Irving Mosquito (born 24 August 2000) is a former professional

Australian rules football Australian football, also called Australian rules football or Aussie rules, or more simply football or footy, is a contact sport played between two teams of 18 players on an Australian rules football playing field, oval field, often a modified ...

er who played for the

Essendon Football Club The Essendon Football Club, nicknamed the Bombers or colloquially the Dons, is a professional Australian rules football club that plays in the Australian Football League (AFL), the game's premier competition. The club was formed by the McCrac ...

in the

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(AFL). He was drafted by the Essendon Football Club with the 38th pick in the 2018 national draft.

Early football

Mosquito played for the

Gippsland Power The Gippsland Power is an Australian rules football team in the Talent League, the top statewide under-18 competition in Victoria, Australia. Honours *Premierships (1): 2005 *Runners-up (3): 1999, 2010, 2012 *Minor Premiers (3): 2005, 2007, 2 ...

in the

NAB League The Talent League (also known as the Coates Hire, Coates Talent League under naming rights and previously as the National Australia Bank, NAB League and Transport Accident Commission, TAC Cup) is an under-19 Australian rules football representa ...

for two seasons. Mosquito was selected to play for Vic Country in the

AFL Under 18 Championships The AFL National Championships is an annual Australian national underage representative Australian rules football tournament. Since taking over as national governing body in 1995, the AFL has gradually restructured the competition into a primar ...

, but was unable to get a game due to injury. He was a member of the Hawthorn's Next Generation Academy program, which gave the Hawks the right to match any draft selection made by other clubs during the

2018 AFL draft The 2018 AFL draft consisted of the various periods where the 18 clubs in the Australian Football League (AFL) traded and recruited players following the completion of the 2018 AFL season. For the first time, the AFL draft featured live trading ...

. However, they chose not to match

Essendon Essendon may refer to: Australia *Essendon, Victoria **Essendon railway station **Essendon Airport *Essendon Football Club, in the Australian Football League *Electoral district of Essendon *Electoral district of Essendon and Flemington United Kin ...

's bid at selection 38.

AFL career

Mosquito made his debut for

in the Dreamtime match, played in Darwin, in the 13th round of the

2020 AFL season The 2020 AFL season was the 124th season of the Australian Football League (AFL), the highest level senior men's Australian rules football competition in Australia, which was known as the Victorian Football League until 1989. The season featur ...

, scoring two goals. After four games, Mosquito awkwardly twisted his left knee and ruptured his anterior cruciate ligament, an injury that forced him to miss the 2021 season. On 13 September 2021, Essendon delisted him after playing just four games in two years, due to his lack of desire to return to AFL level after suffering the injury.

Statistics

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Personal life

Mosquito moved to

Briagolong Briagolong is a town in the Australian state of Victoria, located 20 kilometres north of Maffra and some 238 kilometres east of Melbourne, in the Shire of Wellington region of Gippsland. At the 2016 census, Briagolong had a population of 1,081. ...

Gippsland Gippsland () is a rural region in the southeastern part of Victoria, Australia, mostly comprising the coastal plains south of the Victorian Alps (the southernmost section of the Great Dividing Range). It covers an elongated area of east of th ...

at the age of 12. He was educated at Gippsland Grammar.

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* * {{DEFAULTSORT:Mosquito, Irving 2000 births Living people Essendon Football Club players Gippsland Power players Australian rules footballers from Victoria (state) 21st-century Australian sportsmen