Football's South Pacific Paradise
- Saturday, September 04 2004 @ 06:30 am ACST
- Contributed by: Brett Northey
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Kolja Koracak first encountered Aussie Rules in the USA, playing two seasons in the Arizona AFL. On returning to his homeland of Croatia, he started looking for ways to spread the word and get a regular fix of his new favourite sport.
Sash Herceg arrived in Perth in 1996, a recent immigrant from the city of Split on Croatia's Adriatic coast. After a few years of watching Australia's own football code, he decided to give it a go, playing senior football for West Coast Cowan in Perth and the Fitzroy Reds in Melbourne.
WFN recently caught up with the two to talk about plans for bringing the game back to Croatia.