- Footy has played over 200 AFL matches
- This 43-year-old is now a top radio star
- Revealed a stunning phone call Monday
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Days after a statue was unveiled in his honor, Carlton great goalscorer Brendan Fevola was added to the club’s Hall of Fame, revealing his family were in tears when he finally shared the news.
One of the AFL’s last great larrikins and a showman, Fevola kicked 575 goals in his 187 games at Carlton after being picked 38th overall in the 1998 draft.
A fan favorite, he twice won the Coleman Medal as the AFL’s top scorer in 2006 and 2009, an award he won at his club seven consecutive times from 2003 to 2009.
Brendan Fevola (pictured playing for the Blues in 2005) was inducted into the Carlton Hall of Fame in what he describes as the highlight of his footballing career.
The 43-year-old said the phone call which broke the news left him, his wife Alex and daughters Leni, Lulu, Tobi and Mia (pictured together) in tears of joy.
Fevola scored a memorable 99 goals in 2008, falling woefully short of a century as his side failed to qualify for the final.
Now a breakfast radio presenter, Fevola kept Monday morning a secret for months and described it as the greatest moment of his football career, which made him emotional when he told it. told his wife and daughters Leni, Lulu, Tobi and Mia.
“It’s by far the greatest thing that has ever happened to me in my football career,” he said on his Fox FM show.
“To be inducted into a club where you walk through the halls of the old Heatley Stand, you have all the ex-players and I was just a 17 year old kid with a pimply face, I had no idea about Nazza Wazza (suburb of Melbourne). Narre Warren) and then now to be inducted among these greats, I don’t even know what I told you.
“I think I texted you about two hours later, once I figured it out because I don’t even know what I said.”
Last week, he was recognized with a statue in Narre Warren, where he grew up, with the Hall of Fame, another nod to his distinguished career on the field.
The full forward scored 575 goals in his 187 games for Carlton from 1999 to 2009.
Fevola (centre, with his radio co-stars Fifi Box, right, and Nick Cody, left) is pictured with a statue unveiled in his honor in Narre Warren, the Melbourne suburb where he grew up.
“I obviously told Alex and the girls and they all cried because the girls didn’t think I was good because they were young.
“They think Charlie Curnow is way better than you and Carlton Football Club is 40 times better than you ever were. Shut up kids, watch the highlights.
Carlton chairman Luke Sayers said Fevola was a “leading figure of the sport”.
“The way he played with such showmanship, talent and enthusiasm attracted so many people, not only to the club, but to follow him even as opposition supporters,” he said. he declared.
Fevola left the Blues to join the Brisbane Lions in 2010 amid a host of off-field issues, including gambling problems.
He lasted only one season with the Lions and finished his career with 623 goals.
He will be enshrined in the Hall of Fame alongside former players Jack Carney and Neil Chandler.