Max Basheer — the football administrator who oversaw the creation of the Adelaide Crows and the purpose-built stadium Football Park — has died aged 98.

Basheer safeguarded the SANFL through crisis after crisis, eventually emerging with two of Australia's leading AFL teams.

He was born in Adelaide in 1927, raised in the timber town of Kalangadoo, and lined up as a footballer at Prince Alfred College.

Despite his successful start as a lawyer, Basheer found a passion for the tribunals of Australian rules football. Loading

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