Cheers for the support, make sure you like and subscribe for more footy content 💙💯 Insta: Aussie_thingz 2021 2022 this video is showcasing the best current players from different countries around the world.
What I like to know, how many were raise here and enjoy the game so much they want to play. Yet to come from overseas to play football/AFL is totally different. Yet I do know there were some that did.
Max Gawn was born in Australia to parents Sandra (of New Zealand) and Robert (of New Zealand, and former South Island rugby representative player) who migrated to Australia as young adults they moved Max to Greymouth on the South Island of New Zealand at the age of 3. A few years later, his parents settled permanently in Melbourne
@@hamishman2196 thank you, another assumption I think of is that they had their background in similar sports like rugby, American football then move to Aus to study and play this Australian football in universities.
Irish players play a similar code of football using a round ball (Gaelic Football) and AFL talent scouts will look to recruit from that competition and have done so with a reasonable level of success including one player winning the award for the season's best player (Jim Stynes) The governing body also runs alternative pathway programs running trials for potential converts from other sports. At one point this focused on North America, which produced Mason Cox, and now focuses on Africa with at least one junior player (late teens) being prelisted on a pathway program. The rest as suggested migrants to Australia playing in junior competitions.
