Early Life
The only child of Ron Barassi Snr, Ron was born in the central Victorian town of Castlemaine in 1936. The following year, Barassi Snr moved to Melbourne to play VFL football with the Melbourne Football Club. A pugnacious rover, Barassi Snr was a reserve in the Demons' 1940 premiership team before leaving to serve with the army in North Africa. Ron spent his early years in Guildford, Victoria.
Ron is a third generation Italian Australian. He is a descendent of one of the Swiss Italians of Australia who migrated to Australia in the 1850s and 1860s to areas such as Guildford, between Castlemaine and Daylesford.
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