Adam Goodes (born 8 January 1980 in Wallaroo, South Australia) is an Australian rules football player and dual Brownlow Medal winner who plays for the Sydney Swans. Goodes holds an elite place in AFL/VFL history as a dual Brownlow Medallist, premiership player and member of the Indigenous Team of the Century. Goodes is well known for his indigenous Australian heritage, and is prominently involved and associated with several indigenous sport and c...
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Adam Goodes (born 8 January 1980 in Wallaroo, South Australia) is an Australian rules football player and dual Brownlow Medal winner who plays for the Sydney Swans. Goodes holds an elite place in AFL/VFL history as a dual Brownlow Medallist, premiership player and member of the Indigenous Team of the Century. Goodes is well known for his indigenous Australian heritage, and is prominently involved and associated with several indigenous sport and community programs.
He was born in Wallaroo, to Lisa May (a Narungga child with Adnyamathanha ancestry who was one of the stolen generation in South Australia and raised by an English family) and Graham Goodes, with siblings Jake and Brett. His parents were separated when he was four and his father moved to Queensland while Goodes moved between Wallaroo and Adelaide (in South Australia) and Merbein (in Victoria) with his mother. While at Merbein, Adam attended primary school at Merbein West Primary School, and it was there that he began to play...
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