Millions of high-quality images, video, and music options await you. He was elected by the board of directors at the end of the 2003 season, taking over from the outgoing CEO Wayne Jackson. "He spoke about where the game had been 100 years ago. The defeat was the turning point in the Swans' season, with the Swans losing only two more home-and-away games for the season, both by single-figure margins and eventually winning the 2005 Premiership. "Clearly, we've had great opportunities because of what our parents did for us," says Demetriou. Andrew Demetriou. What he lacks in celebrity style, however, he makes up for in knowledge. Organise, control, distribute, and measure all of your digital content. I always put the players first: Andrew Demetriou. He was practising the delicate art, so valued by Australians, of high achievement without visible effort. Demetriou currently leads a great life - great job, great family, great health etc. "We are living in an age of scrutiny that we've never experienced before and it's not just football. As the AFL's most visible symbol, it can also be convenient to hate Andrew Demetriou. "I don't know about a fortune," he responds. 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". 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. He has an older brother Jim Demetriou who played senior football for Essendon in the mid-1970s. "My wife and I talk about it now, about how we try to find a balance for our children. Suddenly, he was switching teams.The irony was hardly lost on his new colleagues. This month marks a great high point in Demetriou's power. I've always done that from the day they were born.". "Yep, she let her guard down there!" We've got a factory in Brazil, one in India now. We don't have much information about He's past relationship and any previous engaged. Sydney, New South Wales, Australia. 2023 Getty Images. By the time we've got two teams there the Swans will have been playing in Sydney for 31 years. "Although he might find himself tethered to his Blackberry, Demetriou more often than not walks through the front door at 5.30pm and rolls up the sleeves when needed. David. Tania Hird, the wife of the suspended Essendon coach, has repeated the controversial claim that AFL boss Andrew Demetriou tipped off the club. 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. "Every dollar that goes to the GWS, that's a dollar less to the existing clubs or players.". WHEN you are the chief executive of the AFL you carry a big stick and you walk the corridors of power. He probably should have got into law school, but he missed that. More than anything, at all stages of his life, football has allowed Demetriou both to stand out, and to fit in. 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"What we've got is five years of data (that) shows we're doing nearly triple the number of tests, and the percentage (of those caught) is dropping. "I spend more time reading the front part of the paper rather than sport. But Demetriou, the negotiator, has talked them around. [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. "We've got players telling our doctors 'thank God, you saved me'. Just quietly: Andrew Demetriou has lost another gig. She was quite a reserved person. He lacks fanaticism. "I think anyone who has strong views about things and seeks by dint of their own strength of personality to force things through, always runs the risk of alienating people," observes Sydney Swans president Richard Collis. [18], Demetriou had a regular spot with Red Symons on Melbourne radio station ABC 774. [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. 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. So my career was teaching. It is well known, of course, that in a country already saturated by four national football competitions, giving people options in a new place means taking them from an old one. The couple tied the wedding knot in November 2021, a year after their engagement. "I remember Andrew speaking at an AFL conference a couple of years ago," recalls Swans CEO Andrew Ireland. This is true for the AFL Commission as a whole, and for Demetriou personally. A fourth daughter would be fantastic. ", "What is out there is our bread and butter. Tap into Getty Images global-scale, data-driven insights and network of over 340,000creators to create content exclusively for your brand. We're changing people's behaviour. Demetriou has a regular spot with Red Symons on Melbourne radio station ABC 774. 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. Then there's Purebaby, to add a bit of fun. Back in his playing days - 106 games for North Melbourne and Hawthorn - fitness came naturally. It was all give, it was incredible giving. Historically, in fact, it's tried to go even further. In 2008, Demetriou earned an annual salary of $1.4 million, making him the highest paid administrator or player then employed by the AFL. Lead commercial strategy and business development, major event partnerships, production and venue hire for Carriageworks, Australia's largest multi-arts organisation. One of the more significant challenges he has faced was his first wife died of cancer in 1999. I don't begrudge that at all. But should his long-serving deputy, who knocked back the NRL job in early 2013, fail