Robbie Ahmat
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Robert "Robbie" AhMat (born 19 July 1977) is a former
Australian rules football Australian football, also called Australian rules football or Aussie rules, or more simply football or footy, is a contact sport played between two teams of 18 players on an Australian rules football playing field, oval field, often a modified ...
er. His ancestors were Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islanders. Ahmat's cousins are Matthew Ahmat (Brisbane/Sydney), Andrew McLeod (Adelaide) and Nakia Cockatoo (Geelong). Ahmat was the second Aboriginal person to play for
Collingwood Football Club The Collingwood Football Club, nicknamed the Magpies or colloquially the Pies, is a professional Australian rules football club based in Melbourne, Victoria that competes in the Australian Football League (AFL), the sport's elite competition. ...
, after Wally Lovett played a few games in the early 1980s. After being delisted from the AFL, he joined
South Australian National Football League The South Australian National Football League, or SANFL ( or ''S-A-N-F-L''), is an Australian rules football league based in the Australian state of South Australia. It is also the state's sports governing body, governing body for the sport. ...
club Norwood for two seasons and kicked 13 goals.


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* * 1977 births Living people Indigenous Australian players of Australian rules football Sydney Swans players Collingwood Football Club players Darwin Football Club players Australian people of Malaysian descent Australian people of Malay descent Nightcliff Football Club players Australian rules footballers from Darwin, Northern Territory 20th-century Australian sportsmen {{AFL-bio-1970s-stub