Join Facebook to connect with Aliir III and others you may know. Aliir Aliir is a key defender with elite intercept-marking skills who generates a wealth of drive out of the Sydney Swans’ backline. Within a few years, he had made the Queensland side and was invited to play for the world XVIII at the under-16 championships in Sydney. Aliir has been named in the West Australian under-18 state squad, and hopes he'll get to play in the national championships that start at the end of May. Aliir was seven when he moved to Australia, after being born in a refugee camp in Kenya that he struggles to remember, other than how big his family was, how there were always people around. He was very young when his father died in a car accident, and has come to understand how hard it must have been for her to bring up him, his four brothers and sisters in a new country. Credit: Janie Barrett But Aliir told The Age and Sydney Morning Herald he had been briefed on the explosive issue and said he hoped football clubs at all levels would be better off after what had transpired. [4], After being overlooked in the 2012 AFL draft, Aliir made the decision to relocate to Perth to live with his family. "The camp provided the bare necessities of food and shelter, but sports equipment was unimaginable. But being back around his family - and part of an expanded family - has helped too. To the boys' surprise they realised they were first cousins; their mothers were sisters who had not seen each other in many years. Aliir lived in a Kenyan refugee camp from age three after his mother fled war-torn Sudan. [1] Within a few years, he had made the Queensland side and was invited to play for the world XVIII at the under-16 championships in Sydney. Both of us went to Sydney to play football for this team, and at first we were strangers,'' said Aliir. After learning to kick a football at Kedron State High School in Brisbane, he was invited by a friend to play Australian rules football for the Aspley Hornets when he was 14-year-old. “I didn’t know anything when I came here as a kid. Aliir says he's got awesome support from his family, telling Triple J, "my mum, she chats to her brothers back home but I don’t think anyone will know AFL. Aliir the pioneer. Aliir and his friends would use strips of old clothing as a football. [3] Aliir decided to remain in Brisbane, and that year, he made his debut in the NEAFL for Aspley. He feels it even more strongly now, just in reverse: this time, his family has helped his football game grow. The family reunited from Brisbane to Perth. ''It's the same sort of thing,'' he said. He is rookie list material now, and has time to become even more than that. [3], In 2012, Aliir's mother, brothers and sisters moved to Perth to reunite with extended family. Foster can't believe the amount of time he always seems to have, and how rapid his improvement has been. He has come to enjoy spoiling almost as much as taking a big mark - almost. Heading into the 2016 AFL season, Aliir was in line to take over from Ted Richards in Sydney's defence.[9]. 2. Three of them live in Africa: Akolda and another pair of brothers, Dombia and Aliir. [13], Aliir is the cousin of Matur Maker who plays for the Rio Grande Valley Vipers of the NBA G League and NBA player Thon Maker, who currently plays for the Cleveland Cavaliers. Read his incredible journey here: https://bit.ly/395Wsa2 There he joined the East Fremantle Football Club and spent the 2013 season playing for the club's Colts team. Aliir III is on Facebook. It made me hungry because I saw it could be a good life for me. Aliir Aliir signs on Swans defender Aliir Aliir has committed to Sydney, signing a three-year contract extension that will tie him to the Club until at least the end of 2021. Aliir was born in a Kenyan refugee camp after his parents fled South Sudan and he grew up played soccer using a balloon wrapped in old clothes. Aliir knows what has made him a better footballer: getting fitter, training harder, feeling certain that he wants to make a career of it. Draft wrap: What the clubs said and the fans' take With his family settled in Queensland, Aliir only began playing football in 2009 after giving up on a promising junior basketball career. He said his family featured strongly in his decision-making process and are eagerly awaiting his arrival in Adelaide. But as soon as he started talking I knew it was true. Aliir’s parents fled the civil war in the Sudan. Aliir Aliir was 15 the first time football took him to his family. His family moved to … Anh Do and his family fled to Australia on a small fishing boat packed with 40 other refugees. Former Essendon goalsneak Fantasia and ex-Sydney defender Aliir will slot nicely into the Power's team for the Marvel Stadium clash on Sunday. He got better at it, and convinced his mother, Zainab, that if he could stay a little bit longer, live with a family, work during the week and try to get drafted, it would be worth it. His family then made the move to Australia when he was eight-years-old. The pair will be joined by … [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. Read Seattle Post Intelligencer Newspaper Archives, Jan 7, 1896, p. 5 with family history and genealogy records from seattle, washington 1888-1900. It turned out the girl was Aliir's older sister. During the journey, their boat was twice attacked by pirates. He suffered a dislocated shoulder mid-season, and was ruled out for the remainder of the