Joe Reaiche
| Joe Reaiche | |
|---|---|
| Born |
Joseph Reaiche 20 March 1958 New South Wales, Australia |
| Nationality | Australian |
| Other names | Joseph Reaiche, Panther Reaiche |
| Occupation | Former rugby player |
| Spouse(s) | Carol Masterson (m. 1985; div. 1995) |
| Children |
Alanna Masterson (daughter) Jordan Masterson (son) |
Joseph "Joe" Reaiche (REESH; born 20 March 1958) is an Australian Rugby League football player of the late-1970s and early-1980s. He played in the New South Wales Rugby League Football Competition (NSWRL); now called the National Rugby League; NRL. He debut his rookie year with the Eastern Suburbs Roosters Rugby League team (now the Sydney Roosters) in 1978, then with the Canterbury Bulldogs and the South Sydney Rabbitohs. He is the father of American actress Alanna Masterson.
Joe was born in the suburb of Redfern in Sydney, Australia; and is the middle sibling of a younger brother and sister and two older sisters. He began playing Rugby League with his brother Tony with the local kids at Redfern Park that was adjacent to Redfern Oval; home to the famous Rugby League football team the South Sydney Rabbitohs, currently owned by Australian actor Russell Crowe and Billionaire James Packer.
Early in Joe's career most Australians were not favorable towards any foreign immigrants, and Joe's Lebanese heritage was not spared their wrath either. Despite this issue neither discrimination, bullying or racism; never wavered Joe nor his brother's passion to play footy and would always watch the Rabbitoh games by climbing the Oval's 10-foot high barbed wire fence.
By the age of 10 Reaiche went to St Mary’s Cathedral College, Sydney a Roman Catholic Secondary School in the city; where he played in his first official Rugby League team. He also was selected to play representative district football for the Sydney Roosters Juniors. This accomplishment; while excelling at school academically; spared him from ever being expelled despite constant reprimanding, detention and corporal punishment by the Christian Brothers.
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