LA Galaxy’s Robbie Rogers got a special shout out from President Barack Obama during the soccer team’s visit to the White House this week.
Obama praised Rogers, who came out in 2013, for “blazing a trail as one of professional sports’ first openly gay players” when the LA Galaxy was honored as the top team in Major League Soccer at the White House on Feb. 2, alongside the Los Angeles Kings, which nabbed hockey’s most prestigious award, the Stanley Cup.
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“That’s always been a little weird to me,” he said at the time.
