The longest-serving president of the SANFL, a leader in creating the Adelaide Football Club and a highly-respected lawyer, Max Basheer, has died.

Basheer, described by Crows chairman John Olsen as a “giant of South Australian football and sports administration”, died on Sunday night aged 98.

The sports administrator – inducted into the Australian Football Hall of Fame in 2005 – was the central figure involved in the founding of the Adelaide Football Club in 1990.

He was also the president of SANFL for 25 years from 1978 to 2003, was chairman of the SA Football Commission from 1990 to 2003 and was made a Member of the Order of Australia for services to the game of Australian football in 1988. He also has a stand named after him at Adelaide Oval.

Outside of sport, Basheer was a successfu

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