{"id":57034,"date":"2025-08-10T06:05:09","date_gmt":"2025-08-10T06:05:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/57034\/"},"modified":"2025-08-10T06:05:09","modified_gmt":"2025-08-10T06:05:09","slug":"north-melbourne-debutants-nanna-tears-up-as-teenager-kicks-first-career-goal-versus-gws","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/57034\/","title":{"rendered":"North Melbourne debutant’s nanna tears up as teenager kicks first career goal versus GWS"},"content":{"rendered":"

North Melbourne<\/a> hasn’t had much to celebrate this season, but the debut of Cooper Trembath has certainly warmed hearts. <\/p>\n

The 19-year-old played his first AFL game on Sunday for Roos in Canberra against GWS<\/a>, with his family and, in particular, his nan making the trip.<\/p>\n

And when Trembath kicked his first career goal early in the game, teammates came from everywhere to celebrate with him.<\/p>\n

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\"Nan<\/p>\n

Nan tears up at Cooper Trembath’s first goal.\u00a0Getty<\/p>\n

Meanwhile nan in the crowd was moved to tears, receiving a group hug from the rest of the family.<\/p>\n

Veteran AFL broadcaster Anthony Hudson provided a hilarious anecdote, revealing nan was particularly excited to meet former Bulldog and current North Melbourne defender Caleb Daniel before the game. <\/p>\n

“She’s a 50-year Western Bulldogs supporter and as excited as she was for young Cooper, the highlight of today was being able to meet Caleb Daniel,” Hudson said.<\/p>\n

Naturally, Hawthorn champion Dermott Brereton feels that first goal will surpass the excitement of meeting Daniel.<\/p>\n

“Isn’t it amazing what this sport does to people. Good on ya, nan,” Brereton said.<\/p>\n

Trembath kicked his second early in the third quarter and nan got up and about again, giving him a standing ovation.<\/p>\n

The Roos grabbed the teenager in this year’s mid-season draft out of their own VFL team, after he was overlooked in the national draft.<\/p>\n

Despite spending the majority of the last few years playing in defence, Trembath earned his AFL opportunity with a few strong weeks of form playing forward.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"North Melbourne hasn’t had much to celebrate this season, but the debut of Cooper Trembath has certainly warmed…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":57035,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[560],"tags":[638,64,63,55,639,85],"class_list":["post-57034","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-afl","tag-afl","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-australian-football-league","tag-australianfootballleague","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57034","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=57034"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57034\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/57035"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=57034"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=57034"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=57034"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}