During his off-season trip to Rio de Janeiro, Harry O’Brien was featured on a television news report on SporTV News.

O’Brien spoke fluent Portuguese throughout the interview as he took the game of Australian football to the streets of Brazil.

Armed with a Collingwood Sherrin, O’Brien mixed with the locals, kitting out youngsters in Collingwood apparel and teaching them how to play the Australian game.

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During the interview, viewers were shown overlay of O’Brien’s goal in the final quarter of the 2010 Grand Final Replay. The TV network referred to him as a “defensor do Collingwood FC”.

Watch O’Brien’s feature on SporTV here.



Harry catches up with some locals in Serrinha, Brazil.