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CENTENARY BOOK LAUNCH
Celebrating our rich history is an important part of the identify of our wonderful community football club at Wynnum.
2021 was a milestone year for our club as we honoured our Centenary with a host of club events including a season launch at Parliament House and a hugely successful Reunion Day at Carmichael Park.
The club wound up its Centenary Year with the launch of a special book – 100 Years of Football at Wynnum – which chronicles the amazing history of our very special club.
The December 2021 event was held at the Majestic Cinemas in Wynnum where a huge crowd of past and current members and dignitaries gathered for the launch to both celebrate the past and raise a toast to the highlights of a wonderful Centenary Year.
The book was written by club committee member, Vicky Krayem, and published by Fair Play Publishing – a boutique publishing house which specialises in publishing books about football and those who keep the spirit of the beautiful game alive and well in Australia.
Wynnum is one of only a handful of clubs across Australia to have not only reached the century milestone but has springboarded into its second century as a vibrant and aspirational football club.
As club stalwart Wayne Gracey says in the forward to the book “there is something special that lies within our club … a sense of character, warmth and humility in club members that many in the past have felt”.
The history of Wynnum Wolves FC and its people is certainly a story worth telling.
The spectacular rooftop River Deck of Queensland Parliament House, overlooking Southbank and the Brisbane River, was the very special venue chosen for a memorable Wynnum Wolves FC Centenary Year celebration in May 2021.
The occasion was the launch of the club’s Centenary Book Project – 100 Years of Football at Wynnum – to be released by Fairplay Publishing during Wynnum’s Centenary year. The book was written by Wynnum Wolves FC committee member and journalist, Vicky Krayem, to chronicle the colourful history of the Wynnum club, with the assistance of many proud club members who have shared treasured memories of their connection with the club.
More than 100 special guests, including past and present players, coaches and club administrators, Life Members, sponsors and dignitaries, attended the cocktail function, which was hosted by popular Football broadcaster and journalist, Simon Hill, who made the trip from Sydney to MC the event. A highlight of the evening was Hill’s entertaining interview of club Life Members and icons, Wayne Gracey and Eddie Wilkins, who shared some entertaining stories from their playing days at the club. An encore performance was also delivered by 2021 NPL Under 13 captain, Saharhat Kawlpawong, who stole the show when he spoke with such eloquence about what the club means to him – signalling that the future of Wynnum Wolves Football Club is in very good hands as it enters the next 100 years of its proud history.
The Parliament House Centenary Event was a successful and memorable evening of celebrations, recollections and re-kindling of friendships amongst the tight-knit Wynnum Wolves FC community – and the building of a new bridge of respect and recognition between the past and present custodians of the 100-year club.
A limited number of Soft Cove editions of the book – 100 Years of Football at Wynnum – are still available for purchase at the club at a cost of $45.
Wynnum Wolves FC would sincerely like to thank Fairplay Publishing for supporting the publication of a book – in our Centenary Year – to showcase the amazing history of our proud community football club.
A special centenary jersey was commissioned by Wynnum Wolves Football Club in 2020 to help the club celebrate our milestone 100th season in 2021.
‘Project Centenary Jersey’ was the first in a number of iconic celebratory plans laid down by the club’s committee to mark such an historic year.
Inspiration for the jersey design was drawn from old photographs and recollections of past club jerseys, including a description of Wynnum’s original jersey detailed in the Chronicles of Australian Soccer, which describes a playing strip that featured black and white vertical stripes, black shorts and black socks with white turnovers.
Black and white were the predominate colours of the Wynnum kit over the first 40 years of the club’s existence before a merger with the local Lota club in the early 1960s introduced the now iconic yellow into the club’s colours.
Wynnum Wolves’ club apparel providers, Stanno, committed to produce the club’s centenary jersey, with the hugely important task of jersey design handed to young Wynnum player and budding graphic designer, Keegan Dennis (pictured), who had just finished his Year 12 studies and was heading towards a TAFE Diploma of Graphic Design.
Keegan relished the opportunity put his prodigious design talents to the test and came up with a fresh and striking design that has won much praise from the club community throughout the centenary year.
The final centenary jersey design is a predominately white featuring thin black, vertical pinstripes down the length of the body, which pays homage to historical descriptions. A modern twist was added by the inclusion of striking yellow features around the collar and sleeves as a nod to the iconic yellow which Wynnum teams have predominately worn over the past 60 years.
Every Wynnum Wolves FC player – from Mini-Roos to Masters – has stepped out in the striking centenary jersey across the 2021 season. All players will keep their jerseys at season’s end as a special keepsake of their involvement in the centenary year.