year in round 16, which resulted in him missing the team's 2014 NEAFL finals campaign. Following the 2020 AFL season, Aliir was traded to Port Adelaide on a four-year deal. After learning to kick a football at Kedron State High School, he was invited by a friend to play Australian rules football for the Aspley Hornets as a 14-year-old. AFL Queensland supported him enormously, placing him with a host family and finding him a traineeship. Read now Foster moved him to defence, and Aliir has loved it there. Aliir Mayom Aliir (born 5 September 1994) is a professional Australian rules footballer playing for the Port Adelaide Football Club in the Australian Football League (AFL). The boy was born in the Kakuma camp in Kenya and spent his first eight years in its crowded confines before surviving members of the family made their way to Australia. Aliir landed at Sydney with pick 44 in the 2013 National draft becoming the first South Sudanese player to be selected in an AFL draft. Aliir's family connections were extended in bizarre circumstances when he was playing for the World Team in the under-16 national championship. Sydney Swans defender Aliir Aliir has expressed his pride for his cousin Thon Maker and his rise into the NBA after being drafted by the Milwaukee Bucks. Born in a Kenyan refugee camp to Sudanese parents, Aliir migrated to Australia with his family seven years later and settled in Brisbane. He said yes, as long as you take the mark. However, in the preliminary final, Aliir suffered a low-grade medial strain late in the first quarter of their win over Geelong. Last year was hard but now my brothers support me, and my mum's supporting me. Aliir played 16 games and averaged 16 possessions at more than 80 per cent efficiency and took the most marks (86) for the Swans reserves. [12] The Swans went on to lose the Grand Final by 22 points to the Western Bulldogs. "Family is a big thing for me, it's why we are here, it's very important," he said. TWO weeks of Playstation, Netflix and working out in a home gym was not quite how new Port Adelaide recruit Aliir Aliir pictured his first fortnight in his new home city. ''If you go for it, don't only go halfway.''. The team was on its way home from a game when Aliir mentioned to one of his teammates, a kid from Perth called Reuben, that the road tunnels in Sydney were similar to those in Brisbane, where he had grown up. ''It's just different when you have your family around you, when you have your own home. The Seattle post-intelligencer. Aliir was the first player of Sudanese heritage selected in the NAB AFL National … One of his friends from the combine, Fremantle draftee Josh Simpson, had put in a good word for him there. ''It was an amazing thing that happened. ''I only had myself to blame, because I could have trained so much harder,'' he said. Aliir was born in a Kenyan refugee camp to Sudanese parents in 1994 and immigrated to Australia seven years later. [7] Aliir had a promising debut season with the Swans reserves in the NEAFL. He is also one of 12 siblings. An icon used to represent a menu that can be toggled by interacting with this icon. [5] With East Fremantle, he was converted from a ruckman to a defender. We had so many uncles and aunties and cousins that we didn't know at all, so I'm glad to be here,'' he said. Sydney Swans defender Aliir Aliir has been traded to Port Adelaide for a future second-round pick. When they were finally rescued, his family had to spend several months in a crowded Malaysian refugee camp. His meteoric improvement continued. Aliir made his long-awaited AFL debut against the Brisbane Lions at the Gabba in Round 6, 2016. After Aliir noticed the tunnels, Reuben told him that a girl from Brisbane had been trying to contact him, believing they were related, that their families had been separated when escaping the war in Sudan. Aliir played for the Aspley Hornets, where he had started out, and kept improving. The notion of "African gangs" being a "major law and order problem", pushed by Home Affairs Minister Peter Dutton, has also affected Aliir. The injury consequently ruled him out of the Grand Final. He started in the ruck - where he had always played, the best place to learn how to track the ball - but coach Mark Foster wasn't sure he would be big enough to play there if he made it to an AFL team. He was on a bus in western Sydney, part of a junior ''world'' team, boys from around Australia and some overseas countries brought together to play in the AFL's under-16 championships three years ago. “I’ve sort of lived pretty much everywhere except the Northern Territory if I’m honest but it is nice to be closer to family,” Aliir said. Aliir's mother Zainab and Rueben's mother were sisters who were separated when fleeing the war in Sudan. Port Adelaide’s newest recruit Aliir Aliir is a trailblazer by almost any definition of the word. It helps us all, to be together.''