According to the Olympics’ official website, the list includes the winners of the World Championships and the 2020 Olympics.

Boxing

Kazakhstan will be represented in boxing by Nazym Kyzaibai (50 kilograms). The 2014 and 2016 World Champion in the weight category up to 48 kilograms, Kyzaibai, fulfilled her dream of competing in the Olympic Games. The tournament in Paris will be her first Olympic competition.

Valentina Khalzova (75 kilograms) will also debut at the Games. Her achievements include the title of World Champion 2016 in the category of up to 69 kilograms, the bronze medal of the World Championship 2022 in the same category and the gold medal of the World Cup 2023 in the category of up to 75 kilograms.

Saken Bibossinov (51 kilograms) is another national team boxer who has participated in the Olympic Games. In 2021, he secured a bronze in Tokyo, winning in the category up to 52 kilograms. He is also the 2021 World Champion, the 2022 World Silver Medalist and the Bronze Medalist of the 2019 and 2021 World Championships.

Judo

In judo, Abiba Abuzhakynova (48 kilograms), the third-ranked in the world, will debut at the Games in Paris. Over the past two years, Abuzhakynova has won bronze at the World Championships in 2022 and 2024.

Experienced Olympic judoka Eldos Smetov (60 kilograms) won silver in the 60-kilogram category in Rio 2016. Five years later, in Tokyo, he won bronze. His collection includes gold at the 2015 World Championships and bronze at the 2019 and 2022 World Championships.

Gymnastics

Milad Karimi is a gymnast specializing in all-around categories. At the 2023 World Cup, he brought the first award to the Kazakhstan national team in 26 years, becoming the bronze medalist in floor exercises. Karimi also competed in the Tokyo Games.

Athletics

Norah Jeruto, a long-distance runner originally from Kenya, obtained the right to perform for the national team of Kazakhstan in January 2022. The same year, Jeruto brought her team gold at the World Championships, setting a championship record.

Fencing

Ruslan Kurbanov, representing Kazakhstan in fencing, became the first athlete from Kazakhstan to win the World Fencing Championship award at the 2023 World Championship. He also won a bronze medal in the skewer tournament. The 2024 Olympics will be the second in his career.

Greco-Roman wrestling

Aidos Sultangali (60 kilograms) has twice climbed the world championships podium in Greco-Roman wrestling. He became the bronze medalist of the 2018 and 2022 World Cups in the category of up to 60 kilograms. The Olympic Games in Paris will be his first, which he has been dreaming about for 15 years.

Demeu Zhadraev is another wrestler in the category of up to 71 kilograms. He was the silver medalist of the 2017 World Championship in his category. Zhadraev competed at the Tokyo Games in the category of up to 77 kilograms and obtained the right to compete in Paris.

Freestyle wrestling

Azamat Dauletbekov, a freestyle wrestler (86 kilograms), will compete in his first Olympic games in 2024. He was a Bronze Medalist at the World Championships in 2022 and 2023.

Tennis

Elena Rybakina is the first Kazakh tennis player to be ranked in the world’s top 10. At the 2020 Games, She took fourth place. She won Wimbledon in 2022 and became a finalist at the Australian Open in 2023. At the moment, she is the fourth-ranked racket in the world.

Matildas captain Sam Kerr has purchased a vacant block of land in the gorgeous South Beach suburb of North Coogee in Perth for $940,000.

The star striker, 29, grew up in the area and the block of land is located close to where her parents Roxanne and Roger Kerr reside.

Kerr has plans to build a townhouse dream home on the lot, reports The West Australian.

The stunning location is just a few kilometres away from the popular Perth suburb of Fremantle, where Kerr was born and raised.

Kerr appears to have purchased the 200sqm block of land during a recent visit when she managed to find the time in her hectic schedule.

Construction plans have been approved for a three-storey townhouse with gorgeous oceanside views.

It comes after photos of the family home where superstar striker Kerr practised her craft as a kid have recently re-emerged online.

Before she joined the Matildas, Kerr grew up in a two-storey house, 13km south of the Perth CBD, as the youngest of four siblings.

Older brother Daniel Kerr found great success in Aussie Rules football.

He later played 220 AFL games with West Coast Eagles, and Kerr wanted to follow in his footsteps with a professional sporting career.

Photos from their childhood home show framed football jerseys adorning the walls and what looks to be a photo of Kerr with a family dog hanging in a bedroom.

