Your past can shape you. It doesn’t have to define you.
Rise Beyond is personal to Aguer because he knows what it feels like to have potential, opportunity and the right systems around you, and still lose your way.
A lived experience that now helps others move forward.
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Potential and opportunity
Growing up, Aguer was considered a talented footballer. He was developing within a strong NPL system, attending a private school and surrounded by people and structures that were helping him grow.
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Losing direction
During his teenage years, he made the wrong decisions, became caught in the wrong environment and eventually entered the youth justice system. He knows firsthand how quickly the wrong influences and a lack of positive direction can change a young person’s path.
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Finding a way back
Through football, positive relationships, hard work and a change in mindset, Aguer found his way back. His past shaped him, but it did not have to define what came next.
Football, community and purpose
Football helped Aguer find his way back.
It gave him positive relationships, discipline and a community to grow with. Those same lessons now shape how he mentors and supports young people.
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Represented the South Sudan community team in Victoria
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Won multiple titles with his community
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Won the VPL2 championship in 2025
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Continues to play at NPL Victoria level
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Works directly with young people as a youth mentor
Why Rise Beyond
“I want to be for young people the person I never really had.”
Today, Aguer builds relationships with young people, listens to their experiences, challenges their thinking and helps them recognise the potential they have within themselves.
Rise Beyond. Lead Forward.
One positive person can make a massive difference.
Rise Beyond brings together Aguer’s lived experience, football, mentoring work and commitment to the community to create positive opportunities for young people.