. [2] It was during this trip that Aliir discovered he had a long-lost sister trying to contact him. His brother watches him play, Reuben has been to some games and it feels good to see his mother, estranged for so long from her family, so happy to be with them. [8], After a slow start, 2015 was another solid year of development in the NEAFL for Aliir, playing mainly as a key defender. Defender Aliir Aliir moved to the Swans this off-season. Born in a refugee camp in Kenya to South Sudanese parents, Aliir's family moved to Australia when he was eight years old, eventually settling in Brisbane. Jarrad McVeigh is out but Kieren Jack and Aliir Aliir are ba… Rohan puts family first as Aliir prepares for Swans return a… Apr 12, 10:12 am | www.theage.com.au At the age of 14 he took up Aussie rules in Brisbane playing for Aspley and two years later was picked in the Michael O’Loughlin-coached International team which played in the 2010 National Championships in Sydney. [10][11] He quickly cemented his place in the team after round 16, as he played in every match between then and the Swans' preliminary final match. Here is Perth - his mother insisted he move at the end of last year - where Aliir has been playing for the East Fremantle under-18s. Tomorrow, 12 years after leaving the NSW capital, he will return there to … I remember seeing it on TV once when I started to play and saying to my coach, 'Are you actually allowed to do that?' When Aliir Aliir’s father passed away, he had two wives. Born in a refugee camp in Kenya to South Sudanese parents, Aliir’s family moved to Australia when he was seven years old, eventually settling in Brisbane. ''It was kind of weird, because he came and hugged me, and I was thinking, 'Who is this guy?' WHEN Aliir Aliir was growing up in a refugee camp in Kenya the prospect of playing for the Sydney Swans in the AFL was as remote as flying to the moon. Aliir was still living in Brisbane last year; he stayed there after his mother, brothers and sisters had moved to Perth to reunite with the extended family they had found. But it was only after he missed out in the draft - his best was hugely exciting, but he was still learning how to play - that he realised how badly he wanted a chance in the AFL and how much harder he could and should have lunged for it. After learning to kick a football at Kedron State High School, he was invited by a friend to play Australian rules football for the Aspley Hornets as a 14-year-old. Reuben had moved to Perth with his family, after growing up in Uganda. [6], Aliir was drafted by the Sydney Swans at pick 44 in the 2013 AFL draft, becoming the first player of Sudanese heritage taken in the National Draft. The chance meeting prompted Aliir and his family to move to Perth. He started playing football when he was 14 mostly because his friends kept nagging him to try it, but he had fallen in love with the game, ''with the feeling you get when you fly up and take a speccy. Aliir Aliir, with siblings David, Piath, Atong and Dombia in Perth, is determined to go all-out to get himself drafted by an AFL club.Credit:Tony Ashby. "For Aliir, his family and 150,000 other men, women and children, Kakuma refugee camp was their home," Turnbull said in his address. He can run, he can use his skills, and he can push forward at times. ''It made me want to work on everything - do more extras, more gym, more everything. “For Aliir, his family, and 150,000 other men, women, and children, Kakuma refugee camp was their home. Aliir remained in Brisbane and soon found himself playing senior footy for the Hornets. We went from just talking on the bus to hugging each other, being family, and it was a good feeling … to know that there were people out there, that I had a family that was bigger than I knew.''. It created a unique family tree for the man who constantly wears his national colours. Aliir was seven when he moved to Australia, after being born in a refugee camp in Kenya that he struggles to remember, other than how big his family was, how there were always people around. Born in a refugee camp in Kenya to South Sudanese parents, Aliir's family moved to Australia when he was eight years old, eventually settling in Brisbane. He had a good season, doing well enough to get looked at by recruiters and being invited to the end-of-season draft combine. Reuben had moved to Perth with his family, after growing up in Uganda. He formerly played for the Sydney Swans. I keep wishing I could go back into the past, go back to last year and change it, but I know a lot more about I have to do now. So I took that as a green light.''. But the foreign sport and weird-shaped ball will always be somewhat of a mystery to Zainab, who could never have dreamed her son would be making a name for himself on such a grand stage when the family fled war-torn Sudan for a new life in Australia in 2003. Aliir made his mark as a ruckman in 2012 while playing for the Hornets and the Queensland Under-18 Scorpions. I've been thinking about it ever since I moved over here.''. Aliir’s dad had two wives at the same time, a common occurrence in their culture. Aliir Aliir, with siblings David, Piath, Atong and Dombia in Perth, is determined to go all-out to get himself drafted by an AFL club. When Aliir Aliir first arrived in Australia, Sydney was where his family called home. Half a dozen matches into Aliir Aliir’s AFL career, his mother is finally starting to get her head around the basics of the game. It means Aliir has two mums – Zainab in Perth and Amer in Canberra – and he is close to both sides of his family. It was during this trip that Aliir discovered he had a long-lost sister trying to c… Family plays an important part in Aliir's life As one of six children, family plays an important part in Aliir's life. 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Born in a Kenyan refugee camp to South Sudanese parents, Aliir has also been vilified on the field in junior football.
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