Kerr switched from Australian Rules football to soccer at the age of 12, and just three years later made her debut for the Matildas as a substitute in a match against Italy, when she was just 15.

Playing for the Perth Glory in the Australian W-League, Kerr’s impressive performances there, and later in Sydney, earned her a move to the USA in 2013.

Meanwhile, millions of soccer fans cheered for Sam on Wednesday night, when she scored a goal against England in the semi-final, but unfortunately they later lost to 3-1 to the Lionesses.

Tom Brady is a dedicated family man, and he has proven it yet again! The retired NFL GOAT has been seen recently preparing for his broadcaster role at the Fox Sports booth, but amidst all the preparation, his parents and kids remain his top priority. The former Patriots QB has always been vocal about the influence of his father, Tom Brady Sr., in his life. This was most evident during the 2017 Super Bowl when Brady, with teary eyes, said, “I think my dad is my hero because he’s someone I look up to every day. He was always someone who supported me in everything I did.”

This sentiment rings true as Tom Brady’s success story is a testament to the power of family support. Despite facing initial challenges through high school and college, he has never hidden his admiration for his parents, consistently crediting them for his achievements in the NFL. Now, as a father himself, Tom Brady sees an ideal persona in his dad, learning from him every day. And now, with the arrival of Father’s Day, Brady once again takes the opportunity to honor his father, as he continues to prioritize family above all else.

On Father’s Day, the Patriots’ Hall of Famer took the time to write a heartfelt note to his father on Instagram. Posting a series of pictures with his family on June 16th, starting with a shot of himself with his kids from their vacation, followed by photos of him with Tom Brady Sr., Brady wrote in the caption: “Happy Father’s Day to my HERO and the best role model I could have ever asked for.”

“THANK YOU to these kids for giving me the gift of being a father, a joy that I could have never imagined until you came into my life. I hope that I can give you all that my dad gave me… unconditional love and support ❤️❤️❤️,” he further added. As a father himself, Brady not only expressed his gratitude to his father but also shared how his dad inspires him every day to be an ideal father to Jack, Benjamin, and Vivian. Spеaking of Brady as a fathеr, his Junе 12th Hall of Famе spееch also included a fеw linеs dеdicatеd to his kids.

Tom Brady’s hеartfеlt Hall of Famе spееch for his kids
Brady’s children joined him on Wednesday in Foxborough where the Patriots inducted him into their Hall of Fame and retired his No. 12 jersey at Gillette Stadium for his Hall of Fame ceremony. And being surrounded by both his New England family and his children, the seven-time Super Bowl champion took this opportunity to honor both for supporting him with their unwavering love and support.

While Brady delivered a lengthy speech dedicated to his Patriots team and his former head coach Bill Belichick, he concluded with a special message to his kids. “Your dad loves you more than anything in this world,” Brady said in his speech. “There’s no greater joy than watching the three of you grow and teach me things on your way to becoming incredible young adults.”

Brady’s dedication and prioritization of his children highlight how much he cherishes his role as a father. His commitment to providing for his three little ones, who are likely the happiest part of his life at the moment, demonstrates his profound love for parenthood.

The Tom Brady roast brought a level-5 hurricane into Tom Brady’s life. At first, it might be just some forced smiles here and some genuine laughs there. But it was the aftermath where the real destruction unfolded. Gisele Bundchen was “upset” and “deeply disappointed” after the jokes that Brady didn’t stand up against. Brady revealed in the Pivot podcast that he was crestfallen by the way the jokes affected his kids.

To make up for all this, Tom Brady might have issued a public apology to his ex-wife and he might have promised to be a better parent to his kids as well. But at the end of it all. After everything was said and done from Brady’s end, Gilbert Arenas had just one question for Brady. Did he really think that his personal life was not going to be dragged through the mud and back by the people in the roast? When signing up for the roast, Brady knew he needed some thick skin, since there were going to be professional comedians throwing sharp barbs at him, which would seemingly extend to the ones around him as well.

“He’s pretending that he’s sad. He knew what was coming. He knew that woman was about to beat him up,” Arenas asserted on ‘NightCap’ to Shannon Sharpe and Ocho Cinco, bluntly claiming that Brady sensed the coming of everything on the roast beforehand. He didn’t stop there. The claims continued rolling in as Arenas even claimed that Brady was just ‘pretending’ to be sad.

