Majak Daw

Majak Daw
Daw playing for North Melbourne in April 2018
Personal information
Full name Majak Daw
Date of birth (1991-03-11) 11 March 1991 (age 33)
Place of birth Khartoum, Sudan[1]
Original team(s) Western Jets (TAC Cup)
Height 195 cm (6 ft 5 in)
Weight 101 kg (223 lb)
Position(s) Forward / Ruckman / Defender
Playing career1
Years Club Games (Goals)
2011–2020 North Melbourne 54 (43)
2021–2022 Melbourne 00 0(0)
Total 54 (43)
1 Playing statistics correct to the end of round 23, 2022.
Career highlights
Sources: AFL Tables, AustralianFootball.com

Majak Daw (born 11 March 1991) is a former Australian rules footballer who played for the North Melbourne Football Club and the Melbourne Football Club in the Australian Football League (AFL).

Daw and his family in Australia are refugees from the civil wars in Sudan. Daw became the first Sudanese Australian to be drafted to an AFL club when he was contracted to North Melbourne in the 2009 AFL Draft. Daw's drafting gained international attention; it was reported by the BBC, the Voice of America and Sudan Tribune. His AFL career is to have inspired a whole generation of African Australians to take up the sport and many others who followed his career path.[2]

  1. ^ Hanlon, Peter (21 June 2009). "Out of Africa, into the team". Melbourne: The Age. Retrieved 28 February 2010.
  2. ^ Majak Daw inspires young African-born athletes to take to the field by Jonno Nash for the Courier Mail 14 July 2013

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