{"id":148238,"date":"2025-09-16T20:58:07","date_gmt":"2025-09-16T20:58:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/148238\/"},"modified":"2025-09-16T20:58:07","modified_gmt":"2025-09-16T20:58:07","slug":"st-kilda-partnership-brings-afl-opportunities-to-fijian-youth-fbc-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/148238\/","title":{"rendered":"St Kilda partnership brings AFL opportunities to Fijian youth \u2013 FBC News"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/afl.jpg\"\/><\/p>\n<p>[Source: AFL Fiji]<\/p>\n<p>Fiji\u2019s Australian Football League Development Officer, Loata Vakausausa, is encouraging young people across the country to take up the sport, as new opportunities emerge through a major international partnership.<\/p>\n<p>Following the launch of a strategic collaboration between St Kilda Football Club, in the AFL, and the Fijian Government, aspiring players will now have access to free clinics and training sessions led by top-level AFL professionals.<\/p>\n<p>The partnership, signed with the Ministry of Tourism and Civil Aviation, will see St Kilda deliver development programs across Fiji over the next three years.<\/p>\n<p>Article continues after advertisement<\/p>\n<p>These include grassroots clinics, talent identification initiatives, and community engagement activities aimed at growing the sport locally.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAFL development work in Fiji is not easy; there\u2019s a lot of expenses to it, so having this partnership will lighten the load and expand AFL in Fiji.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Vakausausa highlighted that this is an ideal time for young athletes to get involved, with AFL offering strong career prospects for those who are committed and prepared to work hard.<\/p>\n<p>As one of the highest-paying sports in Australia, AFL presents a viable professional pathway for talented individuals in Fiji.<\/p>\n<p><a id=\"viti-plus-link-article\" href=\"https:\/\/www.viti.plus\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Stream the best of Fiji on VITI+.  Anytime.  Anywhere.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"[Source: AFL Fiji] Fiji\u2019s Australian Football League Development Officer, Loata Vakausausa, is encouraging young people across the country&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":148239,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[560],"tags":[638,64,63,55,639,85],"class_list":{"0":"post-148238","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-afl","8":"tag-afl","9":"tag-au","10":"tag-australia","11":"tag-australian-football-league","12":"tag-australianfootballleague","13":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/148238","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=148238"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/148238\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/148239"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=148238"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=148238"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=148238"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}