{"id":530368,"date":"2026-03-10T05:30:08","date_gmt":"2026-03-10T05:30:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/530368\/"},"modified":"2026-03-10T05:30:08","modified_gmt":"2026-03-10T05:30:08","slug":"matera-officially-elevated-to-legend-status-in-australian-football-hall-of-fame","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/530368\/","title":{"rendered":"Matera officially elevated to legend status in Australian Football Hall of Fame"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Peter Matera, originally inducted into the Australian Football Hall of Fame in 2006, was last night elevated to Legend Status.<\/p>\n<p>CLICK PLAY to hear Matera reflect on his career.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p>The key figure in West Coast\u2019s success in the \u201990s reminisced about his incredible career with 6PR Breakfast hosts Millsy and his old teammate Karl, who best described him as \u2018a freak\u2019. <\/p>\n<p>Matera reflected on his playing style, saying: \u201cIf I kicked the ball into the forward line and forwards missed it or didn\u2019t mark it I thought well you\u2019re not getting it the next time I\u2019m going to go myself,\u2019<\/p>\n<p>Hear more highlights below and download the 6PR app on iOS or Android to ensure you don\u2019t miss a thing!<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p>Image: Paul Kane\/Getty Images<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Peter Matera, originally inducted into the Australian Football Hall of Fame in 2006, was last night elevated to&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":530369,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[563],"tags":[64,63,596,85],"class_list":["post-530368","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-football","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-football","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/530368","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=530368"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/530368\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/530369"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=530368"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=530368"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=530368"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}