Its his mantra that has driven the GrassRoots Football Project and without the assistance of the Johnny Warren Foundation and John's nephew Jamie we would not be where we are today.
As they say... a very good place to start.
What can I say that hasn't already been said or written ? For the sake of others better qualified let me just state the john's GrassRoots club was Botany Methodists who played in the Protestant Churches Association, which, in its day was the largest football association in Australia. The club played out of Booralee Park in Botany and he followed both his brothers Ross & Geoff into the club & played with future Canterbury & Australian team mate John Watkiss.
Its his mantra that has driven the GrassRoots Football Project and without the assistance of the Johnny Warren Foundation and John's nephew Jamie we would not be where we are today. As they say... a very good place to start.
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the authorGreg Werner began playing in 1965, with the GrassRoots club of Socceroo skipper Murray Barnes, a change of suburb at age 6 and a new club, one that would become the GrassRoots club of Rob Wheatley & after a 27 year hiatus came back to playing with the GrassRoots club of Socceroos Steve Perry, Richie Bell, Chris Iconomidis & Matilda, Justine Fisher, one could say that the links with the NT are ingrained.
At age 55, when his body gave up on playing, he took up the whistle to stay actively involved. In November of 2014 he created the GFP on Facebook to fill the void left by those in control of the game & in January 2016 launched this website. |