USAFL Launches Australian Advisory Board

The United States Australian Football League (USAFL) is pleased to announce the creation of the Australian Advisory Board. The Board’s mission is “to promote the interests of the USAFL in Australia”. The USAFL will enter its tenth year during this October's US National Championships in Las Vegas. This is the perfect timing to seek the support of football partners in Australia that can help the USAFL to continue to grow the game in America. During it's formative years the USAFL was able to grow through organic growth from the recruitment of American players. As the game's growth has stabilized, the next wave of growth will come though creative and meaningful relationships with Australian individuals and businesses that have a tie to both the sport and America.

The vision of the Advisory Board is:

Friends of the USAFL, in Australia, who have a stature in both business and football, who are willing to advise the USAFL on business in Australia, the inner workings of the game in Australia and their general understanding of everything football.

The aim is to have an Australian wide membership of between 5 and 7 individuals who can advise the USAFL on how to become a better partner of the AFL, access broader support of the USAFL in Australia, and publicize the existence of the USAFL to people moving to the USA.

To launch the Board the USAFL is privileged to have Terry O’Connor as the inaugural Chairman. Terry was the first Interstate Commissioner of the AFL and a former Chairman of the West Coast Eagles Football Club.  He is a retired barrister and received the Order of Australia in 2006.

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Along with Terry we have asked Tony Fairhead to be the Director of the Advisory Board and to manage all the day-to-day operations of the Board. Tony is a football fanatic, based in Fremantle, WA, and has been working with the USAFL for over 10 months. Tony will be barracking on the sidelines in Las Vegas during the National Championships.

The USAFL plans to establish a US Advisory Board during the upcoming off-season.

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