AS Football Club in OZ

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TWO games into a new season, Alex O'Connell and his teammates are battling away against competitive opponents just like any other senior men's team in the Manly-Warringah Football Association.

Alex and most of the players in his Mosman FC side have grown up with Asperger's Syndrome - a neurobiological condition primarily affecting social skills and considered a mild variant of autism.

But for Alex that is less important than making friends and plotting the team's first win....

http://www.mosmandaily.com.au/article/2 ... _news.html

Sweet, football players with AS.

Awesome. I want to play! Too bad Mosman is a two and a half hour drive from where i am.

Great story.

Just shows that there is a lot you can achieve.

Yeech. Flopball!

I read about it a few weeks ago in a Sydney Morning Herald sports section (Saturday edition) - in the 'The Fitz Files' page.

COOL STUFF!

will wonders never cease? amazing.