Media treatment of anyone is not meant to be fair. Media treatment of anything or anyone is intended to encourage you to buy the media so that money goes from you to the media owners. From their point of view controversy is good.
Yes, Soccer players are better known internationally than AFL players.
18 players on the field, plus 4 interchange players. 22 total.
Each club's coach and president. Players from each club that the AFL feels have a 'chance' of winning, '+ 1s' of invited guests, other notable past winners, AFL Hall of fame members, media.
Afl players mainly wear gloves because they could get some more grip on the ball
Joel Selwood
collingwood magpies
Nearly every footballer
Soccer has clearly way more skillful players then AFL. Soccer is the most popular and the best game ever invented. To all the fans of AFL who think AFL is better than soccer just stick to the facts and you will find out which is better. For instance soccer is the most played sport and is also the most watched sport on the Earth.
Generally, yes they are good role models. There aren't as many incidents as league has but not all AFL players are perfect - look at Ben Cousins
The orginisation that formed AFL were grouped in 1897
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Approximately 11% of AFL Players are indigenous, 82 the total.*As of December 2009