{"id":1376,"date":"2025-01-17T14:28:20","date_gmt":"2025-01-17T14:28:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/aflireland.ie\/?page_id=1376"},"modified":"2025-01-17T14:28:21","modified_gmt":"2025-01-17T14:28:21","slug":"afl-explained","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/aflireland.ie\/index.php\/afl-explained\/","title":{"rendered":"AFL Explained"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">What is AFL?<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>AFL stands for\u00a0<strong>Australian Football League<\/strong>\u00a0and the sport is commonly referred to as &#8216;Footy&#8217; or &#8216;Aussie Rules&#8217;. It is an Indigenous sport that originated in Australia and has been played for over 150 years. Australia\u2019s premier spectator sport is one of the most skilful, tough and fast-paced games in the world and played by some of the fittest athletes on the planet, which creates a unique and exciting game!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>AFL is a professional sport over in Australia and, the sport is played with an oval ball between two teams of eighteen players (men&#8217;s) and sixteen players (women&#8217;s) on a large oval-shaped field, with the aim of the game to kick the ball through the two tallest goal-posts which are set at either end of the ground.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>However you may see AFL in Europe played on smaller, rectangular grounds and with 9 players per side, but the skills of the game remain the same and the passion and enthusiasm is as prevalent as it is in Australia.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"What is AFL? Aussie Rules Explained\" width=\"1110\" height=\"624\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/XMZYZcoAcU0?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>What is AFL? AFL stands for\u00a0Australian Football League\u00a0and the sport is commonly referred to as &#8216;Footy&#8217; or &#8216;Aussie Rules&#8217;. It is an Indigenous sport that originated in Australia and has&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-1376","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/aflireland.ie\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1376","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/aflireland.ie\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/aflireland.ie\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aflireland.ie\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aflireland.ie\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1376"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/aflireland.ie\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1376\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1377,"href":"https:\/\/aflireland.ie\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1376\/revisions\/1377"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/aflireland.ie\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1376"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}