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Lawrence Ostlere

Iker Casillas apologises to LGBT community and claims he was ‘hacked’ after tweet coming out as gay

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Iker Casillas has blamed a “hacked account” for a tweet which announced he was gay to his nearly 10 million followers.

The former Real Madrid goalkeeper apologised to the LGBT community after a tweet from his account which read: “I hope you respect me, I’m gay,” to which his ex-Spain teammate Carles Puyol replied: “It’s time to tell our story, Iker.”

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