Australian football or AFL is the most popular football code with Aboriginal people. Nidja is not surprising as some elements of the Indigenous ball game usually called Marngrook — such as high marking — made their way into Australian rules football.[1] The same source quotes:
Formed in the 1850s frontier contact zone, Australian football owes more to the experience of warfare between British settlers and Indigenous Australians than is usually recognised.
In an essay titled "The Indigenous Game: A Matter of Choice", published in the 2008 AFL history book The Australian Game of Football Since 1858,[2] Adam Goodes, an Aboriginal player who played for Sydney Swans, writes of the ancient Aboriginal game, Marngrook, and its possible link to the origins of Australian rules football: "I don't know the truth, but I believe in the connection. Because I know that when Aborigines play Australian Football with a clear mind and total focus, we are born to play it."
A third of Indigenous AFL players, wer some of the game's spectacular legends, come from keny language group – the Noongar.[3]
Racism in AFL
editSee the bonar Racism in AFL, see also "Racism, recognition and reconciliation in AFL: A young player's perspective".[4]
AFL Mia
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Adelaide
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Eddit Betts
Anthony Wilson
Cameron Ellis-Yolmen
Charlie Cameron
Brisbane
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Allen Christensen
Josh McGuinness
Carlton
editLiam Jones
Andrew Walker
Chris Yarran
Clem Smith
Collingwood
editTony Armstrong
Travis Varcoe
Essendon
editJake Long
Courtenay Dempsey
Shaun Edwards
Brady Grey
Jonathon Griffin
Stephen Hill
Michael Johnson
Alex Pearce
Danyle Pearce
Michael Walters
Geelong
editBradley Hartman
Steven Motlop
Mathew Stokes
Zachary Bates
Nakia Cockatoo
Gold Coast
editHarley Bennell
Jarrod Harbrow
Sean Lemmons
Jack Martin
Brandon Matera
Steven May
Jarrod Garlett
Greater Western Sydney
editPaul Ahern
Curtly Hampton
Zach Williams
Nathan Wilson
Jeremy Finlayson
Jarrod Pickett
Jermaine Mark-Miller-Lewis
Hawthorne
editJed Anderson
Shaun Burgoyne
Bradley Hill
Cyril Rioli
Melbourne
editJeffrey Garlett
Jay Kennedy-Harris
Neville Jetta
North Melbourne
editLindsay Thomas
Daniel Wells
Port Adelaide
editKarl Amon
Jarman Impey
Jake Neade
Nathan Krakouer
Chad Wingard
Shane Edwards
Nathan Drummond
Sydney
editLance Franklin
Lewis Jetta
Abaina Davis
West Coast Eagles
editJamie Bennell
Josh Hill
Malcolm Karpany
Sharrod Wellingham
Murray Newman
Western Bulldogs
editBrett Goodes
Koby Stevens
Joel Hamling
AFL Noongar Maaman Kura
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AFL Noongar Maaman Yeye
editThere is a list of aboriginal AFL players at the English Wikipedia, see List of VFL/AFL players of Indigenous Australian descent. There is also an indigenous map from AFL Players.
WAFL Noongar Maaman Kura
editWAWFL Yok/Yorga Yeye
editNgiyan waarnk
edit- ↑ Robert Pascoe and Gerardo Papalia. "Did Indigenous warriors influence the development of Australian rules football?". 23 March 2017. ABC News. Retrieved 27 March 2017
- ↑ Goodes, Adam (2008). "The Indigenous Game: A Matter of Choice". In Weston, James. The Australian Game of Football: Since 1858. Geoff Slattery Publishing. pp. 175–185. ISBN 978-0-9803466-6-4.
- ↑ "The Noongar Warriors". The Sydney Morning Herald. Retrieved 4 September 2016
- ↑ Mark Rigby. "Racism, recognition and reconciliation in AFL: A young player's perspective". ABC News. Retrieved 2 June 2017