Paul Roos pays tribute to the late Indigenous AFL player Andrew Krakouer

Andrew Krakoouer’s life was a redemption story, according to the premier coach Leage Paul Roos.

This story presents the names and images of the deceased aborigines, which have been used with the permission of their families.

Roos spoke in the ABC Daily Podcast of ABC about Krakoouer, who died in Perth of an alleged heart attack on Sunday at the age of 42.

The Western Australia Dynamic AFL Games played 137 AFL games for Collingwood and Richmond between 2001 and 2013.

But Roos said that the work that Krakoouer made out of football after a prison sentence that served at the end of the 2000s was an important element in its history.

“About three or four years ago I received some Electronic Andrew emails, we were looking to do a program in a prison together, and then Covid hit,” said Roos.

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“Believe [it’s a story] of redemption, it is really sad. I didn’t know him well, but Matty Richardson, Nathan Buckley, everyone talks very well about him, and my interactions with him were always fantastic. “

Krakoouer was excluded from Richmond at the end of 2007, returning to Perth to play for Swan’s districts in the WAFL.

The following year, he was sentenced by assault with the intention of causing bodily damage and was sentenced to four years in prison. He was released on probation in August 2009 and returned to football.

But Krakoouer’s rehabilitation entered and left the football field: he won a Wafl premiership for Swan’s districts before being collected by Collingwood and reaching a grand finale.

After a leg injury, he returned to WA to play for West Perth before retirement.

After his football career, he entered the Yokayi Footy television media program, the color of the series of its AFL jumper and special comments for Fox Footy in the AFLW.

In 2024, he co -written a book for children, My Dad’s Gone Away, who focused on the challenges for children to have a father in prison.

In the countryside, Krakoouer had an eye for great games, with three goals in a loser cause of Collingwood in the grand finale of 2011 against Geelong.

He won the AFL Year brand award in 2011 for a spectacular effort against Adelaida crows in Docklands.

Roos also referred to Krakoouer’s dominant performance in the Grand Final Wafl 2010 for Swan’s districts.

“I just read in the [WAFL] Great final, had 42 [disposals] And he kicked four or something! If they were champion data or Supercoach points, it would have been 290 points, “he said.

“That is a phenomenal, super talented action [as a player].

“[It’s] Super sad, 42 – is really sad when you read it, there is not much you can tell the family and friends that we are not thinking about everyone and the entire football community is very good to wrap their arms with people when it happens.

“[He was] A really good player and a redemption story, that is what I remember most. “

“Only a great taxpayer to his community and a great taxpayer to football in general.”