{"id":356373,"date":"2025-12-18T16:09:21","date_gmt":"2025-12-18T16:09:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/356373\/"},"modified":"2025-12-18T16:09:21","modified_gmt":"2025-12-18T16:09:21","slug":"georgiades-selected-for-western-australia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/356373\/","title":{"rendered":"Georgiades selected for Western Australia"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"article__summary\">\n                Mitch Georgiades will represent Western Australia in February&#8217;s 2026 AAMI AFL Origin match.\n            <\/p>\n<p>Port Adelaide forward Mitch Georgiades has been selected to represent Western Australia in the 2026 AAMI AFL Origin match.<\/p>\n<p>Taking place on Saturday, February 14 at Optus Stadium, Western Australia will host Victoria in the first AFL Origin game since 1999.<\/p>\n<p>Georgiades, the Power&#8217;s back-to-back leading goalkicker, is eligible for selection based on his junior club location from which he was drafted.<\/p>\n<p>Growing up in Perth, Georgiades played his junior football with Marist Junior Football Club before being selected by Port Adelaide with pick 18 in the 2018 AFL Draft.<\/p>\n<p>The 23-year-old is among the latest group of Western Australians to be unveiled for the special pre-season game, joining Patrick Cripps, Aaron Naughton, Tom Barrass, Shai Bolton and Chad Warner.<\/p>\n<p>Georgiades enjoyed a career-best season in 2025, playing every possible game and kicking 58 goals to claim his second consecutive leading goalkicker award. His dominant year also saw him finish runner-up in Port Adelaide&#8217;s Best and Fairest and earn maiden All-Australian squad selection.<\/p>\n<p>He&#8217;ll line up against teammate Zak Butters, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.portadelaidefc.com.au\/news\/1929413\/butters-named-in-afl-origin-team\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">who was selected to represent Victoria last month.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>The Western Australian team has been chosen by head coach Dean Cox and Chairman of Selectors Glen Jakovich.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Mitch Georgiades will represent Western Australia in February&#8217;s 2026 AAMI AFL Origin match. Port Adelaide forward Mitch Georgiades&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":356374,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[560],"tags":[638,64,63,55,639,85,83],"class_list":{"0":"post-356373","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","14":"tag-text"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/356373","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=356373"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/356373\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/356374"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=356373"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=356373"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=356373"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}