Introducing: the inaugural Good Human Armbands
As part of our Female Football Week celebrations in 2025, Alamein FC is proud to introduce a new annual tradition: our Good Human Armbands.
Each year during Female Football Week, one player from every team at Alamein will be recognised not just for what they do on the pitch, but for how they do it. The armbands will be worn by the players at both games played during Female Football Week.
The Good Human Armbands will be awarded to players who consistently demonstrate our club values: things like kindness, respect, encouragement, accountability, effort, and resilience. These are the teammates who lift others up. The ones who show up early and help pack up cones. The players who listen, include, support, and lead… often quietly, and always meaningfully.
The armbands are not awarded for goals scored, matches won, or standout performances (although many of our recipients achieve those things too). They are awarded for something deeper: for the way a player carries herself within the team, and in our wider club community.
(This year, we also awarded an armband to one of our hardworking volunteers, Gordon, because good humans don’t only wear boots. Gordon gets to Dorothy Laver at 6am before every Home Game, setting up banners, moving goals, even cleaning dog droppings that others have left behind. He cleans the toilets in the clubhouse before the girls arrive. He serves on the Alamein Board. He tirelessly builds connections with our sponsors to forge support for our teams. He even cooked the sausages at our Female Football Week launch BBQ. Special guest of the club, Emily Gielnik, surprised Gordon by presenting the armband during her visit to the club during our launch - watch the moment unfold here).
At Alamein FC, our players compete at the highest level of women’s football in Victoria outside the A-Leagues. But we’re just as proud of how we train, how we support one another, and the kind of people we’re helping our players become. We believe that elite performance and being a good human are not separate goals: They’re connected, and we believe that one makes the other stronger.
2025 Good Human Armband Recipients:
Grace Hamilton (U12 Development)
Kaya Butty (U12 Development)
Madeleine Bulger (U13 JNPL)
Georgia Papadopoulos (U15 JNPL)
Mylie Fishley (U17 JNPL)
Liesel Huddart (U20 NPLW)
Jess Shilton (Senior NPLW)
Zoe Houghton (Senior NPLW)
This is just the beginning of a new tradition, and one we hope will become a favourite moment in every Alamein FC season.