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Speaker 1: In some wonderful news, an experienced operator who spent more

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Speaker 1: than a decade at Arsenal FC and across Australian football

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Speaker 1: has been announced as a new Football and t chief executive.

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Speaker 1: Jamie Monteeth is set to start in the role later

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Speaker 1: this month after Bruce Stalleder's departure in late January. Now,

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Speaker 1: Jamie joins me on the line. Good morning to.

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Speaker 2: You, Jamie, morning team. How are we?

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Speaker 1: Yeah? Really well, wonderful to have you on the show. Now, Jamie,

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Speaker 1: what's your reaction or what was your reaction when you

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Speaker 1: found out that you were appointed to the Northern Territory's

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Speaker 1: top role for soccer.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, look, I was super excited and obviously going for

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Speaker 2: the role and been up in the territory for last

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Speaker 2: two and a half years running various programs in the

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Speaker 2: community to actually kind of get the opportunity to lead

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Speaker 2: the way for the next foreseeable future. It was extremely

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Speaker 2: exciting and you know, from my perspective and the family perspective,

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Speaker 2: which you can't wait to get started and get up there.

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Speaker 1: How good. So where have you been doing the other

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Speaker 1: program in the Northern Territory currently?

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Speaker 2: So? Yeah, look, we've been all over the NT to

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Speaker 2: be honest for Alice Springs. Just pre Christmas, myself and

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Speaker 2: a colleague of mine, we were over in a Tee

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Speaker 2: Islands running a program FISA for schools which allowed us

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Speaker 2: to go into remote communities there work as school teachers,

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Speaker 2: get them up the skill, but more importantly leave some

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Speaker 2: really really good resources behind for kids that you don't

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Speaker 2: necessarily get the opportunity to play the game or have

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Speaker 2: the opportunity to be engaged in our game. We weren't

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Speaker 2: able to give them all football, so you know, it's

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Speaker 2: amazing to see on the ovals there rather than the

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Speaker 2: board that they used to having a round ball kicked

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Speaker 2: around was just yeah, just amazing.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, you spot on like a lot of the in community,

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Speaker 1: a lot of the young kids in community, they're used

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Speaker 1: to playing AFL and other sort of foot codes of footy,

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Speaker 1: but wonderful to see them playing football with the round

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Speaker 1: ball for something different.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, unbelievable.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, Hey, tell me a little bit more about some

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Speaker 1: of the other experience. I understand that you were with

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Speaker 1: Arsenal FC for more than a decade.

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Speaker 2: Yeah. Look for me personally in the UK football's life

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Speaker 2: and I was lucky enough for my house was a

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Speaker 2: stone fly away from the old Highbury Stadium, So an

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Speaker 2: Arsenal fan moved into their youth development ranks and yeah,

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Speaker 2: worked all globally. I was lucky enough to travel to

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Speaker 2: over forty two countries I counted with Arsenal Football Club

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Speaker 2: spreading the world game. So yeah, well versed in the

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Speaker 2: Arsenal Football Club, but also worldwide as well.

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Speaker 1: And so what are you hoping to really bring to

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Speaker 1: the role here in the Northern Territory when you do

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Speaker 1: step into the chief executive job look at it.

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Speaker 2: For me personally, it's to ensure that our competitions that

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Speaker 2: were currently running obviously one to the best of their capability,

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Speaker 2: but also there's so much opportunity in the n I mean,

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Speaker 2: young people are so athletic up there. It's about creating

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Speaker 2: more pathways for elite athletes, but also looking at the

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Speaker 2: grassroots just getting more people involved as much as we

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Speaker 2: possibly can, whether that be in school programs, club programs,

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Speaker 2: and certainly again one of my main objectives in the

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Speaker 2: next twelve month an is to try and get out

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Speaker 2: to as many communities we possibly can again just to

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Speaker 2: get the World Game into kids that potentially haven't had

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Speaker 2: the opportunity to do so historically and hopefully just grow

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Speaker 2: the game from there.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, I think you're spot on. You know, wonderful to

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Speaker 1: see the participation that we do currently see as well

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Speaker 1: when it comes to football. I know, like I look,

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Speaker 1: I'm at lots of different sports all the time, and

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Speaker 1: the point that you touched on there in terms of pathways,

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Speaker 1: I think that's a really important one. When you look

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Speaker 1: at some of the other sports that we do have

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Speaker 1: in the NT, things like AFL, they do it really

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Speaker 1: well in terms of their being pathways that are pretty

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Speaker 1: much exactly the same for girls or boys, doesn't matter

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Speaker 1: what gender you are. So I think it'll be wonderful

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Speaker 1: to see you know, some of those pathways develop for

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Speaker 1: our territory children.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, look at that. That's one of the big things

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Speaker 2: for us is to make sure our talent is in

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Speaker 2: the shop window to ensure that they see everybody boys, girls,

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Speaker 2: you know that there is an opportunity to reach the

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Speaker 2: likes of the matildas and the soccer rules, et cetera.

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Speaker 2: And we were really fortunate this week where Raelia brought

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Speaker 2: up David Williams at Perth Glory at the moment, who's

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Speaker 2: a ex Soccero, and we had jem and Simon's as

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Speaker 2: well Ex Matilda obviously visiting some clubs there as well.

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Speaker 2: So hopefully that kind of lights of firing some young

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Speaker 2: people that the pathway is there and available for kids

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Speaker 2: of it. We as an organization need to make sure

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Speaker 2: that that's clear and obviously we support our athletes the

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Speaker 2: best of course we can.

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Speaker 1: Oh well, Jamie, So first day in the role March

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Speaker 1: twenty four, is that right? Yeah?

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Speaker 2: Correct, Monday, March and twenty fourth. Can't wait. I wish

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Speaker 2: it was tomorrow, but unfortunately it's not.

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Speaker 1: Oh good on you mate. We look forward to catching

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Speaker 1: up with you again in the near future. Thanks so

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Speaker 1: much for your time this morning.

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Speaker 2: Cheers team appreciate it.

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Speaker 1: Thank you,