{"id":361356,"date":"2025-12-20T23:25:10","date_gmt":"2025-12-20T23:25:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/361356\/"},"modified":"2025-12-20T23:25:10","modified_gmt":"2025-12-20T23:25:10","slug":"retired-fremantle-champions-first-post-afl-move-revealed-afl-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/361356\/","title":{"rendered":"Retired Fremantle champion’s first post-AFL move revealed – AFL News"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Retired Fremantle champion Michael Walters<\/a> has secured a role within the performance pathways and development arm of WA Football following his AFL<\/a> career.<\/p>\n

The 34-year-old has been appointed as the Indigenous and multicultural relationship manager, with the AFL<\/a> assisting in the process to have Walters join the team.<\/p>\n

Walters, who will officially begin the role in January, joins WA Football after 17 seasons with Fremantle, tallying 239 games and 35 goals.<\/p>\n

He would lead the Dockers’ goalkicking in five separate seasons, as well as being selected in the All-Australian team in 2019.<\/p>\n

During his career, Walters emerged as a role model for Indigenous players coming through the system across the country, with his standing recognised with captaincy of the Indigenous All Stars earlier this year.<\/p>\n

“I’m really looking forward to getting started and helping out WA footy and the talented players where I can from a support aspect, making sure we leave no stone left unturned from the day you step into the program to the day you step out of the program,” Walters said in a statement.\u00a0<\/p>\n

“I’m keen to play an important role in guiding more Indigenous and multicultural men and women to play the game that they love at a higher level, while enjoying their own individual journeys with them on-field but more importantly off-field.”<\/p>\n

\"MichaelMichael Walters poses for a photo in the 2025 Indigenous All-Stars playing guernsey. Picture: AFL Photos<\/p>\n

Walters’ role with WA Football will see the Dockers great work to support Indigenous and multicultural players and their families, as well as connecting with their communities.\u00a0<\/p>\n

WA Football’s performance pathways and development boss Peter Bell lauded the appointment of Walters and his impact on the game.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n

“It is incredibly exciting to introduce Michael into our WA Talent Pathways,\u201d Bell said.<\/p>\n

“For all of our young athletes to have access to Michael and to learn from his experiences will leave a lasting impact on each athlete and will positively impact many within the WA Football landscape.<\/p>\n

“We are extremely grateful for the AFL<\/a> to have provided funding support for Michael’s role.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Retired Fremantle champion Michael Walters has secured a role within the performance pathways and development arm of WA…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":361357,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[560],"tags":[638,64,63,55,639,85],"class_list":{"0":"post-361356","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\/361356","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=361356"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/361356\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/361357"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=361356"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=361356"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=361356"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}