Complaining against the roast might have invited some more roasting for Tom Brady. Building on the argument further, Shannon Sharpe added his take to it. “You should have thought about that before you took your a** and took thеm pеoplе’s monеy. You didn’t think about who you carе about thе most,” Sharpe asked bluntly. Sharpe, too, believed that Brady should have seen the jokes on his family long-coming.

“Oh yеah, now thеy didn’t say anything dirеctly about your kids, but you bеst bеliеvе anybody that you’vе bееn affiliatеd with. Thеy’ll say about your mom, thеy’ll say about your dad. But thеy’rе gonna tеar your wifе’s a**, your еx wifе, thеy’rе gonna tеar hеr a** up, and thеy’rе gonna tеar your a** up,” Sharpe iterated as plainly as he could, agreeing to Arenas’ question.

Tom Brady reportedly received about $25 million (plus the $40,000 studded gold ring) as the payout of his show. Do you think Shannon Sharpe and Gilbert Arenas’ questions were valid? Drop your thoughts in the comments.

Athletes have a significant influence on our society. Soccer, basketball, tennis, motorsports and swimming are a few of the most popular sports worldwide. Sport gives hope, strength and confidence; it inspires and unites the globe. A lot of professionals not only achieve success through their determination and persistence. The most charitable athletes choose to make a change, fight poverty, help communities and donate to create a safer and better world for humanity and people in need. Here are the 10 most charitable athletes worldwide:

Cristiano Ronaldo
Cristiano Ronaldo is the most charitable professional athlete in the world. The soccer player is famously supporting his home country, Portugal. Ronaldo is an ambassador for Save the Children, Unicef and World Vision. He notably donated $1 million to Portuguese hospitals to fight against the COVID-19 pandemic and $83,000 to a young Indian boy who needed brain surgery. The celebrity does not have tattoos, for a charitable reason. He donates blood frequently in his hometown.
Ronaldo once donated $83,000 to pay for a child’s brain surgery and used $165,000 to fund a Portuguese cancer center, among a laundry list of good-guy gestures.

Serena Williams

Serena Williams is one of the world’s best tennis players, and she is known for her activism. The Serena Williams Foundation has made relevant changes so far. Her foundation helped to finance a Secondary School in Matooni as well as a school in Jamaica. Williams has been awarded multiple times by the UNICEF Goodwill Ambassador program, including the “Young Heroes Award” and the “Family Circle and Prudential Financial Player Who Makes a Difference Award.” She encourages young people to achieve their dreams, and her philanthropy speaks for itself.

Lionel Messi

This soccer player created a non-profit organization, The Leo Messi Foundation, with a focus on giving children the same opportunities to make their dreams come true. Messi’s foundation donated €1 million to tackle the COVID-19 pandemic. Leo Messi has been a UNICEF ambassador since 2010. He was involved in helping Syrian children to attend school by rebuilding establishments —1,600 Syrian children got the opportunity to go back to education.

Michael Jordan

The retired NBA player is a philanthropist. A multimillion-dollar donation from Michael Jordan to the organization of Friends of the Children helped a national campaign for children’s support. The athlete founded the James R. Jordan Foundation in honor of his father. The foundation supports poor

communities in North Carolina and Chicago. Michael Jordan’s brand, Jordan Brand is committed to donating $100 million between 2020 and 2030.

Colin Kaepernick

The former NFL player’s activism manifests itself in the Know Your Rights organization, which helps the young to attain social justice and education in struggling social layers. The Know Your Rights COVID-19 Relief Fund took on the responsibility to help out those who needed help to tackle the COVID-19 pandemic.

Dale Earnhardt Jr.

The Nascar driver has helped with his philanthropy worldwide. In 2018, Nationwide’s Make Safe Happen got a new partnership with the Earnhardt family to provide knowledge about home fires. The motorsport athlete donated $400,000 to Nationwide Children’s Hospital a year earlier. He envisaged supporting people affected by hurricanes and wildfires.

Eli Manning

The former American football star volunteered to deliver water, baby formula and other needs to people affected by Hurricane Katrina in 2005. The Eli Manning Children’s Clinics Foundation gained donors after the athlete got involved. He created the campaign named Eli’s Challenge for the organization to fight cancer, Tackle Kids Cancer. Manning donates a significant amount of money every year.

Michael Phelps

The Olympic Gold Medalist swimmer created the Michael Phelps Foundation in 2008 after winning $1 million from his Olympic performance. He aimed to generate a healthy lifestyle for children. Financial assistance and water safety are among his most important goals within the organization. According to the Forbes list of the world’s most generous celebrities, he is one of the most humanitarian athletes.