to succeed him then McLachlan too would leave. Development of Carriageworks' commercial and major events programs to expand our . "But I really can't fault him. Then there's a long silence, during which he appears to be considering weighty matters of national significance. Of course, despite all the tearing of hair and gnashing of teeth, the NRL and the Australian Rugby Union (ARU) have been stealing each other's players for years. "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.' Having been directed by the commission to groom a successor, Demetriou has achieved that in his deputy Gillon McLachlan, who impressed the AFL board when he took over the reins during Demetrious long service leave of 2012. Andrew Demetriou at Monday's announcement.Credit:Penny Stephens. He may even, say several of his friends, end up at Lake Como. "I think the task is absolutely massive," says Ireland. [citation needed] During the 2013 Finals Series he also co-hosted Talking Footy for the Seven Network. It was that meeting that convinced Karmichael that he should move to AFL.". . The family was close, and Demetriou grew up conscious of his parents' love, sacrifice and work ethic. "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. "Castle Hill, Baulkham Hills, Pennant Hills: it's an upper-middle-class socio-economic group they want. When he told his children on Sunday night he was stepping down their first question was whether they could still go to the football. Andrew Demetriou and wife Symone Demetriou arrive for the 2006 AFL Brownlow Medal Dinner at Crown Casino September 25, 2006 in Melbourne, Australia. But his mother went only once, to the MCG for a final against Hawthorn in 1982. Demetriou insists that the policy, which forces two-time offenders into rehabilitation before any suspension, is working. He was awarded the University's Distinguished Alumni Award in 2009 and a Doctor of Letters (honoris causa) in 2015 in recognition of his outstanding contributions to sport management and to Australian society through his leadership and support of important social issues, and currently serves as an Adjunct Professor. 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 He's not intimidated by power, perhaps because he enjoys it too much, perhaps he knows the truth about bullies. I remember that really clearly, and a great photograph of (coach) John Kennedy hugging Schimmer who was spent, just spent. 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. What's next for AFL's most powerful man Andrew Demetriou. He is from Australian. He's revolutionised the code's response to illicit drug use; initiated a policy to improve the treatment of women; allowed free movement of uncontracted, end-of-term players between clubs; and supported some of the strongest anti-discrimination policies in international sport. "Expansion is going to make things much tougher for clubs in the short term," says Gale, speaking as Richmond CEO. Thu 11 Feb 2021 06.27 EST First published on Thu 11 Feb 2021 02.37 EST. [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. Business was booming, but romance, he told friends, was over. "Well, nobody said anything about my mother, thank God. " Red Symons recalls. We run a football code. 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. I think there's an expectation that they are but some of them are just young men who make some silly decisions some of the time." "It's an amazing game," he says, smiling. But Demetriou became close to tears when referring to the football family and the people in the game. At this point in time, no one knows if Andrew Demetriou can make the AFL expansion work. 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. I'm very outspoken. "It's true," he says now. Demetriou, in fact, was better at most things than most people. "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). Two years later, Demetriou had begun to learn his lesson. ""If you started with a blank piece of paper you wouldn't have 10 teams in Melbourne. In fact, it was not the first, but the first involving Mr Demetriou. Demetriou is the youngest son of Greek Cypriot immigrants. Demetriou is also the highest-paid executive in any code: last year he earned $2.2 million. Andrew . Wife Symone and their four children, whom he described as his greatest achievement and who all attended his farewell press conference, he said were his sunshine. "Normally, Jan's acknowledgments were succinct, formal and scrupulously alphabetical," explained her friend Peter Rose, "but this time there was a new note - a kind of relaxation - and a deliberate tribute to her second husband. Recruited from Pascoe Vale, Demetriou played for the North Melbourne Football Club as a winger between 1981 and 1987, playing 103 games and kicking 47 goals. 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 AFL's headquarters are at afl House in Melbourne's Etihad Stadium. Demetriou, for his part, was "overwhelmed" by the support he received from the footballing community after Bassett's death. Were working to restore it. "Demetriou had a cup of tea with David Gallop [head of the NRL] on the Tuesday morning," says rugby league sage Roy Masters, "and that afternoon he had Karmichael Hunt over to his Toorak home. Access the best of Getty Images with our simple subscription plan. 1988: Played three games for Hawthorn before retiring. Nor does she recall easily his number. 