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Brendan Fevola's girl Lulu has revealed that her AFL awesome dada is still lacing up his boots to play parkland footy connected nan weekends aft swearing he was yet retired past year.
The erstwhile Carlton and Brisbane guardant played his last lucifer for nan Diamond Valley Super Rules Football Club successful Melbourne's north-east successful 2023 - aliases truthful he said astatine nan time.
'It was my 4th elder expansive last and I americium done,' he said.
'I went retired connected a premiership. After 37 years of nan crippled I've loved truthful overmuch and has fixed maine truthful overmuch more.
Fevola smiles pinch nan trophy on pinch his daughters Leni and Lulu aft winning a expansive last successful 2023
'It's clip to opportunity goodbye. What a measurement to decorativeness pinch a flag. I'm cooked.'
But now his girl Lulu has posted a video clip of her beloved 43-year-old dada still playing competitory parkland footy pinch nan complete 35's.
The clip posted to TikTok shows nan burly bull guardant hit a defender and kicking astatine goal.
'Us bc (because) this man refuses to retire,' she captioned nan video.
Fevola had a chequered AFL career, debuting successful 1999 for Carlton and playing 204 first-grade matches, kicking 623 goals.
While he dominated successful reserve people successful 1999 - kicking 42 goals - earlier making his AFL debut successful nan No.25 guernsey made celebrated by Carlton fable Alex Jesaulenko, Fevola struggled to construe that shape to nan apical grade.
A drawstring of mediocre matches, mediocre assemblage connection connected nan section and a number of off-field incidents had Carlton had elder coach Wayne Brittain fresh to waste and acquisition aliases delist Fevola astatine nan extremity of nan 2002 season.
It was fortunate for nan Blues he didn't, arsenic Fevola abruptly recovered a rich | vein of shape that led to him becoming a seven-time starring goalkicker for nan nine from 2003-09, a two-time Coleman Medal victor successful 2006 and 2009 and a three-time All Australian.
Fevola (pictured pinch his family) had a colourful AFL profession that debuted successful 1999
A fresh-faced Fevola smiles for his squad image up of nan 2001 play pinch Carlton
Off-field issues continued to plague nan cardinal forward, though, culminating successful him infamously trading his 2nd Coleman Medal to money his gambling addiction.
It led Carlton to make nan daze telephone to waste and acquisition him to nan Brisbane Lions successful 2009.
Fevola would only play 17 matches for his caller squad successful 2010, spending clip successful a Brisbane intelligence wellness session and struggling to reside his demons.
Spat retired of nan AFL strategy astatine nan extremity of nan 2010 season, Fevola would proceed playing successful little divisions astir nan country, including Victoria and Tasmania.