Maria Sharapova

The retired Russian tennis player founded the Maria Sharapova Foundation in 2007. The organization focuses on children from socially deprived communities. Financial support and educational chances are at the center of the foundation. As a Goodwill Ambassador, Maria Sharapova is working on poverty issues. She raised money for Chernobyl-affected students to get scholarships.

Athletes are taking action and fighting against poverty for humanity to have a better life globally. The world’s best achievers are emphasizing the issues of our society and raising awareness with their campaigns to the most burning problems of the world. The most charitable athletes can make a difference by dedicating their activism to the most imperative issues around the world.

Few celebrities were as thrilled as Kim Kardashian was when Lionel Messi opted to join Inter Miami last summer. Kardashian has loudly and proudly proclaimed her love for the magic Messi — and as a property owner in Miami, the reality TV star is able to see him up close practically whenever she wants.

In a new post on Instagram, Kardashian has again professed her Inter Miami — and Messi — fandom amid the team’s successful start to the 2024 Major League Soccer season, which many hope will end with Messi leading the Herons to their first-ever MLS Cup this fall.

Kim K’s long-held admiration for Messi

Saint walking Messi out on the field tonight at the La Galaxy vs Inter Miami game!!! He is living the absolute dream! pic.twitter.com/g6ZEy6ujYr

— Kim Kardashian (@KimKardashian) February 26, 2024

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In a photo shared to Instagram Stories on Tuesday, Kardashian posted a black and pink Inter Miami shirt — the team’s away strip for this season — in addition to a pink Inter Miami sash, both uploaded seemingly unprompted.

Following their 3-1 win over Nashville SC on Saturday, Inter Miami sit atop the Eastern Conference with 18 points from 10 games. Messi scored twice in the game, surely delighting Kardashian — who previously said that son Saint was “living the dream’ as he had the chance to walk Messi out onto the field at Dignity Health Sports Park for a game against the LA Galaxy in February.

Kim Kardashian is also present at Messi’s Inter Miami debut 📹🇺🇸pic.twitter.com/MGOZJh6Z2r

— All About Argentina 🛎🇦🇷 (@AlbicelesteTalk) July 21, 2023

Messi and Kardashian met briefly last season, shortly before the Argentine made his official North American debut in a Leagues Cup game against Cruz Azul — which he ended with a game-winning free kick in second-half stoppage time. Plenty more interactions between Kardashian and one of the sport’s GOATs can be expected as Inter Miami push for the MLS Cup this season.

Two BU professors explain how the mental side of the GOAT’s game was more impressive than his physical accomplishments

Tom Brady retired Tuesday.

And with his nine-slide Instagram post announcement came the end of an era.

“I have always believed the sport of football is an ‘all-in’ proposition—if a 100% competitive commitment isn’t there, you won’t succeed, and success is what I love so much about our game,” he wrote. “This is difficult for me to write, but here it goes: I am not going to make that competitive commitment anymore.”

Although his post prompted an outpouring of support from the NFL community (it came after two reporters broke the news over the weekend), it was the words he curiously omitted that had the sports world buzzing with confusion, anger, and disappointment. Despite playing quarterback for 20 of his 22 seasons with the New England Patriots, and winning six of his seven Super Bowl rings in Foxboro, the 44-year old Brady made no mention of the Patriots organization, the team’s coach Bill Belichick (Hon.’04), or its owner Robert Kraft, while lavishly praising the Tampa Bay Buccaneers, his last team, for just two years and one title.

Brady’s career, highlighted by his passing records, championships, and amazing longevity, is not without controversy. The word “Deflategate” will forever be linked to his legacy. And so will “tuck rule.” And yes, so will his brand, TB12, through which he endlessly hawks books, diet plans, nutrition supplements, exercise equipment, body treatments, and more.

On Tuesday BU Today spoke with Edson Filho, a Wheelock College of Education & Human Development associate professor of sport, exercise, and performance psychology, and John McCarthy, a Wheelock clinical associate professor, who oversees the Physical Education, Health, and Coaching graduate program coaching specialization and is director of BU’s Institute for Athletic Coach Education. The conversations centered around Brady’s legacy on and off the field.

This interview was condensed and edited for clarity.

