Iker Casillas has said a tweet announcing he was gay, which was published from his personal Twitter account, was the result of a hack.
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The former Real Madrid and Spain goalkeeper posted the update to his 10 million followers on Sunday afternoon.
He posted;
Hacked account. Luckily everything in order. Apologies to all my followers. And of course, more apologies to the LGBT community.
Around 30 minutes earlier, the original post – which read ‘I hope you respect me, I’m gay’ – had been deleted from the account.
Former Barcelona captain Carles Puyol had initially responded to the tweet.
Translated, it read: “It’s time to tell them about us”.
But Puyol also subsequently removed his post following Casillas’ deletion.
Puyol later tweeted an apology, which read;
I was mistaken. Sorry for a clumsy joke without any bad intentions but absolutely out of place. I understand that it could have hurt feelings. All my respect and support for the LGBTQ+ community.
