Demetriou remains a shareholder and board member. Ben Buckley, his teammate at North Melbourne, later his No. And some suggested a life in politics back in 2005, when he openly questioned whether Australia had become mean-spirited compared to the optimistic country that welcomed his parents in the 1950s, challenging directly the Howard Government's tough asylum-seeker laws in the wake of the Tampa incident. He's not intimidated by power, perhaps because he enjoys it too much, perhaps he knows the truth about bullies. MELBOURNE, AUSTRALIA - SEPTEMBER 25: AFL CEO Andrew Demetriou and wife Symone Demetriou arrive for the 2006 AFL Brownlow Medal Dinner at Crown Casino September 25, 2006 in Melbourne, Australia. [13], Seven years later, Demetriou praised the Swans for their new attacking style of play under second-year coach John Longmire and rated them as serious contenders for the premiership. Michael Warner and Ashley Argoon 5 min read December 12, 2013 - 5:27PM HeraldSun Then there's a long silence, during which he appears to be considering weighty matters of national significance. It had got a lot easier by the time Andrew went through - his cohort was that big '60s influx of migrants - but I know he copped it on the footy field. Demetriou's tastes are eclectic if nothing else. His first wife died in 1999. [8] North Melbourne rejected that offer and, in January 2008, the AFL chairman, Mike Fitzpatrick and Demetriou announced that the Gold Coast Football Club would enter the AFL in 2011. ", "But it's completely unacceptable today. JANE BALLANTYNE Jokes about people's mothers hurt people!". The game will need all the money it can get. WHEN you are the chief executive of the AFL you carry a big stick and you walk the corridors of power. "Both he and Jan loved travelling; I can remember him sitting in cafes in Europe, devouring the newspapers front to back, just as he does here.". "I don't think we want to get Andrew involved in the grow suits. But that's part of the game. The new general manager of football operations was stunned, to say the least. He still has this quality of que sera sera effortlessness, say those close to him. Demetriou became emotional when he talked about those loved ones and colleagues he had lost during his time in the games administration - his first wife Jan Bassett, mother Chrysi, former AFL chairman Ron Evans, ground operations boss Jill Lindsay and Jim Stynes. He was at his best when he was under the most stress and duress.". He has treated us fairly and with respect and I admire that. He should not be content with just doing better than the other children.". "History will tell.". ", Finally - and perhaps most importantly - he believes (or persuades others he believes) that no deal is worth dying for. As the AFL's most visible symbol, it can also be convenient to hate Andrew Demetriou. It's convenient to hate the AFL.". The Getty Images design is a trademark of Getty Images. One of the more significant challenges he has faced was his first wife died of cancer in 1999. He is a member of famous Player with the age 61 years old group. "The Demetrious pay a personal trainer to help keep them in shape - "boxing and all that sort of stuff two or three times a week" - but an Achilles injury has hindered Demetriou's recent progress. "I took a decision very early on that I wanted to see them grow and help my wife," he says. "She's all right.". When I bring up this dedication, Demetriou smiles - a big smile, perhaps the first of the interview. We manufacture and distribute false teeth. So he was really pointing out missed opportunities. "We've got players telling our doctors 'thank God, you saved me'. "I went to uni, did arts and a dip ed, majored in legal studies and politics, and got a job teaching year 12 politics. Andrew Demetriou timeline: achievements and controversies From North Melbourne winger to departing CEO: Andrew Demetriou's 33 years in the AFL Mar 2, 2014, 3:54pm 1981: MADE his VFL debut with North Melbourne, playing 103 games with the club between 1981 and 1987. [19][20] Acquire Learning entered voluntary administration in May 2017, shortly after Demetriou left the company. "But I really can't fault him. David. "It's impossible for me to answer that, other than the fact that when you're dealing with terminal illness, and you've got a very limited time, you change your perspective on many things. He respected me as somebody in an organisation. "I'm forever reading for work, reports and documents and whatever. Demetriou, for his part, was "overwhelmed" by the support he received from the footballing community after Bassett's death. The day of our interview, he