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Maurice Rioli Jr.
Maurice Rioli, Jr. (born 1 September 2002) is a professional Australian rules footballer who plays for the Richmond Football Club in the Australian Football League (AFL)
Rioli is the namesake and son of former Richmond and South Fremantle player and Australian Football Hall of Fame member Maurice Rioli. He grew up in Pirlangimpi on Melville Island, among the Tiwi Islands of the Northern Territory alongside relatives including his (older) nephew and eventual Richmond player Daniel Rioli.
He first attended high school at St John's Catholic College in Darwin. He was the subject to significant media attention from the age of 14, owing to his famous heritage and his special draft status with each of Richmond, Fremantle and Essendon vying for his commitment, with the first two afforded priority access under the father–son rule and the third under the AFL's Next Generation Academy rules. Rioli showed the strongest links to Richmond during his early teenage years, regularly visiting the club where his nephew Daniel Rioli was drafted in 2015.
He represented the Northern Territory as a 14-year-old at the 2017 AFL Under-16s Championships where he was a regular goalkicker. Later that year he made his senior football debut, playing for St Mary's in the Northern Territory Football League.
Rioli relocated to Melbourne in early 2018 where he boarded at Scotch College. He played football for the school that year, as well as once again representing the Territory at the Under 16s Championships.
After another summer season with St Mary's, Rioli returned to Melbourne in 2019 where he joined the squad of the Oakleigh Chargers, though would not earn a top-flight NAB League match during that his 'underage' year. Instead, he played NAB League football as part of a representative Northern Territory representative side.
For a third straight season, Rioli played for St Mary's in the 2019/20 summer and into early autumn, ahead of his final year of underage football. He played nine games in the season, with his most impressive performance coming with a best-on-ground four goals in a semi-final win, before adding one goal in St Mary's losing grand final showing the following week. That same summer he trained with the AFL squad at Richmond as part of the club's father–son program for which he would be eligible at the coming draft. Rioli intended to play school football with Scotch and with Oakleigh in the NAB League that year, but ultimately each league's season was cancelled along with the AFL Under 18 Championships as a result of public health restrictions imposed in response to the COVID-19 pandemic.
In September 2020, Rioli was one of 96 players invited to the AFL Draft Combine. Around this time he confirmed years of informal commitment, nominating for selection to Richmond under the father–son rule.
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Maurice Rioli Jr.
Maurice Rioli, Jr. (born 1 September 2002) is a professional Australian rules footballer who plays for the Richmond Football Club in the Australian Football League (AFL)
Rioli is the namesake and son of former Richmond and South Fremantle player and Australian Football Hall of Fame member Maurice Rioli. He grew up in Pirlangimpi on Melville Island, among the Tiwi Islands of the Northern Territory alongside relatives including his (older) nephew and eventual Richmond player Daniel Rioli.
He first attended high school at St John's Catholic College in Darwin. He was the subject to significant media attention from the age of 14, owing to his famous heritage and his special draft status with each of Richmond, Fremantle and Essendon vying for his commitment, with the first two afforded priority access under the father–son rule and the third under the AFL's Next Generation Academy rules. Rioli showed the strongest links to Richmond during his early teenage years, regularly visiting the club where his nephew Daniel Rioli was drafted in 2015.
He represented the Northern Territory as a 14-year-old at the 2017 AFL Under-16s Championships where he was a regular goalkicker. Later that year he made his senior football debut, playing for St Mary's in the Northern Territory Football League.
Rioli relocated to Melbourne in early 2018 where he boarded at Scotch College. He played football for the school that year, as well as once again representing the Territory at the Under 16s Championships.
After another summer season with St Mary's, Rioli returned to Melbourne in 2019 where he joined the squad of the Oakleigh Chargers, though would not earn a top-flight NAB League match during that his 'underage' year. Instead, he played NAB League football as part of a representative Northern Territory representative side.
For a third straight season, Rioli played for St Mary's in the 2019/20 summer and into early autumn, ahead of his final year of underage football. He played nine games in the season, with his most impressive performance coming with a best-on-ground four goals in a semi-final win, before adding one goal in St Mary's losing grand final showing the following week. That same summer he trained with the AFL squad at Richmond as part of the club's father–son program for which he would be eligible at the coming draft. Rioli intended to play school football with Scotch and with Oakleigh in the NAB League that year, but ultimately each league's season was cancelled along with the AFL Under 18 Championships as a result of public health restrictions imposed in response to the COVID-19 pandemic.
In September 2020, Rioli was one of 96 players invited to the AFL Draft Combine. Around this time he confirmed years of informal commitment, nominating for selection to Richmond under the father–son rule.
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