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. We take these people and put them into a club environment and we expect them all to behave exactly the same. "It wasn't whim. "I'm not a reader of books, which is a disgrace when it's all said and done, but I'm a prolific reader of newspapers, back to front," he says. He says the national game has a record of kicking into a stiff breeze and still scoring goals, and timing is everything: key sponsors have been bedded down until 2011, the players agreement is locked in similarly and the broadcasting rights will be re-negotiated when the country is likely pulling out of its slowdown. Crown Resorts director Andrew Demetriou has resigned from the board of the embattled gaming giant but has vowed to defend his reputation. Industrial harmony has been a cornerstone of the AFL's recent success, though there are always issues brewing. "Of that opening remark, Lindsay recalls: "It was a throwaway line, really. ", "Andrew Demetriou," wrote Bassett, "has taught me much about life.". ", "Hmmm. Demetriou maintained his involvement in Ruthinium when he moved to the AFLPA. He understands the power and responsibility of running the "people's game". 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. The AFL are incredibly good at leveraging causes into money. Her son was knocked out by Leigh Matthews and carried off. 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. "I took a decision very early on that I wanted to see them grow and help my wife," he says. But now, a sudden round of interviews granted by Demetriou poses the question of whether the corporate journeyman, who has previously headed up companies making false teeth and managing waste, might be positioning himself for life after football. About expanding into new territories. But to be truthful, I never thought I'd last long in football. "Every time we expand, we grow," says Demetriou. We're not drug experts. "Demetriou's values were sewn into his very fabric by his humble upbringing, by the work ethic and sacrifice of parents hell-bent on building a life for their children in a new land. In 2002 he married his current wife Symone, and they have three daughters and a son. [17], Demetriou has interests in factories in Brazil and India which manufacture dental products and exports them to 70 markets, including Australia. ", "He's exceptionally adept with figures," adds James Demetriou. Demetriou became emotional when he talked about those loved ones and colleagues he had lost during his time in the game's administration - his first wife Jan Bassett, mother Chrysi, former AFL . The AFL chief executive, whose successor could be named as early as May, has declared a wish to serve out the 2014 football season, demanded and received great loyalty from his staff who became emboldened themselves by a leader they regarded as fearless. Does he ever have time on his own? There's no doubt he would hate for history to say the same thing about him.". "Not many people get away with calling Andrew, Andy. "His father, nearly 80, still lives in Coburg but these days spends the winters back in Cyprus. Between 1998 and 2000, Demetriou was CEO of the AFL Players Association. Put it this way, says footy's head honcho of his current circumstances, "I've learnt more about baby wear than I thought I ever would. He was a good, though never a great, player. Have views on everything. Were sorry, this feature is currently unavailable. 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. Or, as he would put it, giving people options. "Sometimes in the exercise of that power, feathers get ruffled. The idea of expansion is also in the DNA of the AFL. He was no Trojan horse on behalf of the players, but nor did he give up on them when he assumed a role on the opposite side of the negotiating table. And the caption said something like: 'That's what it takes'. "The business is a good business. Demetriou married twice. This is what we do. [7], Demetriou has been highly influential in the AFL Commission's desire for a team to be based on the Gold Coast. "What people don't realise is that it hasn't been easy for him," says James. [19][20] Acquire Learning entered voluntary administration in May 2017, shortly after Demetriou left the company. In 2005 Demetriou criticised the Sydney Swans and then-coach Paul Roos, labelling the team's play as "unattractive" and "ugly". What followed next was his second marriage in 2002 with Symone, who is currently his wife. Andrew Demetriou was born, the youngest of four boys, in Melbourne to Greek Cypriot parents in 1961. ""Our game takes 17-year-olds from completely different backgrounds. That always amuses me. But McLachlans reputation was not enhanced when he was placed in charge of standing in judgment over Melbourne following the tanking investigation, nor by the messy completion of the Essendon negotiation. Jennifer Hageney is the first wife of Andrew Shue, an American actor with whom she has three children named Nathaniel Shue, Aiden Shue and Wyatt Shue. Andrew Demetriou knows about people yelling abuse at the footy. Former AFL chief Andrew Demetriou is a strong family man. He keeps his cards so close to his