leaves work early to go to his four-year-old daughter's birthday party "at one of those Japanese restaurants where they throw things in the air". For Demetriou, Australian rules will always be the game that embraced him and gave him social and professional status; that supported him during a great tragedy in his life. But should his long-serving deputy, who knocked back the NRL job in early 2013, fail to succeed him then McLachlan too would leave. Back in his playing days - 106 games for North Melbourne and Hawthorn - fitness came naturally. We recommend you to check the complete list of Famous People born on 14 April. "Every time we expand, we grow," says Demetriou. "We've been around for 150 years, and we understand that for a lot of our supporters, their club is in their DNA, their bloodlines. Demetriou played 103 games for the North Melbourne Football Club between 1981 and 1987, finishing his playing career with a three-game stint for Hawthorn in 1988. And, he adds, "You've got to be fair. I'm the little chairman. If you asked him what his future with the AFL is, he would say, 'Oh, I'll do it for five years and then I'll retire to Lake Como.' "I don't stress about these things," says Demetriou. We have estimated " Red Symons recalls. "He'll get massive kudos, or massive condemnation out of it," says Richard Hinds. He's also almost tripled the AFL's annual turnover, partly via a record-breaking $780-million media rights deal in 2006. "It doesn't make this better," he said at the time, "but it has helped me through a very difficult period. He looks momentarily uncomfortable, as if he's never thought about it. Eventually, the Australian arm bought out its Italian parent. Andrew Demetriou was born on 14 April, 1961 in Australian, is an Australian rules footballer, born 1961. "Our role is minimal. "To be frank, if the clubs had had their way, there'd be no national expansion," says Gale. Acquire Learning entered voluntary administration in May 2017, shortly after Demetriou left the company. Demetriou is also the highest-paid executive in any code: last year he earned $2.2 million. They've just gone to Blacktown because they think they can get some money from the government.". She was quite a reserved person. Streamline your workflow with our best-in-class digital asset management system. Two years later, Demetriou had begun to learn his lesson. There has been much talk of the $200-million war chest that will fund the expansion, and those on the inside say it will take all this and more. "I don't think the AFL has the slightest interest in the community of western Sydney," says Roy Masters. Andrew Demetriou (born 14 April 1961) is an Australian businessman, sports administrator, and former Australian rules football player who was chief executive officer (CEO) of the Australian Football League (AFL) up to June 2014. "I thought, 'Bloody hell, what have I walked into here? "His favourite holiday destination was St Moritz, and 'classical' was his favourite music," Buckley laughs. Ryan Edwards and his wife, Mackenzie, have officially called it quits amid their ongoing legal issues. "Andrew Demetriou was born, the youngest of four boys, in Melbourne to Greek Cypriot parents in 1961. is 182cm (6ft 0in) and Weight 80kg (176lb). What's next for AFL's most powerful man Andrew Demetriou. It's a ridiculous expectation. Suddenly, he was switching teams.The irony was hardly lost on his new colleagues. To many league supporters, it was the defection of top players Israel Folau and Karmichael Hunt - both State of Origin and international stars - that made what had been a largely theoretical idea of an 18-team AFL suddenly intensely personal. "Andrew plays the great game at all times," his friend Red Symons once said. It never affected me.". Along the way, he also chaired Baxter, a waste management company that was eventually sold to a bigger outfit. But money isn't the whole story. [18], Demetriou had a regular spot with Red Symons on Melbourne radio station ABC 774. There's no doubt he would hate for history to say the same thing about him.". And, of course, it was Symone. She has $200 thousand as her net worth from her career as professional florist. I was lucky to have someone who understood," he recalls. 