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Brendan Fevola
Personal information
Full name	Brendan Fevola
Nickname(s)	Fev, The Shag
Date of birth	20 January 1981 (1981-01-20) (age 28)
Recruited from	Beaconsfield, Victoria/Dandenong Stingrays (TAC Cup)
Draft	38th overall, 1998 Carlton
Height/Weight	191cm / 100kg
Position(s)	Full-forward
Club information
Current club	Carlton
Number	25
Playing career1
Years	Club	Games (Goals)
1999-	Carlton	177 (529)
State team honours
2008	Victoria	1 (6)
1 Playing statistics to end of Rnd 13, 2009 season .

Brendan 'Fev' Fevola (born 20 January 1981) is an Australian rules footballer currently playing with the Carlton Football Club in the Australian Football League.

He is a noted full-forward, having won the Coleman Medal in 2006 (kicking 84 goals), despite Carlton finishing last that season. He is also notable for his appearances on the Nine Network's Footy Show on Thursday nights during the season. He wears No. 25, the same number worn by former Carlton legend Alex Jesaulenko.

[edit] Football career

[edit] Early career

Fevola was recruited to Carlton with selection No. 38 overall in the 1998 AFL Draft.

[edit] 2004 season

For the 2004 season, Fevola developed a ritualistic set-shot routine of three steps, often taking over a minute to complete (thus attracting the ire of many media personnel).

[edit] 2006 season

2006 has proven to be Fevola's best year of AFL to date scoring 84 goals and winning the coveted Coleman Medal

[edit] 2008 season

99 goals for the season was Brendan Fevola's output

in season 2008- seeing him finish second to Lance Franklin for the Coleman Medal

[edit] 2009 Season

[edit] Criticism

Fevola has often been criticised for his on-field body language, lack of respect for others in the wider community and general poor behaviour in the public arena. Off field incidents have included assaulting a barman during a tour of Ireland.^[1] This resulted in Fevola being sent back to Australia which embarrassed the AFL. Annually, there is media-fuelled speculation regarding whether or not the club would become fed up with this behaviour and trade Fevola, but every year so far he has been retained. However, in 2006 the coach Denis Pagan labelled him "a perfect role model" after the turnaround of his form.^{[citation needed]} The "perfect role model" tag is now a distant memory considering Fevola's continuing innapropriate behaviour such as being caught on CCTV urinating on a window outside a Melbourne nightclub in March 2008. Fevola was subsequently fined $10,000 by the Club and stood down from the leadership group; he was neither suspended nor delisted by Carlton who argued that such action would not assist Brendan in addressing his issues. Many commentators are wondering what it will take for Fevola to address his behavioural issues. Most recently Brendan Fevola shocked patrons at a city bar after parading in a nightie with a sex toy protruding from his pants during Mad Monday celebrations on 1 September 2008. Fevola's costume, a pink nightie with a matching pink hat and a sex toy penis was in bad taste according to various members of the community. The press had Brendan Fevola stating " We've had a bad year, and this is just a bit of harmless fun!".

[edit] Career bests

12 Goals:
During the special New Years' Eve Millennium Match against Collingwood on 31 December 1999.
8 Goals:
8.6 in Round 12, 2008 against Collingwood
8.5 in Round 13, 2004 against Richmond
8.4 in Round 3, 2008 (including 3 posters) against Essendon
8.4 in Round 6, 2009 (including 1 poster) against Hawthorn
8.3 in Round 19, 2006 against Hawthorn
8.3 in Round 11, 2008 against Brisbane
8.3 in Round 11, 2009 against Brisbane
8.2 in Round 3, 2007 against Essendon in a thrilling comeback for the Blues.
8.2 in Round 5, 2003 against North Melbourne
7 Goals:
7.3 in Round 22, 2008 against Hawthorn.
7.2 in Round 11, 2004 against Adelaide
7.2 in Round 4, 2008 against Collingwood
7.1 in Round 13, 2008 against Essendon
7.0 in Round 5, 2008 against Melbourne

He has also kicked two bags of eight in pre-season games, in the 2005 Wizard Cup grand final against West Coast, earning him the Michael Tuck Medal, and in the semi-final of the 2007 NAB Cup against North Melbourne.

[edit] Personal Life

Fevola is a regular panellist on The Footy Show on the Nine Network, and is noted for his larrikin-like persona. Memorable appearances on the show include his appearance late in 2005 where he shaved off his trademark dreadlocks (for which he has attracted the secondary nickname "the Shaggin Wagon") for charity and performed with teammates on the annual Player's Revue singing Achy Breaky Heart in 2005, and U Can't Touch This in 2006.

On the 7 October 2005 Fevola married Alex Cheatham at St John's Church in Toorak. However, on the 12 December 2006 it was announced that they were separated after only 14 months of marriage, amid allegations of Fevola's infidelity with an Australian model, rumoured to be Lara Bingle^[2]. Alex sold her side of the story to Woman's Day and claimed in the interview that Fevola had become "disconnected" from her following the birth of Leni. Bingle later confessed to the five week affair, that being a Sydney girl, she did not know that Fevola was married until she heard his baby in the background during a phone conversation.^[3]

Fevola has two daughters, an adopted daughter Mia, who is Alex's child from a previous relationship and a biological daughter Leni Jay, born 21 July 2006. On May 30, Alex confirmed to the Sunday Herald Sun that she was pregnant with Fevola's second child while the pair were briefly reconcilled, the child is due on Christmas Day.

For a while Fevola owned a resturant called Fellini located in Toorak road, South Yarra. but has since sold it.

Fevola has also been noted as studying criminology via correspondence at Griffith University and says that becoming a police officer is a possible career after football.^{[citation needed]} He has also considered the option of pursuing a punting career in the United States with the NFL, following in the footsteps of Australians Ben Graham, Darren Bennett, and more recently Saverio Rocca.

[edit] References

1. ^ Fevola in bar brawl
2. ^ Bingle blamed for Fevola marriage break-up
3. ^ Bingle 'clears the decks' on Fevola affair from brisbanetimes.com.au

[edit] External links

• Brendan Fevola profile on the Official AFL Website of the Carlton Football Club
• Brendan Fevola's statistics from AFL Tables
• Brendan Fevola Profile in Blueseum

[edit] See also

• List of VFL/AFL players by ethnicity
• List of Australian rules football incidents