AFL seeks converts in its own backyard
Nick Sheridan | March 2, 2008
Nguyen is one of the AFL's multicultural development officers, and he is based in the culturally diverse south-eastern suburbs right here in the heartland of footy — Melbourne.
Nguyen introduces football to these kids through a series of school clinics, AFL player visits and excursions to AFL events.
Nguyen, himself a talented footballer who has played in the TAC Cup, the VFL and AFL Queensland, is one of five people employed by the league to work in particularly multicultural regions of Melbourne, where families from African, South American, Asian and Arabic backgrounds are forming their first links with Australian culture.
Each officer is based with an AFL club, and works in primary, secondary and English-language schools, and at migrant employment services in their areas.
Nguyen is based with Hawthorn at its new home at Waverley Park and focuses on the municipalities of Greater Dandenong and Casey. There are four other officers in Melbourne — based with Collingwood, Essendon, the Western Bulldogs,
and Richmond.
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