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Josh Addo-Carr

Joshua Addo-Carr (born 28 July 1995), nicknamed "The Foxx", is an Australian professional rugby league footballer who plays as a winger for the Parramatta Eels in the National Rugby League and Australia at international level. Addo-Carr is a dual premiership winner 2017 and 2020 with the Melbourne Storm and 2021 World Cup winner.

He began his career with the Wests Tigers in the NRL. Addo-Carr won the 2017 and the 2020 NRL Premiership with the Storm. At representative level he has played for the Indigenous All Stars, NSW City and helped New South Wales win the 2018 State of Origin in his Origin debut series. He is known as one of the fastest players in the NRL.

Addo-Carr was born in Blacktown, New South Wales, Australia, and is of Aboriginal descent from Gunggandji, Birrbay and Wiradjuri people.

Addo-Carr first picked up a football playing for the Doonside Roos as a three-year-old, before his family moved to Earlwood, New South Wales, where he began playing rugby league for the Earlwood Saints.

Addo-Carr attended Matraville Sports High School and played his junior rugby league for the La Perouse Panthers and Moore Park. In 2012, Addo-Carr played with the South Sydney Rabbitohs SG Ball team before being released due to an off-field incident. He was then signed by the Cronulla Sharks.[citation needed]

Addo-Carr is the grandson of Australian former boxer, Wally Carr.

In 2014 and 2015, Addo-Carr played for the Cronulla Sharks' National Youth Competition team where he scored 28 tries in 44 matches. On 23 September 2015, he signed a one-year contract with the Wests Tigers starting in 2016.

In Round 7, Addo-Carr made his NRL debut for the Wests Tigers against the Melbourne Storm, scoring a try. Coincidentally, Suliasi Vunivalu made his debut on that same day opposite Addo-Carr for the Storm, also scoring a try on debut, Vunivalu would go on to be Addo-Carr's wing partner during his tenure at the Melbourne-based club.

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