2023 Getty Images. Andrew J. Demetriou | Corporate Attorney | Los Angeles | Husch Blackwell Andrew J. Demetriou Senior Counsel Los Angeles phone: 213.356.2949 fax: 213.337.6551 email: andrew.demetriou@huschblackwell.com Overview Experience Thought Leadership Outside the Office Community Leadership Download Bio Download vCard Overview Demetriou has been a remarkable leader of Australias greatest and most successful football code. "You can't be around for 100-plus years and not be a resilient code," he continues. He was betraying the sports . He understands the power and responsibility of running the "people's game". "Now he's Mr Opera, Mr Art.". About colours. So they never saw their mothers again. Demetriou kicked two goals. He was elected by the board of directors at the end of the 2003 season, taking over from the outgoing CEO Wayne Jackson. Even as an 18-year-old, he had larger horizons. We're changing people's behaviour. "But you have to say it's very hard for any detractors to mount a really substantive case given the progress that's been made on his watch You'd have to say that at this stage the AFL is in better shape than any other football code in the country. Join 1.7 Million Subscribers Andrew Demetriou.Credit:Sebastian Costanzo, "Kim Kardashian," he says suddenly. The AFL are incredibly good at leveraging causes into money. "I don't make any decisions without everything having been thought through, chewed up, sliced, diced, looked at inside out, been criticised," he says. According to our Database, He has no children. So, these clubs are great survivors. "Sometimes in the exercise of that power, feathers get ruffled. He's convinced them that a truly national competition will benefit everyone in the long term, by bringing in more fans, giving sponsors a bigger platform, and making media rights more desirable and profitable. Even when I said to him, 'Andrew, you know, maybe now you should start to think about moving on how are you feeling? "Demetriou's somewhat feisty reputation preceded him when he landed Jackson's job, something he acknowledged tongue-in-cheek in a Melbourne Press Club speech just days after taking up his new role (and becoming a father). McLachlan also played the pivotal role in negotiations which saw the redevelopment of Adelaide Oval as an AFL venue - an achievement which will see the season launched there on Wednesday and which Demetriou described as his greatest professional effort given the degree of difficulty involving the South Australian football body, the cricket association and the state government. Seven years later though, Demetriou praised the Swans for their new attacking style of play under coach John Longmire and rated them as serious contenders for the premiership. In his role as head of the AFL Commission, he was responsible for a number of changes, including the expansion of the league from 16 to 18 teams, the restructuring of the tribunal system, and the brokering of two new television rights deals. "The business is a good business. But as the code that stands to lose the most, not only in terms of money but in historic heartland support, privately there's both frustration and cynicism within the NRL's ranks. [16], In April 2014, it was announced that Gillon McLachlan, Demetriou's then deputy, would be his successor. The entire Demetriou family lived in the two-bedroom flat attached to the shop. [17], Demetriou has interests in factories in Brazil and India which manufacture dental products and exports them to 70 markets, including Australia. If you're going to have relationships, they've got to be meaningful. In common with other older, poorer clubs, Richmond will suffer from the wealth of talented young players (usually allocated to clubs via the annual draft) and financial support being channelled into the new clubs. And Andrew's allowed me to express them. She and Andrew married soon afterwards (friends recall him saying he wished he'd done it earlier), and Bassett fought the illness for three years. "We are living in an age of scrutiny that we've never experienced before and it's not just football. Chairing several companies after his retirement from playing, he was appointed CEO of the AFL Players Association in 1998, and was responsible for negotiating a new collective bargaining agreement between the league and the players. He's there strictly for his business acumen, she insists, not his sense of kids' couture. Between 1998 and 2000, Demetriou was CEO of the AFL Players Association. "But I remember the euphoria in the rooms after. ", "What is out there is our bread and butter. And I read the form guide, which I love. Were sorry, this feature is currently unavailable. He'd had one great relationship in his life; that was all anyone could expect. They'll share a couple of pizzas, maybe have a glass of wine. He suffered heartbreak a decade ago when his first wife, the academic and historian Jan Bassett, died of cancer, but today Andrew Demetriou's life seems very much on an even keel. Were working to restore it. They're