Junior Rioli Quick Info
Height 5 ft 9 in
Weight 80 kg
Date of Birth June 4, 1995
Zodiac Sign Gemini
Eye Color Dark Brown

Junior Rioli is a professional Australian rules footballer who was previously known under the name Willie Rioli. As of November 2022, Rioli had been playing for Port Adelaide Football Club of the Australian Football League (AFL).

Born Name

William Rioli

Nick Name

Junior

Willie Rioli of West Coast during the 2019 AFL round 18 match between Melbourne and West Coast at Traeger Park on Sunday, 21 July 2019 in Alice Springs, Northern Territory
Willie Rioli of West Coast during the 2019 AFL round 18 match between Melbourne and West Coast at Traeger Park on Sunday, 21 July 2019 in Alice Springs, Northern Territory (Flickerd / Wikimedia / CC BY-SA 4.0)

Sun Sign

Gemini

Born Place

Tiwi Islands, Australia

Nationality

Australian nationality

Australian nationality

Education

Junior Rioli attended Xavier College, Melbourne.

Occupation

Australian Rules Footballer

Family

  • Others – Dean Rioli (First Cousin) (Essendon Football Club), Cyril Rioli (First Cousin) (Hawthorn Football Club), Ronnie Burns (Maternal First Cousin) Daniel Rioli (First Cousin Once Removed) (Richmond Football Club), Maurice Rioli (Aunt)

Manager

Junior Rioli is represented by Kapital Sports.

Build

Athletic

Height

5 ft 9 in or 175 cm

Weight

80 kg or 176.5 lbs

Race / Ethnicity

Black

Hair Color

Dark Brown

Eye Color

Dark Brown

Sexual Orientation

Straight

Distinctive Features

  • Sports a messy hairstyle

Junior Rioli Facts

  1. He was brought up in the Tiwi Islands.
  2. Junior Rioli was given an indefinite provisional suspension under the American Football League and Australian Sports Anti-Doping Authority anti-doping code after being alleged for adverse analytical finding for urine substitution in September 2019. Later, Junior had confessed that he had been smoking marijuana the night before his drug test. However, his suspension was brought down to just 2 years in March 2021.
  3. Initially he had been drafted to the West Coast Eagles as their 3rd selection overall in the 2016 national draft.
  4. He made his debut in round two of the 2018 season of in the fifty-one point win against the Western Bulldogs at Etihad Stadium.
  5. On April 23, 2021. Junior Rioli was arrested at Darwin Airport after being found with 25 grams of marijuana in his pants. The drugs were detected by drug detection dogs. As a result of this, he was sentenced to 12-month good behaviour bond.
  6. In August 2022, he began going by the name of “Junior Rioli” professionally. Prior to that, Rioli had been playing under the title of “Willie Rioli”.

Featured Image By Flickerd / Wikimedia / CC BY-SA 4.0

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