He will be fine - this is minor - the average person worships the sports hero - to the point of extreme adulation and forgiveness
Look at the various sports figures that have raped, gambled, drugged, and whatever you can think of.
Immorality and illegal actions are completely forgiven provided the sports hero can still run faster, jump higher, throw farther and so on.
Which is why I have almost completely forsaken professional sports - it is really no longer the game for the players and the fans - it is the private lives of players - the titillation of their actions - the media fawning, etc
It is the money, the greed, the sex, the drugs and the high life.
Even management often condones bad behaviour - often helping by adding their own reasons why this athlete did what he did.
Makes me sound bitter when I read it - but there are so many examples of this type of behaviour - or worse - in professional athletes today - on nearly a daily basis somewhere in North America - that the good guys have been over-shadowed in a big way.
If you are an accident of genetics, you can be worshipped as well.