all different. Demetriou, who takes his girls to his local Auskick at weekends, where he's likely to run into Eddie McGuire and a host of footy influentials, says he's not fussed. He's a dignified man, and holds himself well: back straight, arms relaxed, briefcase swinging. We take these people and put them into a club environment and we expect them all to behave exactly the same. As head of the AFL Players' Association, the footballers' union, Demetriou had played hard ball on the way to achieving his coup de grace - the first collective agreement (involving him) for the competition's 600-plus professional players, which gave them a massive pay rise, justly recognising them as the real stars of the show. His parents, Tony and Chrysi, met in the early 1950s, married and opened Tony's Fish and Chip . "I think - and I'm sure Andrew knows this - that GWS is the biggest challenge by far that the AFL has ever bitten off. Aries. Andrew and Symone Demetriou moved there 18 months ago from Hawthorn, into a two-storey 1930s home with lap pool, cellar and five-car garage, essentially to be nearer their daughters' school. Much has been made in the past of a possible move into politics, though Demetriou has consistently denied it. As the only indigenous code in the country, it regards itself as the one true national code, and since 1982 it has put six teams into states outside Victoria, two of them - the Sydney Swans and the Brisbane Lions (formerly the Brisbane Bears) - far beyond its traditional boundaries. Andrew Demetrious long-anticipated and impeccably-timed resignation was punctuated with emotion, humour and a characteristic verbal whack when the subject of his legacy was inevitably linked with the Essendon drugs scandal. Credit: The high-profile Melbourne identity, who has been a director of the casino giant since 2015 and is chairman of Crown . Free market forces might not deem Demetriou's playing career worthy of football's pantheon - a 1985 Scanlen's card of the moustachioed player was selling for $1.99 on eBay last month - though anyone who gets to pull the boots on for more than 100 matches can't be too shabby, a record that would mark a Demetriou boy a potential father-son recruit. "Not many people get away with calling Andrew, Andy. Giving up cricket, Demetriou joined North Melbourne football club, and played 103 games as an "unobtrusive wingman" between 1981 and 1987, as well as three games for Hawthorn in 1988. The year after Bassett's death, Ben Buckley's first wife, Kim, was also diagnosed with breast cancer. Chief Andrew Demetriou and wife Symone arrive at the David Jones Summer 2006 Collections Launch on August 17, 2006 in Melbourne, Australia. I think he said there were 100 teams in South Africa, set up by people who'd followed the gold rush, and a team in Ipswich who played Melbourne. "I remember the phone ringing and my father going to a corner and being told, 'I'm just ringing to let you know your mother died,' and, 'She died four days ago and we didn't know how to tell you.' So we have a population that is very diverse, that's very proud of what it's achieved. This is in itself quite charming. "James Brayshaw, the North Melbourne chairman and media personality who crossed swords with Demetriou when the AFL was pushing hard for North to relocate to the Gold Coast, says the AFL boss can bury the hatchet if he has to. And we adopted an attitude of making the most of every day and every hour. noted some who passed including his first wife Jan and heaped love on his wife and four kids. She would have been 14 at the time of his most cherished football moment, but by then had jumped onto the bandwagon of the team that would go back-to-back that year, Essendon. Demetriou, a straight talker who supporters and critics alike recognise for his negotiating steel as much as they do for his decisiveness on policy issues, has used his CEO tenure to build on the league's expanding reputation as a force for cultural and social change, championing racial equality, cancer awareness and respect for women while putting player welfare at the forefront of league policies on pay and illicit drug use. Or, as he would put it, giving people options. In the dedication of a final book, she made an unusual reference to her husband. "The Sydney Swans went there in 1981. It's not worth it." His parents, whose fathers were both dead, had left Cyprus in 1951 and didn't return until 1983, until after their sons had completed their university studies. The mistake was made in production. Yes," says his head of communications, Brian Walsh, grinning. I'm very outspoken. Andrew Schulz's wife Emma is 27 