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The AFL recently announced former AFL player, Tony Woods, as the AFL’s first international development manager. Perhaps now it is clear that ‘head office’ is taking this all seriously.
In the light of the establishment of two International Australian Football sides to compete in this years National Under 16 carnival in Blacktown, the Fairfax media at least has dedicated some column inches to fairly lengthy and respectful articles around the AFL international ‘push’.
On the weekend just gone, the Age’s Rohan Connolly provided a nice overview based around two ‘new’ Essendon PNG scholarship players.
Today we see Dan Silkstone from the Age provide two related stories, Argentina footys new promised land as well as AFL bedding down its own American dream.
That this coverage is becoming more plentiful, and critically and at the same time more respectful, illustrates a change in attitudes outside of a small handful of ‘dreamers’.
Who knows what will transpire for Australian Football.
Will we see a whole bunch of Argentineans coming over? Will an ‘American footy star’ hit the screens at all?
Some things though have been bubbling along just nicely.
With the mainstream media getting their finger more on the pulse, it may herald exciting times over the next few years as AFL clubs look further afield for talent with the arrival of GC17 and GWS18.
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