Australian rules football legend Ron Barassi will be honoured with a state memorial, Victorian Premier Daniel Andrews has confirmed.
died on Saturday at the age of 87Mr Andrews announced on Monday that Barassi's family had accepted an offer from the state government for the state memorial.
In radio interview, Mr Andrews described Barassi as the"father of modern football... the sort of football that we love and are passionate about today"."Like you look at old tapes, and it's not to be critical of that style of football, but it's sort of unrecognisable in some ways," he told ABC Radio Melbourne's Raf Epstein.
"I met him on a number of occasions. thoroughly decent and wise and giving. Like he'd sit and talk to people and you'd just listen and soak it all up. Throughout his career, Barassi played 204 games for Melbourne - winning six premierships in the process - and 49 games for Carlton.As a coach, Barassi led Carlton to premierships in 1968 and 1970, before delivering North Melbourne two flags in 1975 and 1977. He also coached Sydney from 1993 to 1995.
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