Brendan Fevola has revealed everyone in his family was crying after he shared the news about his induction into the Carlton Football Club Hall of Fame.
The Blues announced the news on Monday morning ahead of the club’s gala event at Crown in Melbourne on Monday night — and the 43-year-old admits he was shocked when first told the news.
The Carlton great said on his breakfast radio show he has kept the news secret for months, despite describing it as the biggest moment of his football career.
One of the AFL’s last great larrikins and a showman, Fevola booted 575 goals in his 187 games at Carlton after being taken at pick 38 in the 1998 draft, NCA NewsWire reports.
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A fan favourite, he was a two-time Coleman Medal winner as the AFL’s leading goalkicker in 2006 and 2009, an award he won at his club seven consecutive times from 2003 to 2009.
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