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Farewell Jim Hayes
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Jimmy Hayes probably wouldn’t have wanted anyone to make a fuss but the Canberra football community paid tribute to a pioneer of the game in the ACT. Hayes died recently in hospital, aged 80. He was a player and coach in some of the very first ACT clubs but his biggest role came in setting up junior clubs in the ACT. Hayes helped form the Majura Soccer Club where the club house in Dickson is now named the Jimmy Hayes pavilion. Yesterday club president Rhonda Parkin said Hayes was just always there to help out. “He always used to say, ‘I don’t want anyone making a fuss’, all he did wasn’t for his benefit, he was just there for the love of the children and the game,” she said. “He was just always around to help out.” Hayes’s foremost love was helping juniors with the game. Hayes set up the first junior team in Canberra. Terry Hayes said his father spread football’s message widely.
Jim Hayes “He wanted to see junior football improve, he liked seeing kids enjoying the game.”
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“He was a janitor at Hughes primary and he just started bringing a ball for the kids to play with at lunch and those numbers just grew and grew and then they started entering teams in the local competitions,” Terry Hayes said. “He wanted to see junior football improve, he liked seeing kids enjoying the game.” Chris Conti – who managed the ACTAS program while Hayes was director of coaching – said Hayes inspired many young players to a life-time involvement in football. “He was a terrific man and a real inspiration,” Conti said. He is survived by sons Alan, Pat, Danny and Terry and 10 grandchildren as well as six great grand children.
May 29 2009