With assistance from the Australian Embassy in the United Arab Emirates (UAE), on 9 February 2008, teams from Adelaide and Collingwood play an official Australian Football League-National Australia Bank Cup match at Ghantoot Stadium in the desert between Abu Dhabi and Dubai. L–R: Mr Jeremy Bruer, Australian Ambassador to the UAE; HE Rear Admiral Kevin Scarce AC CSC RANR, Governor of South Australia; Andrew Demetriou, CEO of the AFL; HE Mohammed Al Kindi, the then UAE Minister for the Environment and Water; HE Sheikha Lubna Al Qasimi, the then UAE Minister for the Economy; the Hon John Brumby MLA, Premier of Victoria. Photo courtesy of Australian Football League

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