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unusual facts about junior football


Ayrshire and Renfrewshire Football League

For membership, it drew upon Junior football teams based in the south-western Scottish counties of Ayrshire and Renfrewshire.


Dyce

The area of Aberdeen has sports facilities including the local junior football team Dyce F.C who currently play in the Scottish Junior Football Association North Region and the cricket team.


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Andy Rolland

After a spell in junior football, he returned to Central Park in 1964 and remained for three seasons, before a £10,000 move to Dundee United in 1967.

Chad Jones

The younger brother of former West Coast Eagles player Brett Jones, Jones originally played for the Wembley Downs Junior Football Club.

Courtenay Dempsey

He later moved to Brisbane to play with the Kenmore Bears junior football club while also playing for his school Brisbane Boys' College.

Culter

Culter F.C., a junior football club from the village of Peterculter, Aberdeen, Scotland

Damian Squire

Squire was a Port Adelaide Magpies supporter when he was growing up in the inner-northern Adelaide suburb of Broadview but due to where he lived and played his junior football with the Broadview Tigers and Greenacres Dragons in the heart of North Adelaide's metropolitan zone (only 10 minutes from North's home Prospect Oval), he ended up playing for the Roosters in the SANFL.

Downfield

Downfield F.C., a Scottish junior football club based in the Downfield area of Dundee

Highett Football Club

The Highett Junior Football Club was established in 2001 after the Moorabbin United Junior Football Club (known as the Bears) decided to align themselves with a senior club in order to provide a developmental continuity for their young players to progress through to the open-age ranks.

Isaac Gordon

Born in Brewarrina, New South Wales, Gordon played his junior football for the Brewarrina Goo-Gars, Waratah Mayfield Cheetahs and Cessnock Goannas before being signed by the Cronulla-Sutherland Sharks.

Jimmy Bartel

After beginning his junior football in Bell Park, Bartel left to attend St. Joseph's College, where his talent for sports became evident early.

Keith Froome

Known as Keith, he was born in Armidale but grew up in Newcastle, New South Wales and played his junior football with Wests Newcastle.

Naomh Mearnóg CLG

In the late 1920s, there was a temporary break-up of Innisfails' junior football team in Balgriffin, and as a result it was decided to form a team in Portmarnock.

Powelltown, Victoria

A relative of Charles, former West Coast Eagles defender David Wirrpanda also played junior football with the Powelltown Demons.

Robbie Rochow

Born in Maitland, New South Wales, Rochow played his junior football for the East Maitland Griffins before graduating to first-grade for the Kurri Kurri Bulldogs.

Samuel Kuffour

Born in Kumasi, Kuffour was brought to Europe by Torino F.C. in 1991 aged just 15, after playing junior football for local teams in his native country.

Troy Luff

He played junior football with the Cumberland Park Club before shifting with his family to Nelson Bay, New South Wales.

Waikerie, South Australia

Former Adelaide Crows captain Mark Ricciuto is from Waikerie and played his junior football with the Magpies.