years old as she was born on February 14, 1995. In fact, Demetriou's term as chief is almost certain to be judged on the success of the AFL's latest foray. "Those who work closely with him reckon Demetriou has achieved all of that. "It's hard at times," admits Symone. But there's something about his knees, as if he were once pigeon-toed, or injured in some way, that makes him kick out his feet as he walks. By the time we've got two teams there the Swans will have been playing in Sydney for 31 years. I'm very optimistic about what's going to happen in greater western Sydney, very optimistic. "In year 12 he had major issues with a couple of teachers who took exception to his brashness and his confidence and the way he excelled. He was practising the delicate art, so valued by Australians, of high achievement without visible effort. "He's telling the truth about that," says Don Watson. Its leafy luxury contrasts sharply with the suburban landscape of postcode 3058. People credit Bassett and her circle with helping form Demetriou culturally: there's a famous story, told by several people, of a memorable day when he astounded everyone by leaving an AFL game early to attend an Andrea Bocelli concert. What might have been acceptable 10 years ago is not acceptable now. "He's comfortable in any environment," says author and commentator Don Watson, who's known him since 1995. "If I were to believe you guys," he told the audience of journalists, "I'm a hot-tempered, loud, heavy-gambling Cypriot, prone to fly off the handle without warning. Jill Lindsay, in charge of league grounds and one of the AFL's longest-serving executives, looked Demetriou square in the eye on day one and said: "So, you're the guy who stuffed the league." I always appreciate the great obligation we've got to the game. [citation needed], He had a brief move to Hawthorn in 1988, but played only three games and kicked one goal. Demetriou was made CEO of the AFL in 2003, replacing Wayne Jackson. I want the best for those who work with me. "Andy Demetriou" redirects here. And I dare say it's the same for NRL. Business was booming, but romance, he told friends, was over. [15], Demetriou announced on 3 March 2014 that he would step down from the role as AFL CEO after eleven years, at the conclusion of the 2014 AFL season. Andrew Demetriou (born 14 April 1961) is an Australian businessman, sports administrator, and former Australian rules football player who was chief executive officer (CEO) of the Australian Football League (AFL) up to June 2014. He lacks fanaticism. Sydney won the 2012 premiership implementing a style of relentless tackling and attacking play. Andrew Demetriou: his birthday, what he did before fame, his family life, fun trivia facts, popularity rankings, and more. [citation needed], In 2008, Demetriou earned an annual salary of $1.4 million, making him the highest paid administrator or player then employed by the AFL. So my career was teaching. He also claimed that the Swans would not win a premiership with the way they were playing, and this statement was underlined when the team suffered a 43-point defeat to St Kilda in Round 10. "A bit different from the rest of us, all putting the Gold Coast and AC/DC.". "It was a case of 'winners are grinners'," she says without a hint of guilt. "When I played football," recalls James, "it was brutal, really brutal. Now, as the AFL's chief, with salary and bonus exceeding $1.5 million last year, he is the driver of the AFL Commission's greater ambition for 17th and 18th teams - for the Gold Coast (from 2011) and Sydney's sprawling west (a year later). "He was absolutely a source of help and advice.". [3] He was elected by the board of directors at the end of the 2003 season, taking over from the outgoing CEO Wayne Jackson. . Initially, Andrew Demetriou worked in the industry of dental imports Demetriou, of course, knows this very well. There's been speculation before, most famously when the now-defunct Bulletin magazine declared in late 2007 that he was about to pull the pin to spend more time with his family, even retreat to a holiday home on Italy's Lake Como. He took his first job back in football in 1997, partly so he could be at home with Bassett during her illness. He passes a few remarks about Peter Costello's criticism of Australian Football League players visiting schools, and reflects on the launch of rugby union's new Melbourne team. North Melbourne Football Club had played three home games there in 2007 and, at the conclusion of that season, Demetriou offered the club $100 million to relocate there permanently. 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