Sport
Meet the son of an ex-NRL star out to inspire more Indigenous kids to play football – The World Game
Western Sydney Wanderers full-back Tate Russell is a rare individual – an Indigenous professional footballer who is also the son of a former rugby league star….
Football has the lowest Indigenous representation of all the Australian sporting codes. Only a handful of players have represented the Socceroos or ever made it into the A-League, including the likes of James Brown, Travis Dodd, Jade North and David Williams.
But Russell wants to help change that trend.
One reason I think is just accessibility of the sport, Russell told The World Game.
AFL and NRL seem to dominate the country at the moment, and football, in general, is still continuing to build.
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