With just under a month until our Multicultural Round clash against the Gold Coast SUNS, our 2016 Australia Post Multicultural Player Ambassador Dayne Zorko wants to take you inside the Club to learn more about some of our multicultural players.
This week Zorko caught up with one of our Rookies, Reuben William.
Born in South Sudan, William has a very interesting story, which was featured on AFL.com.au late last year.
Excerpt from AFL.com.au:
When William was an infant, his father Deng was among two million people to die during Sudan's civil war, which ravaged their homeland from 1983-2005.
William can't remember his father.
The family lived in South Sudan, where the war started and which remained a hotbed of conflict.
Reuben William's mother Veronica did it hard with her five children, of which Reuben was the second-youngest.
Veronica William fled Sudan with her children to Kenya, where they spent considerable time in a refugee camp.
They had each other, and some dreams for a better life, but little else.
They migrated to Australia in 2002, when William was four, and he hasn't looked back”
To find out more about the young and talented Reuben William, watch Zorko’s interview with him at the top of the page.
Last week the Brisbane Lions celebrated multiculturalism at the Luminous Lantern Parade at South Bank with MDA.
