, Steven Gerrard.