Junior footy crowd includes Clearys and Alameddines

As young rugby league players went toe-to-toe at Campbelltown, the assorted crowd in the stands included both Penrith’s Ivan and Nathan Cleary, and Hamdi Alameddine, an alleged member of the crime clan carrying his surname.

As the best teenage rugby league players in the state went toe-to-toe, there were both famous and infamous surnames in the grandstand.

Hamdi Alameddine, an alleged member of the crime clan carrying his surname, watched on from the crowd at a schoolboy rugby league clash on Wednesday.

Alameddine is a regular target of NSW Police and has been mentioned in serious crime prevention orders (SCPOs) as being unable to associate with alleged crime clan leader Rafat Alameddine and been pulled over for offences as minor as failing to indicate for the required five-second time span.

But as the registered tree lopper sat watching on with other relatives in designer labels, he looked relaxed.

Hamdi Alameddine (left) casts an eye over a schoolboy footy game at Campbelltown Sports Stadium.

Hamdi Alameddine (left) is a regular target of NSW Police, but looked relaxed as he watched on in the grandstand.

Jett Cleary in action for St Dominic’s.

Ivan Cleary, left, and Nathan Cleary, right, watching son and brother Jett Cleary play.

The Alameddine clan is known to have deep ties to junior rugby league with relatives coaching several sides in the local Parramatta competition.

But it is the alleged links of several members to major crime that most often makes headlines.

Aside from the Alameddines there was also one of the best known surnames in NRL in attendance – Cleary.

Jett Cleary, the son of Penrith Panthers coach Ivan and younger brother of current captain Nathan, was continuing to carve out an impressive junior career.