‘Still my hero’: Touching tributes roll in for late, great ‘Mr Football’ Ron Barassi... a ‘true giant’
“It’s really sad news – certainly not the news we wanted to get tonight,” Fox Footy’s Jason Dunstall said.“It’s a lasting legacy that he leaves.”
“Ron Barassi was constantly ahead of his time pushing for national development and a national league,” AFL chairman Richard Goyder said in his tribute to the late great. “He was fierce, challenging and determined and he loved most of all, the next contest for the ball, and watched games with an eye for the skills of the game and the courage and desire to play it well.
While Robert Walls described Barassi as the “most significant person in the lives of hundreds of footballers who played through the VFL in the ‘60s, ‘70s, ‘80s and into the ‘90s”.
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