Rale Rasic meets some locals

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Former Socceroos coach Rale Rasic toured Toowoomba today to meet some of the locals as part of the Festival of Football.

His first stop was the official announcement of the Brisbane Roar versus Melbourne Heart match which will be held in Toowoomba on Friday 25 June.

Then Mr Rasic stopped by the Endeavour Foundation where members are helping to put together participants- packs for tomorrow-s Athletes with Disabilities Games at the USQ Clive Berghofer Recreation Centre from 9.30am - 2pm.

A special presentation was the purpose of a visit to St Anthony-s Primary School this afternoon.

Mr Rasic autographed a commerative Festival of Football t-shirt and presented it to Year 1 student Amelia Waters in a special school assembly.

Amelia was one of the five winners of the Festival of Football Junior Art Competition where primary school students from across the region entered drawings based on the theme ‘My town loves football-.

The winning drawings are now the front cover artwork for a series of postcards which will be used to send messages of support to the Socceroos in South Africa during the World Cup.

National Australia Bank has supported the competition by sponsoring the printing and postage of postcards.

Amelia was presented with an armful of postcards to share amongst her peers who participated in the competition.

Mr Rasic will conduct a coaching training session with the SWQ U19 and Toowoomba Raiders teams at 6pm at West Wanderers football club tonight.

He will then attend tomorrow-s Athletes with Disabilities Games before joining his wife Debra Rasic at the Festival Grand Dinner at Rumours International.