Gavin Wanganeen

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Gavin Wanganeen
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Personal information
Birth June 18, 1973 (1973-06-18) (age 34), Mount Gambier, SA
Recruited from Port Adelaide Football Club (SANFL)
Height and weight 181cm / 83kg
Playing career¹
Debut Round 2, April 1, 1991, Essendon vs. Richmond, at MCG
Team(s) Essendon (1991-1996)

127 games, 64 goals

Port Adelaide (1997-2006)

173 games, 138 goals
¹ Statistics to end of 2006 season
Career highlights

Gavin Wanganeen (born 18 June 1973) is a former Australian rules footballer. He has played in two Australian Football League premierships with Essendon and Port Adelaide. He is the first cousin of brothers Aaron and Alwyn Davey.

Wanganeen began his career aged 16 with Port Adelaide in the South Australian National Football League (SANFL) (prior to that club joining the AFL), winning the SANFL Rookie of the Year award and gaining the attention of AFL side Essendon. Wanganeen debuted for Essendon in 1991, immediately finding a niche as an attacking defender. His quality was recognised in 1993 when he won the Brownlow Medal for the best and fairest player in the league, the first part-Aboriginal Australian to do so, as well as being a key player in Essendon's premiership win that year. In 2002, he was voted the 19th best Essendon player of all time in the "Champions of Essendon" list.

Wanganeen returned to Port Adelaide in 1997 to captain Port Adelaide in its first year in the AFL, but injuries conspired to minimise his impact. He relinquished the Port Adelaide captaincy at the end of the 2000 season which saw a return to his best form, and he finished the 2003 season as a favourite to once again win the Brownlow (he finished equal second). In 2004 he played in Port's first AFL premiership side.

Wanganeen played his 300th AFL game in the 2006 season, but then injured his right knee in an SANFL game for the Port Adelaide Magpies, which forced him to retire from football. [1]

In 2000 he married Stephanie Richards and they now have 2 children - a daughter, Mia, and a son, Tex.

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1990 SANFL Grand Final and gavin wanganeen is an aborigine

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Port Adelaide Power squad – 2004 AFL Premiers (1st Title)
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1993 Essendon Bombers Premiership Players
Preceded by
Scott Wynd		 Brownlow Medallist
1993		 Succeeded by
Greg Williams
Preceded by
Matthew Primus		 Port Adelaide Best and Fairest winner
2003		 Succeeded by
Warren Tredrea
Preceded by
Inaugural		 Port Adelaide Captain
1997-2000		 Succeeded by
Matthew Primus