Getting into professional football shouldn’t be as tough as it is for some Indigenous athletes, and Football Federation Australia (FFA) admits it hasn’t done enough to help them, particularly those living in remote areas.
For Wiradjuri and Yorta Yorta woman Jada Whyman, it took her whole family to help make her career as a goalkeeper happen.
Jada, her mother, stepfather and three siblings up and left their home in Wagga Wagga, NSW, to live with a relative in Canberra so she could attend a goalkeeping academy there when she was 13.
It worked for a while, but the overcrowded situation…
