Brisbane Roar will launch initiatives to help victims affected by the devastating floods in Queensland as CEO David Pourre urged the football community to come together.
Floods have ripped through south-east Queensland, where lives have been lost and houses under water in heartbreaking scenes.
Local football clubs have been left to pick up the pieces, with teams facing an urgent and unprecedented clean-up challenge – even the headquarters of Football Queensland itself flooded out, while the start of the NPL season has been pushed back.
Roar boss Pourre addressed the challenge ahead and what the A-Leagues club is set to do to help the state recover.
“It’s been absolutely devastating the past week and it’s not going to end,” he told Paramount+ at half-time of Brisbane’s 2-1 Isuzu UTE A-League loss at Central Coast Mariners on Saturday.
“There’s a lot of clean up to do. The club’s been impacted but not as much as those in Queensland, who’ve lost homes and lives. In particular our football community, just absolutely decimated their club houses and fields. It’s going to take a long time to clean up.
“But as a club, we’re certainly behind it and looking forward to building some initiatives this week that we can announce to fans.
“Get everyone behind it. We have the best fans in the stands, the best fans across the country the Brisbane Roar. They certainly tell you when you’re not going well and certainly love when they are. One thing we all are, we all stick together when times are tough.
“Certainly this is that moment in time that our fans and the whole football community need to get together. Doesn’t matter if you’re in Queensland, wherever you are in the country… certainly trying to raise a lot of money for these clubs and support them.”