Q&A
WITH EDSON FILHO AND JOHN MCCARTHY
BU Today: In a sport where the average career span of NFL players is 3.3 years, how did Tom Brady manage to play for 22 years?
Edson Filho: When you talk about high-performing people, it’s about performing at their peak consistently. He is an example of expertise at the highest level. It’s like tennis players who win consistently. I think he will go down as one of the best of all time because of his consistency. I would highlight that. There are many factors to how you get to be an expert. His personality, his coping skills, the support system around him, that’s what allowed him to have peak performance for so long. The definition of an expert is the skills he developed through training, but also to then have the consistency of superior performance. That is the textbook definition of expertise.

Do you think that the mental part of Brady’s game will be as much a part of his legacy as his physical accomplishments?
John McCarthy: His excellence was born out of the fact that he was a sixth round draft choice. He almost went undrafted. His physical attributes were not impressing anybody. What people don’t understand is that he played for Bill Belichick, a grand master chess player. So he got an intense schooling. You can’t separate the tactical approach of Belichick and the success of Brady. He puts his teams in a position where they have success. But Brady also had the peculiar mindset to study things as intensely as his coaches. That is reflected in his unbelievable decision-making. If you watch Brady play, his processing speed is born out of thousands and thousands of hours of watching film. You can’t force someone to do that.

Filho: He’s a public figure. That requires a level of commitment. You are only able to reach high levels of performance and sustain high levels if you engage in consistent practice. Deliberate practice. Practicing hours and hours to get there. And to improve. Always practicing to be the best you can. But also, for you to perform so well at the highest level of play, you need to be able to recover from stress. Otherwise you burn out. His support system allowed him to recover and be back performing at the peak level.

Being a public figure athlete today must be especially hard with social media and all the noise out there from fans. How important was it for Brady’s success to manage that?
Filho: It’s extremely difficult to be a professional athlete today. The mental performance is a big part of it. All of this coping stuff, having the ability to manage stress, and self-confidence is how you balance yourself. It is all about self-regulation. The definition of resilience is bouncing back from a stressful situation. So many aspects of the mental game that high-performing athletes develop are around the mental coping skills and being able to cope with stress and to thrive.

McCarthy: Bill Belichick was first coached under Bill Parcells, who was one of the first to limit access for the media and took an adversarial approach to the media. Belichick took that to the next level. He was very clear what the players needed to focus on. Brady had a peculiar ability, more than we’ve seen, to be able to tune out the noise and totally be in the moment and present for the task at hand. He was not easily drawn away from the game. I’m sure he was motivated by those saying he should retire. I am sure he took those as motivators. But that was it.

Do you think Brady’s legacy will be as much about his coping skills as his passing skills?
Filho: Absolutely. Athletes with higher mental skills are better able to cope with stress and recover from stress. The big difference between high-performing athletes and lesser performing athletes is their coping skills.

On a personal level, did you enjoy watching Brady play?
Filho: Oh, very much. I will highlight three things about him. Confidence is one of the things we want with psychological skills training. I like that ability in him. I also liked very much his decision-making skills. Making the right decision under time constraints. He was also able to generate options quickly and to execute them quickly. And I appreciate that he was a leader. He got stuff done. But also the motivational leader in him. He motivated his teammates. And he brought people together with social leadership. You don’t see one player with all those different leadership qualities very often. I think Tom brought so many different aspects of leadership to the team.

Will his career be a case study in leadership one day?
Filho: That’s an excellent question. In sports psychology, we use the expert-novice paradigm. We compare high-performing people with low-performing people and see the differences. You learn about decision-making, concentration, self-regulation, leadership, all of those things. Everything is connected in this sense. Having a strong mindset impacts your physical performance, which in turn impacts your social performance. It’s all connected.

McCarthy: I think he’d be a peculiar case study. In anyone’s career, there has to be a fair degree of luck. Things that happened at the right moments. The right coaches. He clearly from a physical standpoint paid a lot of attention to his conditioning, how to stay sharp, physically, to stay youthful.

Can youth and college coaches learn things and teach things from Brady’s approach?
McCarthy: He wants to be the guy doing things the right way. When the guy who is paid the most is that guy, he sets the tone for other players. Demanding. That search for perfection that Tom Brady had and that insistence of, whatever it is, that attention to detail, is what he learned in a culture that Belichick created. But he took it to the next level from a player on the field to the embodiment of doing your job well all the time. Brady was able to take what he learned and take it to the next level.

