The lesbian player Abby Wambach, striker for the US women's soccer team, surprised fans by celebrating the World Cup title, on Sunday (5), in Canada. For the first time, a player runs up and gives a kiss to… Wife, Sara Huffman.
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The celebratory scene – so common among straight couples, but rarely seen among LGBT couples – was recorded on TV around the world.
The journalist Sergio Xavier, from the program Redação SportTV, commented: "It's an image I've never seen in sport. I don't remember seeing a man kissing a man, a woman kissing a woman, in sport. I think it's proof that this is so It's as normal as Neymar kissing his girlfriend. I think it's cool that global TV showed that."
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The celebratory kiss has good reasons. In addition to the US team beating Japan 5-2, Abby is the second highest scorer in World Cup history.
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