Stan Alves Receives OAM

[TimeToShineFellas]

onya Stan.......

http://www.realfooty.com.au/news/news/s ... 71446.html

STAN Alves has been awarded the Order of Australia Medal for service to
Australian Rules football as a player, coach and commentator, and to the community as a supporter ofcharitable organisations.

Alves basked in stardom as a footballer and enjoys still a profile in Melbourne as a commentator on the winter game. His relationship with the code at the highest level, be it as a wingman with Melbourne and North Melbourne in the '60s and '70s, coach of St Kilda in the '90s or contemporary radio pundit, is into its fifth decade.

Among the many joys the game has offered him, it could be said the most valuable is the understanding that little in life is achieved alone.

"Footy, as a player, is pretty much all about you and it's not until you come to the end, when you reflect on your career, that you realise that without the help of other people, lots of good and talented people, it wouldn't have happened," Alves says. "I'd like to think that if I've made a contribution, it has been to help other people help other people; that in some small way I've encouraged some good and already committed people to succeed in what they have been doing."

Those Alves has helped, and continues to, include the Sacred Heart Mission, the Christie Centre, which provides training and support for people with intellectual disabilities, the Bayside youth mentoring program and the Barwon bereavement service. Which is why the 61-year-old's Australia Day recognition is as much for service to the community as to football.

"I'm humbled and very proud. It's an Australian honour and I'm a proud Australian," Alves says. "But whatever I have given was never for me and that's why I will think of the award as recognition for the people who roll their sleeves up in the field."

[saint66au]

Lindsay Fox also recieved a Companion of the Order of Australia..

http://www.news.com.au/heraldsun/story/ ... 93,00.html

[esaint66]

both legends for the saints. onya boys

[saintspremiers]

Well done Stanley....you were an awesome coach & didn't need all the GT rhetoric to fire the boys up either!

Congrats to Fox also.....plus I'm warming to his Hastings proposal also.

[dcstkfc]

Glad for both of them, but especially Stan, a truly inspirational figure, who is an amazingly approachable and friendly guy, and a great analyst of the game on ABC Radio.

Good to hear