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Brett Deledio

Introduction and Early Life

Brett Deledio plays professional Australian Rules football in the Australia Football League (AFL) for the Richmond Tigers Football Club. He was born on April 18, 1987 in Kyabram, Victoria,134. He weighs about 88kg and is about 1.88 metres tall. He plays in both a defensive position and midfield position and wears jersey number 3. He attended Kyabram High school where he was a promising sports man even as a young boy. His father was also reported to have been a football player for Carlton in the Victoria Football League in 1975.

Early Football Career

His football career began at a very early age in life. During his school days, he was reported to have been very good in sports especially cricket and football. It was during his early high school days that he was so enthusiastic about playing in the AFL. His early or junior football adventure culminated in his playing for Kyabram/Murray U-18 from where he was drafted into the AFL by Richmond Tigers in 2004. He was recruited during the NAB AFL national draft as priority selection number one by Richmond F,Andre Johnson Womens Jersey.C.

Professional Football Career/Achievements

Brett proved during his first season with the Tigers in 2005 that he has very good football skills and that he is a star for the future. He later won the AFL Rising Star Award after he was able to clinch forty three votes out of the available forty five votes. He also won the best first year player award from the AFL Players Association Best First Year Player Award where he was voted by his fellow players. He was also considered to be the fastest man in the AFL which helped him to win the 2005 Grand Final Sprint,Darrelle Revis youth jersey,2190. Just like the icing on the cake normally comes last, he was later chosen to be part of the Australian national team in the International Rules series of 2005 and also making history again as the youngest Australian player in the league at the end of the season.

The 2006 season was another splendid one for Brett. He played almost all the matches of the season except for one which he missed as a result of a knee injury,Andre Johnson Womens Jersey. He was able to achieve an impressive record of about 18,Nike Terrel Suggs Jersey.8 possessions and about 6.5 marks per game. He became a special target for opposition taggers but yet most were unable to stop him since he continued to rack up possessions like he would normally do. He continued in 2007 with a number of impressive appearances that indicated that he was continually getting better by the day. He was able to adapt himself into playing multiple roles in the team beside his traditional defence and midfield roles.

By the 2008 season, his outstanding performances became obvious to everybody and he was increasingly becoming the centre of attraction in matches involving Richmond Tigers. He won the AFL Army Award this season for the courage he displayed in one of the matches and he was also mentioned in the 40 man All Australia team this year. He also won the Best and Fairest Award for Richmond Tigers in 2009 after polling about 250 votes and won the award the following year in 2010,cheap new nfl jerseys. He became the youngest player to have won it back to back since 1996. He has been able to maintain an impressive and outstanding performance to date in addition to being injury free,439.