The 2024 AFL Draft is next week and thousands of footballers across the country sit with anticipation to see if they will become an AFL player.
One individual however, Haris Orfanos, is all but certain he won’t be getting drafted because he signed up as a joke between friends.
“Look to be honest, I signed up as a joke before one of my mates who is likely to get picked up because we talk about it in class all the time,” Orfanos told Neos Kosmos.
“I know I won’t get picked up because I didn’t play any footy better than the senior level this year (no representative footy).”
Despite that Orfanos said he does want to play at a high level one day but that would probably be at senior local footy or the VFL if he works hard for it.
A North Melbourne supporter, he looks up to Luke Davies-Uniacke but also want to model is footy the way Melbourne’s Christian Petracca and Collingwood’s Josh and Nick Daicos play.
The 18-year-old, who currently works at a gold course in Oakleigh South, started playing footy at five-years-old when a friend from primary school told him to come along to Auskick on a Saturday morning.
The reason he went along? To get out of going to Greek school.
Maybe something his yiayia wouldn’t have been too happy with, who is why Orfanos agreed to have a story written about it him, as she would “love it”.
