Tragedy Strikes AFL Mt Isa Community
- Sunday, August 28 2016 @ 08:44 pm ACST
- Contributed by: Wesley Hull
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The Mt Isa football community is in shock and a state of grieving after a young footballer died last week after having collapsed in a match the previous weekend. The young man from the Lake Nash All Stars team (a community just 17 kilometres from the Northern Territory/Queensland border on the Territory side and roughly 375 kilometres by road from Mt Isa) collapsed after being taken from the ground.
The All Stars team travels each match day from Alpurrurulam (the correct name of the community) on a round trip of around 750 kilometres for opportunity to play.
According to the local North West Star newspaper, in an article by Samantha Walton: