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Max was born in Darwin but his family soon moved to A-town (a pseudonym), which is one of the larger towns in the Northern Territory with a population of approximately 10,000 and several hundred kilometres from Darwin. As a child, he enjoyed playing a wide range of sports including soccer, athletics and cricket that, he felt, were very helpful for his development into an AFL player. His memories of growing up in this community were dominated by playing sport as part of any social gathering such as at the regular family barbecues where he played with his cousins and brother, suggesting that this is where he developed the foundations for his success in footy:
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Light, R., Evans, J.R. (2018). 5 Max: ‘Dad Wanted Me to Try a Lot of Different Sports’. In: Stories of Indigenous Success in Australian Sport. Palgrave Macmillan, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-66450-7_6
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