Teammates’ great donation

A LEONGATHA Parrots’ Under 18s footballer has donated a car which he received as a prize to his teammate.
Brendan Tomada was awarded the keys to the Holden Commodore at the club’s presentation night on Friday but he passed them over to teammate Broderic Mead-Ameri.

Thanks mate!: Brendan Tomada, left, hands over the keys to the prize car to Broderic Mead-Ameri.

The car was originally a prize for committed members of the thirds side. Every time a player attended training or a club function they were awarded with a raffle ticket in the draw.
“The footy boys had a meeting and we just decided that Brod deserved it more than the rest of us,” Tomada told The Star.
Mead-Ameri said this act of kindness means a lot to him.
“It means the world that the boys actually care for me and I know they do,” he said.
“It also means I will be a taxi for them now.”
The young footballer has had a rough upbringing and that is the reason his teammates felt it was right that Mead-Ameri deserves the car.
“Where I came up is not too great, my family past and all that, I just sort of forget it and have tried to move on,” he said.
“That’s why I like football. It’s like an escape and a second family and they have proven it through this.”
Mead-Ameri has played football for two years with the Parrots.
Club president Mal Mackie said that this was an unbelievable display of mateship.
“It’s the type of culture we are building within the club,” he said.
“It is fantastic that the Under 18s thought of this by themselves.
“And the club will be putting another car up for grabs in the Under 18s next year.”

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Posted by Jacob De Kunder on Oct 1 2013. Filed under Featured, Sport. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0. You can leave a response or trackback to this entry