The AFL legend, Brendan Fevola, says he has a new life opportunity after assuming a role specialized in Richmond Aflw training.
Fevola, one of the last great Larrikins and a Showman of the AFL, put 575 goals in its 187 games in Carlton after being taken in selection 38 in the 1998 draft.
A fans' favorite, was twice winner of the Coleman Medal as the main scorer of the AFL in 2006 and 2009, an award that he won in his club seven consecutive times from 2003 to 2009.
The 44 -year -old has trained Yarrawonga in the Oves and Murray football league since he retired from the game.
Richmond's female football head, Kate Sheahan, is excited to have Fevola on board.
“Having a former champion of the game so passionate and invested in women's football is exactly the type of person we want to involve in our program,” said Sheahan.
Brendan Fevola has joined Richmond as a club specialist coach of the club
Fevola said that the role was a 'new chapter' and that he had 'a new life opportunity'
'His energy is infectious; He has trained his own team, and his curriculum in the field speaks for himself. However, what has really stood out when talking with Brendan, who is, of course, a father of four girls, is his true emotion for women's football.
“Brendan will be regularly on the track in our training sessions, and our players are delighted to have it on board.”
Fevola explained that he made his decision after an informal meeting with Sheahan.
“I was taking my brain about football and asked me if I would like to follow a career as a coach and help with the girls,” said Fevola in the Fifi, Fev and Nick radio program.
'I entered there, I met the CEO, I met the AFLW girls, AFLW's boys were training.
'It was as if my first day was recruited … I had this young man feeling.
'Mon conti, which is a superstar of the Tigers, won the equivalent of Brownlow for women, not last year, the previous year. She was like “Oh, wow, this is great. Hey, Fev, can you take all my boxes to the car because I can't lift them.” She got me in the tools!
'I am quite excited to get there, I want to join training and help because I think that women's football has traveled a long way and my experience in what I know, especially front crafts and have a couple of weapons. forward down there. Yesterday I was watching the girls of the girls, in the detainees, arrested.
Fevola (in the photo with his family) played 204 games for Carlton and Brisbane between
He was a twice winner of the Coleman Medal as the main scorer of the AFL in 2006 and 2009
The Footy Great said the role was a “new chapter” and that it had “a new life opportunity.”
Fevola had an AFL cadres, debuting in 1999 for Carlton and playing 204 first -degree games.
While he dominated in a reserve in 1999, kicking 42 goals, before making his debut in the AFL in Guernsey No.25 that became famous for the legend of Carlton Alex Jesaulenko, Fevola fought to translate that form to the best qualification .
A series of poor matches, poor body language in the field and several incidents outside the field had Senior Wayne Brittain coach ready to trade or eliminate Fevola at the end of the 2002 season.
It was a luck for the blues that did not, since Fevola suddenly found a rich vein so that he led him to become a scorer seven times for the club since 2003-09, twice winner of the Coleman Medal in 2006 in 2006 and 2009 and three times all Australian.
However, the problems outside the field continued to affect the key forward, however, culminating in it selling their second Coleman medal to finance their addiction to the game.
He led Carlton to make the shock call to exchange him to Brisbane's lions in 2009.
Fevola would only play 17 games for his new team in 2010, spending time at a Brisbane mental health clinic and struggling to address his demons.
EXTIPA OF THE AFL System At the end of the 2010 season, Fevola would continue playing in lower divisions throughout the country, including Victoria and Tasmania.