7 Carl: ‘Geez—I’m Not Too Bad at This Caper’

Abstract

Carl grew up in the northern suburbs of Melbourne where he started playing footy at five years of age in the under ten years team of the same club his father had been a member of: ‘If we actually talk about the first time I actually picked up a football … under ten’s at only the ripe age of five years.’ He joined the club just to be part of the group of boys in the neighbourhood and to mix with the older ones. Joining the under tens at five years of age meant that he did not have a lot of game time but was happy to just be part of the group and mix with the older boys: