{"id":331958,"date":"2023-09-18T05:55:15","date_gmt":"2023-09-18T05:55:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/?p=331958"},"modified":"2023-09-18T07:00:24","modified_gmt":"2023-09-18T07:00:24","slug":"afl-icon-barassi-to-receive-state-funeral","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/?p=331958","title":{"rendered":"AFL icon Barassi to receive state funeral"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/wwos.nine.com.au\/afl\" title=\"A\ufeffFL\" target=\"\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">A\ufeffFL<\/a> icon Ron Barassi is set to be honoured with a state funeral after <a href=\"https:\/\/wwos.nine.com.au\/afl\/news-2023-ron-barassi-dead-family-confirms-legend-career\/b616ce2b-b619-4b2c-a053-a4c9a3409b94\" title=\"his death at the weekend\" target=\"\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">his death at the weekend<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Victoria Premier Dan Andrews confirmed his offer to the Barassi family had been accepted in a statement on Monday afternoon.<\/p>\n<p>&quot;A \ufeffstate memorial to honour the extraordinary life of Ron Barassi has been accepted by his family,&quot; Andrews said in the statement.<\/p>\n<p><strong>READ MORE: <\/strong><a href=\"https:\/\/wwos.nine.com.au\/rugby\/world-cup-2023-wallabies-vs-fiji-scores-highlights-result-australia-news-match-report\/714466ec-2ba1-46d1-ae38-11f75fa9093e\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><strong>Eddie &#x27;found out&#x27; as Wallabies crash to 69-year low<\/strong><\/a><strong><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>READ MORE: <\/strong><a href=\"https:\/\/wwos.nine.com.au\/motorsport\/f1-news-2023-oscar-piastri-snub-martin-brundle-carlos-sainz-wins-singapore-grand-prix-red-bull-dominance-ends\/31987381-f239-4a9b-8eb2-03b45bb78fe0\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><strong>&#x27;Rude&#x27; F1 great blasted for &#x27;cringe&#x27; Piastri moment<\/strong><\/a><strong><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>READ MORE: <\/strong><a href=\"https:\/\/wwos.nine.com.au\/nrl\/news-the-mole-2023-melbourne-storm-craig-bellamy-jahrome-hughes-injury-preliminary-final\/d225e5ad-5064-47a5-89d2-126e85d27cb9\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><strong>&#x27;Real headache&#x27; for Bellamy as star races injury clock<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&quot;The word legend is used a lot. But nobody deserves it quite like Ron Barassi.<\/p>\n<p>&quot;He didn&#x27;t just play the game &#8211; he reshaped it.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/DanielAndrewsMP\/status\/1703636942687260960\" rel=\"nofollow\" class=\"embed-social embed-twitter\">https:\/\/twitter.com\/DanielAndrewsMP\/status\/1703636942687260960<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&quot;And how fitting that Friday night&#x27;s game was a cliffhanger between the Dees and the Blues.<\/p>\n<p>&quot;The Department of Premier and Cabinet will work with Mr Barassi&#x27;s family and state memorial details will be announced in due course.&quot;<\/p>\n<p><strong>MORE TO COME\ufeff<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div class=\"mh-excerpt\"><p>A\ufeffFL icon Ron Barassi is set to be honoured with a state funeral after his death at the weekend. Victoria Premier Dan Andrews confirmed his <a class=\"mh-excerpt-more\" href=\"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/?p=331958\" title=\"AFL icon Barassi to receive state funeral\">[&#8230;]<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/331958"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=331958"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/331958\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":331959,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/331958\/revisions\/331959"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=331958"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=331958"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=331958"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}