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
Nakia Cockatoo ( ; born 23 October 1996) is a former professional Australian rules footballer who played for the Brisbane Lions and Geelong in the Australian Football League (AFL).
Early life
Cockatoo was born in the Northern Territory into a ...
(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
Wally Lovett (born 15 December 1961) is an indigenous former Australian rules football player who played in the Victorian Football League (VFL) in 1982 for Collingwood and in 1983 and 1984 for Richmond
Richmond most often refers to:
* Richmo ...
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.
References
External links
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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
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