The Clontarf Foundation is a non-profit foundation with the aims to improve the health, employment, education and life skills of Australia’s teenaged male indigenous population. A foundation is a legal categorization of Nonprofit organizations. Indigenous Australians are descendants of the first known human inhabitants of the Australian continent and its nearby islands. It uses participation in the popular sport of Australian rules football to assist in achieving these aims. Australian (rules football, or simply known as football, footy or Aussie rules, is a Team sport played between two teams of 18 players
The founder and managing director is Gerard Neesham, who has overseen the development of many indigenous footballers as a coach for the Fremantle Football Club. Managing director is the term used for the Chief executive of many limited companies in the United Kingdom, Commonwealth and some other English Gerard Neesham (born 11 December 1954 was an Australian rules footballer in the WAFL and VFL as well as coach in the WAFL and AFL. Fremantle Football Club, unofficially nicknamed The Dockers and known informally as "Freo" is one of 16 teams in the Australian Football League (AFL The foundation chairman is Ross Kelly, a chairman, director or board member of many prominent West Australian companies and the former chairman of the Fremantle Football Club. Staff include former Fremantle players Dale Kickett, Ashley Prescott and Andrew McGovern, as well as many other former players from the Australian Football League or the WAFL. Dale Kickett (born 4 May 1968 is a former Australian rules footballer He is one of only three players and the only living person to have played for five clubs in the Ashley Prescott (born 11 September 1972 is a former Australian rules footballer He played with the Richmond and Fremantle Football Clubs in the AFL Andrew McGovern (born 7 April 1968 is a former Australian rules footballer who played for the Sydney Swans and Fremantle in the Australian Football The Australian Football League (AFL is both the professional Australian national competition in the Sport of Australian Rules Football and its highest Current teams The teams currently playing in the WAFL are Salary Cap The WAFL is classed as a Semi-professional competition and has a Salary
The original Clontarf Football Academy was established in 2000 at the Clontarf Aboriginal College site in Waterford, Western Australia. Clontarf Aboriginal College is the current name of a former Orphanage for boys operated by the Christian Brothers organisation in the Perth suburb of Waterford is a suburb of Perth, Western Australia. Its Local Government Area is the City of South Perth. Since then Clontarf Football Academies have been commenced in the Goldfields (Kalgoorlie), Great Southern (Albany), Midwest (Geraldton), West Kimberley (Broome) and Yule Brook (Maddington). Albany ( is located in the Great Southern region of Western Australia, situated around a port on the southern coast For other places and usages see Broome. Broome is a pearling and tourist town in the Kimberley region of Western Australia, 2200 km north Maddington is a suburb of Perth, Western Australia, located within the City of Gosnells.
Graduates of the academies who have gone on to play football at a professional level include Mark Williams, Dion Woods, Andrew Krakouer, Michael Johnson and Patrick Ryder. Mark L Williams (born 13 April 1983 is an indigenous Australian rules footballer who currently plays with Hawthorn. Dion Woods (born 25 January 1982 is an Australian rules footballer who played for the Fremantle Dockers between 2001 and 2005 Andrew J Krakouer (born 4 February 1983 is a former Australian rules footballer Krakouer played for the Richmond Football Club in the Australian Football Michael Johnson (born 20 October 1984 is a full back or ruckman for the Fremantle Dockers. Patrick "Paddy" Ryder (born 3 March 1988 is an Australian rules footballer in the Australian Football League. The academy produced three picks in the 2005 AFL Draft and six in the 2006 AFL Draft. The 2005 AFL Draft consisted of a pre-season draft a national draft a trade period and a rookie elevation The 2006 AFL Draft is a recent national draft of the Australian Football League. [1]
In 2006 the Clontarf Foundation conducted an exercise in South Africa, sending a group of young indigenous Australian players, as well as Jason McCartney and Derek Kickett, to Potchefstroom, where they played games against local South African players. The Republic of South Africa (also known by other official names) is a country located at the southern tip of the continent of Africa Jason McCartney (born 14 March 1974 is a former Australian rules footballer and 2002 Bali bombing survivor Derek Kickett (born 6 October 1962 is a former Australian rules footballer From 1989 to 1996 he played 152 games with North Melbourne Football Club, Essendon Potchefstroom is an Academic city hosting the Potchefstroom Campus of the North-West University (previously known as Potchefstroom University [1] The Indigenous Youth Tour is part of the Australian Football League's ongoing wish to expand the game outside Australia. The Australian Football League (AFL is both the professional Australian national competition in the Sport of Australian Rules Football and its highest
The Foundation is a member of the National Trust of Australia. The Australian Council of National Trusts (ACNT is a community-based non-government organisation committed to promoting and conserving Australia's indigenous natural and historic heritage
References
- ^ Clontarf Football Academy from vibe. com. au
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