Twitter. “In response we have decided to walk off the pitch in protest.”Martin, formerly a player with the Major League Soccer team Minnesota United, came out as gay in 2018; at the time, he was the only out gay man in a major American sports league.
San Diego led 3-1 in the Wednesday game when it made the decision to forfeit, reports NBC News. The decision may have cost the team its chance at the playoffs.However, "there are more important things in life [than playoffs], and we have to stick up for what we believe in,” asserted head coach Landon Donovan."I understand that most people watching from afar probably don’t really get it, but we’ve been living it," he said, adding that the team had promised to reject "bigotry, homophobic slurs,.