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Actor Russell Crowe buys Australian rugby club
Mar 19, 2006, 10:35 GMT
Sydney - Hollywood actor Russell Crowe achieved a lifelong ambition Sunday when he became part-owner of struggling Australian rugby league club South Sydney.
Crowe and business partner Robert Holmes a Court won approval for their 3-million-Australian-dollar (2.1-million-US-dollar) takeover at a rowdy meeting with fans in Sydney.
'This means we have a future, we have a future and we have cash in the bank and we can begin to focus on the very thing that all of the factionalism and the in-fighting stops us focusing on, which is playing the game of football and playing it competitively,' an elated Crowe said after the vote.
'We've been given the mandate by the members of the club and we intend to one-by-one achieve all the things we've been talking about.'
New Zealand-born Crowe has been a South Sydney fan since his childhood in Sydney.
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