Football World Cup
Like many Australians of my generation and background, there was hardly a weekend when my dad wasn’t taking me to a football ground. In fact, Sunday meant Sunday School and soccer and the opportunity to catch up with all the people who spoke the same sporting language.
Football clubs were the centrepiece of the social life of many migrant and refugee communities and many clubs became some of the great nurseries of football talent over subsequent years.
Since then, football’s popularity has grown across Australia and has expanded from the weekend ritual of migrant families to become the most popular sport for Aussie boys and, increasingly, girls. Its rising prominence in Australian culture comes at a time when the country is bidding for the FIFA World Cup to come here in either 2018 or 2022.
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