Playing professional football as a quarterback means you’re often faced with huge men looking to tackle you to the floor, so they can’t be afraid of much, right? Not according to Tom Brady, who reportedly feared divorcing Gisele Bundchen after 13 years of marriage.

Bundchen, the mother of his two children Benjamin and Vivian, finalized a divorce from the ex-New England Patriot with many speculating that it was due to the QB’s decision to prolong his NFL career into his 40s with the Tampa Bay Buccaneers.

And now the love is well and truly over as she has started a relationship with Joaquim Valente, a fellow Brazilian national who served as her Brazilian jiu-jitsu coach and as a mentor.

This is something Brady always worried about as he worried repeating co-parenting stress following his separation from Bridget Moynahan whom he has one child with and broke up with in 2006.

“Tom would actually agree that co-parenting hasn’t been easy,’ an insider told DailyMail.com. “There has been a lot of love lost in their relationship and navigating through that and their careers and finding new love has not been easy.

“It is safe to say that Tom and Gisele never expected to break up. He never wanted to divorce, especially since his relationship with Bridget ended, and dealing with that to get to a place of good co-parenting took some time.

To do it all over again has been stressful. It is just a sad situation because family is so important to both of them and to not be a complete family sets many struggles moving forward.”

Brady will make co-parenting work
Despite the seven-time Super Bowl champions’ fears, he is determined to make co-parenting work with the mother of his two children and likewise, Bundchen’s kids are also very close to her heart meaning that she will prioritize their needs over being petty.

So, in the turmoil of their break-up they’re now finally beginning to understand their dynamic as co-parents and potentially friends, instead of husband and wife, and they will manage to strike up a positive relationship.

“Like everything, they will get there,” the source added. “Because they aren’t getting back together, but Gisele and Tom have gone through a bunch of sadness to be where they are now, which is leaps and bounds better than it has been.

“As much as it is not ideal, they are both determined to get there somehow. They both agree that the benefit of their kids is what matters, and [Gisele] wasn’t lying when she said they have good days and bad days. It is a process, especially in the public eye.”

Matildas star Sam Kerr was spotted in Fremantle with her new fiance after spending a day at the beach on New Year’s Eve.

Beloved WA football star Sam Kerr has recently returned home to Perth for the first time since announcing her engagement to long-time girlfriend Kristie Mewis.

The couple were spotted in bikinis as they walked home from the beach in Fremantle after spending the day soaking up Perth’s sunny New Year’s Eve weather.

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Soccer Sweethearts, newly engaged Sam Kerr and Kristie Mewis head to their local beach in Perth’s Fremantle

Kerr wore a floral bikini paired with a set of $630 Balenciaga slides, while her fiance opted for a navy blue G-string bikini with $260 Versace slides and sunglasses.

The star sighting comes weeks after Kerr shared a romantic photo from the moment she proposed to Mewis on social media.

The tale of the family home where Matildas superstar Sam Kerr spent hours practising her craft and dreaming of playing for Australia is as sad as hers is inspirational.

Much like the tale of cricket legend Don Bradman hitting a golf ball with a stump against a watertank in his Bowral backyard, time stood still as a young Kerr kicked the ball endlessly around her Kardinya, Perth home and backyard.

Kerr was living in the humble two-storey home, 13km south of the Perth CBD, dominated by low-density family friendly detached houses when she was first picked to play for Perth Glory at the age of just 15.

While Kerr, now 29, was dreaming of where a soccer career might take her, older brother Daniel Kerr, now 40, was already well and truly on his own path of success with AFL team the West Coast Eagles.

Daniel played 220 AFL games for the club and won a premiership in 2006 in a 13-year top flight career that wrapped up in 2013.

Old photos of the Kerr’s childhood home show glimpses of the Sam’s family’s life, with a framed picture of her posing with a dog at the beach on a bedroom wall.

The living areas boasted sports photographs and framed jerseys from the sporting careers of both Sam and Daniel.

However Daniel Kerr struggled post-football and in 2021 he set the home on fire and was sentenced to two years prison over the offence in May.

Daniel Kerr was living in the home at the time and has since said it was Sam’s ‘tough love’ that helped him to work his way out of a troubled time in his life.

However the home suffered more than $250,000 in damages and all its memories couldn’t be salvaged.

What was left after the fire was demolished before Sam and Daniel’s parents Roger and Roxy Kerr subdivided the property into two lots.

The first lot sold in September 2022 for $420,000 and the second lot sold in June for $440,000.