Gavin Crosisca

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Gavin Crosisca
Personal information
Date of birth	(1968-09-15) 15 September 1968
Place of birth	Brisbane, Queensland
Original team	Western Districts Australian Football Club
Debut	Round 1, 1987 v. Sydney Swans, at Victoria Park
Height/Weight	188cm / 90kg
Playing career¹
Collingwood (1987–2000) 246 games, 64 goals
¹ Playing statistics correct to end of Round 22, 2000 season.
Career highlights
1990 Collingwood premiership team State of Origin appearances

Gavin Crosisca (born 15 September 1968 in Brisbane, Queensland) is a former Australian rules footballer in the VFL/AFL.

Debuting in the VFL 1987 with the Collingwood Football Club, Crosisca was recruited from Western Districts Australian Football Club in Queensland. He played in the 1990 premiership side with the Magpies, and played State of Origin football for three teams: Queensland, Victoria and The Allies. Crosisca was just the third Queensland born footballer to play 200 games. He retired from the game in 2000.

Following his retirement from AFL football, Crosisca has held a number of coaching positions. In 2001 and 2002, he was an assistant coach at the Kangaroos under Denis Pagan, before shifting to Hawthorn in 2003. From 2005 until 2006, Crosisca was the head coach of the North Ballarat Roosters in the Victorian Football League. By 2007 Crosisca was again under Pagan as an assistant at Carlton however this stint was to be his last in the AFL ranks.

In September 2009 Crosisca signed on to be senior coach of the Heidelberg Football Club in Melbourne's Northern Football League for the 2010 season. In May 2011 Crosisca resigned from his position as senior coach at Heidelberg for personal reasons.

In 2012, Crosisca admitted to the public that he was addicted to recreational drugs like alcohol, marijuana and amphetamines throughout his VFL/AFL career and afterward. http://www.news.com.au/sport/afl/grog-and-drugs-cost-me-the-lot-collingwood-1990-premiership-star-gavin-crosisca/story-fnelctok-1226476895805

External links

Full Points Footy Queensland Team of the Century profile for Gavin Crosisca

v t e Collingwood Football Club 1990 AFL Premiers

Collingwood 13.11 (89) defeated Essendon 5.11 (41), at the Melbourne Cricket Ground

Captain: 22. Shaw 1. Monkhorst 2. Francis 3. Gayfer 7. Morwood 12. Banks 17. Barwick 19. Wright 21. Christian 23. Kelly 24. Turner 26. Brown 27. Starcevich 28. Crosisca 29. Russell 30. Manson 34. McGuane 35. Daicos 42. Millane 44. Kerrison

Coach: Matthews

Persondata
Name	Crosisca, Gavin
Alternative names	Baga
Short description	Australian rules footballer
Date of birth	15 September 1968
Place of birth	Brisbane, Queensland, Australia
Date of death
Place of death

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