World Footy News

Last month WFN encouraged football fans around the world to have a kick of their footy on "Kick Around Australia" Day. Joining Australian Defence Force personnel in celebrating the first game of Australian Football were 200 children in Samoa.

AFL Samoa's National Game Development Manager, Michael Roberts was was very happy with the turn-out, more-so considering they held the event after school hours, so children were giving up their own time. Participants came from four schools; Peace Chapel, Vailima, Vaiala Beach and Samoa. They congregated at one of the country's best known landmarks, Robert Louis Stevenson Museum (the Scottish author's old house) where they took part in various activities, tested their football knowledge in a footy trivia competition and were rewarded with "multicultural" handbooks, stickers, AFL tattoos and "Skills of the Game" posters .

The event also received local media coverage.