Champion local goalkicker Maurice Goolagong is one of 100 inaugural inductees into the New South Wales Australian Football Hall of Fame, which will be officially unveiled at a gala dinner early next month.
Goolagong – who plied his trade across the state’s Central Coast region – was a brilliant full-forward who became the first player to kick 1000 goals in the AFL Black Diamond competition, a feat he achieved in 2011.
He told National Indigenous Times that he was shocked to receive this honour.
“I got it in an e-mail, it was sent to me by AFL NSW – they sent it to me two days early and I thought it was a hoax,” he said.
“I thought someone’s playing a joke on me or something – it’s a massive honour, I had goosebumps.
“I just couldn’t believe that I received it – I rang Mum and my sisters and let them know (and) everyone that I’ve told has said ‘that’s amazing’.”
Goolagong was…
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