Sonny Bill calls for more diversity in NRL administration

FILE PHOTO: Rugby League - Super League - Leeds Rhinos v Toronto Wolfpack - Headingley Stadium, Leeds, Britain - March 5, 2020. Toronto Wolfpack's Sonny Bill Williams. Action Images/Lee Smith

MELBOURNE (Reuters) - Sonny Bill Williams has called for more diversity in Australia's National Rugby League (NRL), where minorities dominate playing rosters but have comparatively little representation in administration.

Williams, who has returned to Australia to take up a short-term deal with champions Sydney Roosters, called on prominent NRL figure Phil Gould to promote Pacific islanders and Indigenous Australians in his recently announced role as a consultant at the New Zealand Warriors.