Finding the next Indigenous football star!
Finding the next Indigenous football star!
- Compared to other codes football is lagging. Indigenous people make up two and a half per cent of the total Australian population, but in the AFL they make up nine percent of the playing list while the NRL boast’s even higher figures with 12 percent. During the 2015/16 A-League season one time Socceroo and current Brisbane Roar Defender Jade North, was the only Indigenous representative in Australia's top flight.
- Compared to other codes football is lagging. Indigenous people make up two and a half per cent of the total Australian population, but in the AFL they make up nine percent of the playing list while the NRL boast’s even higher figures with 12 percent. During the 2015/16 A-League season one time Socceroo and current Brisbane Roar Defender Jade North, was the only Indigenous representative in Australia's top flight.