Anton Hysén

Anton Hysén

Hysén at Utsiktens BK in 2012
Personal information
Full name Glenn Anton Hysén[1]
Date of birth (1990-12-13) December 13, 1990[2]
Place of birth Liverpool, England[3]
Playing position Defender[2]
Club information
Current team
Torslanda IK
Number 20[2]
Youth career
1999–2000 Torslanda IK
2001–2003 Lundby IF
2004–2007 BK Häcken[2]
Senior career*
Years Team Apps (Gls)
2008–2009 BK Häcken 0 (0)
2010–2013 Utsiktens BK[2] 71 (2)
2014 Myrtle Beach FC 0 (0)
2015– Torslanda IK

* Senior club appearances and goals counted for the domestic league only.

† Appearances (goals)

Glenn Anton Hysén (born December 13, 1990) is a Swedish footballer who plays in the Swedish Football Division 2 for Torslanda IK, as a defender.

Football career

He is a former member of the Swedish under-17 team and was given a trainee contract with BK Häcken from 2007 to 2009,[4] but was hindered by injuries and instead joined Utsiktens BK in 2010.

In 2014 he played with the American fourth division team Myrtle Beach FC. In 2015, he signed with Torslanda IK.[5]

Personal life

Anton is the son of former Swedish international Glenn Hysén, and was born in Liverpool, where he was playing for Liverpool F.C.. He came out as gay to the Swedish football magazine Offside in March 2011.[6] Daily Mail has described Anton as the "first high-profile Swedish footballer to announce that he is gay" and as the second active professional football player to come out, after English footballer Justin Fashanu in 1990.[3][7] The BBC called him "a global one-off".[8]

Hysén was profiled on Swedish broadcaster TV4 on March 9, 2011, in a debate show moderated by Lennart Ekdal titled Får även bögar spela fotboll? ("Can gays play football too?").[9]

As of 2011 he worked part-time as a construction worker.[3]

His older brothers are football players Tobias Hysén (half-brother) and Alexander Hysén.[6] He won the seventh season of Let's Dance, being the first openly gay person to win this competition.

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