chest, I guess I should have known that the briefest glimpse of him showing an interest in a woman meant that he would marry her and have children with her.". Were sorry, this feature is currently unavailable. He pauses again, looking almost embarrassed. Andrew Demetriou.Credit:Sebastian Costanzo, "Kim Kardashian," he says suddenly. [11] This proved to be the turning point in the Swans' season, as they lost only two further home-and-away games for the season, both by single-figure margins,[12] and eventually won the premiership. If you see what he's done it becomes clear he must be ambitious, and possess a certain amount of drive. My mother, who passed away three years ago, was an incredible woman. The AFL is debt-free and soon will have "squirrelled away" a $50-million contingency.Overall, the league is unrecognisable as the once-bereft and bankrupt Victorian competition of 1985, the year the 12 original clubs handed control to an independent commission. "There's a bit of the ancestry there - a bit of the old Cypriot sitting under the tree having a glass of whatever they drink over there, watching the world go by. "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. He admits to a simple philosophy: "You should never walk away from a negotiation if one party feels dudded. Fans levelled a lot at Demetriou during his time as chief of the nation's dominant sporting code. USER IS NOT PERMITTED TO DOWNLOAD OR USE IMAGE WITHOUT PRIOR APPROVAL. Thirty-one years!" And I dare say it's the same for NRL. 'I'm just ringing to say your brother has died.' He met his second wife, Symone, then a corporate sales executive at the AFL in 2001 and they married a few years later. "Andy Demetriou" redirects here. "You've got to give it to her, she's a consistent performer. Happily ensconced in their $7-million Toorak mansion, replete with the trappings of an executive lifestyle, the Demetrious revel in life with their twins, Francesca and Alexandra, now five, and two-year-old daughter, Mattea. "I can't see another 10 years here," he says, looking around his office. And that was okay; I didn't think there was anything wrong with that. He was educated at La Trobe University, where he completed a Bachelor of Arts in 1983 and a Diploma of Education in 1984. Some ex-footballers move with the grace of movie stars. "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 gives evidence at the NSW casino inquiry on Tuesday. "Informality quickly makes way for more formal discussion on those evenings when the four business partners order in. I used to go to the races. Andrew finished his tenure with the AFL in June. Her sense of humanity, and my father's too, they were very generous and were always looking for the good in people. Initially, Andrew Demetriou worked in the industry of dental imports We pay our respect to their Elders past and present and extend that respect to all Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples today. It's the largest multicultural area in Australia. Symone and Andrew Demetriou, expecting their fourth child and partners in a babywear business. So they never saw their mothers again. "Later, Symone qualifies her husband's involvement. What might have been acceptable 10 years ago is not acceptable now. ', and she said, 'Well, he's very good. [1], Before becoming a VFL player, he worked in the dental import industry. You've got to make sure that you leave the game in better shape than when you borrowed it." "When they do get to relax, it's often in front of the TV and an episode of Desperate Housewives or Wife Swap. "That was hard. "I love my girls," he says, scooping up Mattea, who abbreviates the Greek "baba" to "bubs" when she calls him. Whatever will be will be.". "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. "Just the four of us. And all I know (about) what we did was as a game (we) always put the players first to protect the integrity of the game., When pressed later about his own level of culpability Demetriou was firmer: I do not accept any responsibility for people who seek to infiltrate the game, who inject young men with god knows what substances, to introduce substances which are abhorrent to the game and to families.. 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 was at his best when he was under the most stress and duress.". 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.' We spoil them from time to time, but we also want them to want. Says Demetriou now: "It was an incredibly powerful statement. When I bring up this dedication, Demetriou smiles - a big smile, perhaps the first of the interview. He had moved from the AFLPA to the AFL Commission in 2000 as general manager of football operations. I wish more powerful people had his attitude.". Encouraging kids and beginners to try your code is one thing; seducing mature athletes from a rival code after years of development is quite another. 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. , taking over from the AFLPA data-driven insights and network of over 340,000creators to create content for! And measure all of your digital content subscription plan, Baulkham Hills, Pennant Hills: 's. Expand our is currently his wife global-scale, data-driven insights and network of over to! 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