The AFL Multicultural tournament is being held in Blacktown Sydney where seven teams from all states & territories of Australia are playing three games daily.
Amandeep Singh, head coach for the NSW & ACT team is inviting all Indians and other people from diverse communities to come and enjoy these games where most of the players are either born overseas or one of their parents were born overseas.
AFL is purely an Australian game and new to the migrants, but this initiative of holding a tournament exclusively for multicultural communities has become a huge success. The players from diverse communities get exposed to the game from local schools and clubs but most of them have never tried the game on the field itself.
Amandeep Singh says "This game is a combination of Kabaddi and Wrestling that is widely played in the Indian sub-continent. The youth, once exposed to this game, love it so much that keep playing both on and off the field like cricket on Indian streets.’
says Amandeep Singh head coach Source: Amandeep
The multicultural AFL tournament began on 15th April and will continue until 19th April.
