Meet the Brazilian couple playing in Australia after Rugby League World Cup appearances

[Rugby League World]

Meet two women from Brazil who gave up everything they had at home to pursue the dream of playing rugby league in Australia. IF you...

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[stookie]

Good article!

I wonder how Maria Graf is getting on. I haven't heard much this year, but looking it up she is still in Aus and playing for another Qld team.

I really hope development in Brazil kicks on, it would be depressingly familiar if it falters and burns out.

 

[unapologetic pedant]

4 hours ago, stookie said:

I wonder how Maria Graf is getting on. I haven't heard much this year, but looking it up she is still in Aus and playing for another Qld team.

Maria started for Easts in round 1 of the BMD Premiership but didn't feature again until round 9 off the interchange. Don't know whether that was due to injury or it just didn't work out. Subsequently went back to Noosa in the Sunshine Coast comp.

She was alongside Franciny Amaral in the SC squad at the 47th Battalion carnival last weekend.

 

[gingerjon]

21 hours ago, stookie said:

Good article!

I wonder how Maria Graf is getting on. I haven't heard much this year, but looking it up she is still in Aus and playing for another Qld team.

I really hope development in Brazil kicks on, it would be depressingly familiar if it falters and burns out.

 

Brazil have already been removed from the qualifiers for the next women’s World Cup. Couldn’t afford to travel following the loss of sponsorship.