When soccer player Robbie Rogers was with the LA Galaxy, he lived just a couple of blocks away from the rundown Holloway Motel on Santa Monica Boulevard in West Hollywood.

“I walked by it all the time,” Rogers tells me. “I kind of noticed it, but didn’t notice it.”

Little did he know – or anyone for that matter –that the longtime motel manager and its only full-time resident was Tony Powell, a former British soccer star who mysteriously disappeared after retiring from the game about 40 years ago.

It turns out Powell made himself disappear when he cut off all contact with his family and friends in the U.K. – including his two daughters he shares with an ex-wife — when he moved to West Hollywood.

Why?

Because Powell was secretly gay.

Powell’s story is now being told in “ The Last Gu

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