NINE years ago, Rob Sitch's cousin placed an ad in a Copenhagen newspaper. "Homesick Aussie looking for a kick of the Footy." A Dane and a Kiwi answered. Now, Denmark boasts a nine-team Australian football competition, with juniors.
In South Africa, participation numbers have topped 8000, only seven years after Mtutu Hlomela arrived in Adelaide to take up what he thought was a soccer scholarship, only to find himself signed for a version of football he'd never heard of. He stayed the course, took the game home and converted the masses.
