Full name Glenn Anton Hysen Name Anton Hysen Siblings Tobias Hysen | Playing position Role Footballer Nephews Lucas Hysen Number 20 Date joined 2015 | |
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Date of birth (1990-12-13) December 13, 1990 (age 25) Similar People Glenn Hysen, Tobias Hysen, Molly Nutley, Justin Fashanu, Alexander Hysen | ||
Parents Helena Hysen, Glenn Hysen | ||
Anton Hysen in Britain's Gay Footballers
Glenn Anton Hysén (born December 13, 1990) is a Swedish footballer who plays in the Swedish Football Division 2 for Torslanda IK, as a Defender.
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Anton Hysen in Britain's Gay Footballers
Football career
He is a former member of the Swedish under-17 team and was given a trainee contract with BK Häcken from 2007 to 2009, but was hindered by injuries and instead joined Utsiktens BK in 2010.
In 2014 he played with the American fourth division team Myrtle Beach FC. In 2015, he signed with Torslanda IK.
Personal life
Anton is the son of former Swedish international Glenn Hysén, and was born in Liverpool, where he was playing for Liverpool F.C.. He came out as gay to the Swedish football magazine Offside in March 2011. Daily Mail has described Anton as the "first high-profile Swedish footballer to announce that he is gay" and as the second active professional football player to come out, after English footballer Justin Fashanu in 1990. The BBC called him "a global one-off".
Hysén was profiled on Swedish broadcaster TV4 on March 9, 2011, in a debate show moderated by Lennart Ekdal titled Får även bögar spela fotboll? ("Can gays play football too?").
As of 2011 he worked part-time as a construction worker.
His older brothers are football players Tobias Hysén (half-brother) and Alexander Hysén. He won the seventh season of Let's Dance, being the first openly gay person to win this competition.
