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, ''Official AFL Website of the Melbourne Football Club'', 12 August 2008. is an

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coach and former player. He played for the

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in the

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(AFL), and is senior coach of the

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. Yze has made the fourth–highest number of appearances in the history of the Melbourne Football Club.

Early life

Adem Yze is of

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descent and born in

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, a regional city in Victoria,

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. His father Sam was one of 8 children who arrived during 1954 in Australia from a European refugee camp. Sam lived in Werribee, attended primary school and worked in market gardens. Yze's mother Vicki was one of 10 children and born in Australia to

parents from

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. He has two brothers, Damien (born Yzeir) a Victorian cricketer and VFL player, and Rodney (born Ramadan). The family moved to the Goulburn Valley and owned fruit orchids. As a child, Yze helped the family as a fruit picker at their orchids. He supported the

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, while the family either supported Richmond or Melbourne. Yze was educated at Shepparton High School. He played several sports in his youth and later was a player for the

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Football Club where his performances attracted the attention of the national Melbourne Football Club.

Playing career

Melbourne

Taken at #16 in the 1994 National AFL Draft, and debuting in 1995 with Melbourne, he was a near-permanent fixture with the club throughout his career. He remained remarkably consistent in this time, moving from half-back to the midfield and towards the end of his playing career moving between half–forward and half–back. Yze led the league for kicks in 2001, 2002 and 2004, while coming third behind Scott Camporeale and Nathan Buckley in 2000. In

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, Yze struggled with his form during the pre–season. After a disappointing performance against St Kilda in Round 1, his streak of 226 consecutive AFL appearances was put to an end, with Melbourne deciding to drop him for the Round 2 game against Hawthorn. Yze was then selected for Melbourne's Round 4 match against

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and picked up a career-high 38-possessions and kicked one goal, being named as one of the best on ground for the day. Despite seeing very little first-team action in 2008—the last year of his contract at Melbourne—Yze declared his intention to continue playing football, even if that meant he entered the draft or played at VFL level. At 30, Yze felt he could play on for another two or three years. Due to Melbourne's youth policy introduced at the end of the 2008 season, Adem was delisted after only six senior appearances for the year, in which he kicked five goals. Yze expressed his desire to play on at another AFL club in 2009, declaring he would apply for the pre–season draft, yet he conceded he had "stuff all" chances of being picked up by another club. Yze played for Melbourne from 1995 until 2008 for a total of 271 games and kicked a total of 234 goals.

Other leagues

However, Yze declared he would play on regardless in 2009, even if it was at a suburban club, such as East Burwood, where his brother Damian played. Yze played with the Box Hill Hawks and joined the Shepparton Swans a year later. In 2013 and 2014, he played with second division clubs Glen Orden and West Footscray in the Western Region Football League. Yze was known for his straight kicks and ability to kick goals from seemingly impossible angles. He kicked five goals in a game on five occasions.

Coaching career

Hawthorn Football Club assistant coach (2012–2020)

In January 2012, Yze joined Hawthorn as a part–time assistant coach under senior coach Alastair Clarkson. On 14 November 2014, Yze replaced

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as Hawthorn's backline coach under senior coach Alastair Clarkson, after previously working with the Hawks as a specialist goal–kicking and development coach for the past three seasons. Yze was credited for playing a key role in harnessing the Hawthorn players' elite kicking skills as they developed into the AFL's deadliest team in front of goal over the past two seasons, with the team's accuracy increasing from 48 per cent to 57.1 per cent during his tenure as goalkicking coach.

Melbourne Football Club assistant coach (2021–2023)

After six seasons as a assistant coach, Yze was appointed assistant coach at under senior coach Simon Goodwin for the 2021 season. The Demons would have an outstanding 2021 season in which they finished on top of the ladder and were a dominant team throughout the regular season and the finals series which was capped off with a commanding victory over the Western Bulldogs to win the 2021 premiership. Yze was a key architect in creating their league best defence that was a key factor in their historic premiership win. In the 2022 season Melbourne would continue their dominant ways extending the winning streak to 17 games, until the second half of the year in which momentum was halted and they struggled with consistency. Yze continued his role as midfield coach overseeing arguably the best midfield in the competition while their team defence still remained elite and one of the top in the competition. Near the end of the season Yze was heavily linked to the vacant GWS and Essendon senior coaching roles, however the roles were eventually awarded to then

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assistant coach Adam Kingsley and Brad Scott respectively. Yze left the Melbourne Football Club at the end of the 2023 season.

Richmond Football Club senior coach (2024–present)

Yze was appointed senior coach of the

on 21 September 2023. Yze replaced caretaker senior coach Andrew McQualter, who replaced Damien Hardwick after Hardwick stepped down in the middle of the 2023 season. In Yze's first season as Richmond senior coach, the club won only two matches for the year, finishing with the

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for the first time since

as they underwent a significant rebuild of its playing list.

Statistics

Playing statistics

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1995 1995 was designated as: * United Nations Year for Tolerance * World Year of Peoples' Commemoration of the Victims of the Second World War This was the first year that the Internet was entirely privatized, with the United States government ...

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1996 1996 was designated as: * International Year for the Eradication of Poverty Events January * January 8 – A Zairean cargo plane crashes into a crowded market in the center of the capital city of the Democratic Republic of the Congo ...

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1997 Events January * January 1 – The Emergency Alert System is introduced in the United States. * January 11 – Turkey threatens Cyprus on account of a deal to buy Russian S-300 missiles, prompting the Cypriot Missile Crisis. * January 1 ...

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1998 1998 was designated as the ''International Year of the Ocean''. Events January * January 6 – The ''Lunar Prospector'' spacecraft is launched into orbit around the Moon, and later finds evidence for Lunar water, frozen water, in soil i ...

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1999 1999 was designated as the International Year of Older Persons. Events January * January 1 – The euro currency is established and the European Central Bank assumes its full powers. * January 3 – The Mars Polar Lander is launc ...

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2000 2000 was designated as the International Year for the Culture of Peace and the World Mathematics, Mathematical Year. Popular culture holds the year 2000 as the first year of the 21st century and the 3rd millennium, because of a tende ...

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2001 The year's most prominent event was the September 11 attacks against the United States by al-Qaeda, which Casualties of the September 11 attacks, killed 2,977 people and instigated the global war on terror. The United States led a Participan ...

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2002 The effects of the September 11 attacks of the previous year had a significant impact on the affairs of 2002. The war on terror was a major political focus. Without settled international law, several nations engaged in anti-terror operation ...

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2003 2003 was designated by the United Nations as the International Year of Fresh water, Freshwater. In 2003, a Multi-National Force – Iraq, United States-led coalition 2003 invasion of Iraq, invaded Iraq, starting the Iraq War. Demographic ...

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2004 2004 was designated as an International Year of Rice by the United Nations, and the International Year to Commemorate the Struggle Against Slavery and Its Abolition (by UNESCO). Events January * January 3 – Flash Airlines Flight 60 ...

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2005 2005 was designated as the International Year for Sport and Physical Education and the International Year of Microcredit. The beginning of 2005 also marked the end of the International Decade of the World's Indigenous Peoples, Internationa ...

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2006 2006 was designated as the International Year of Deserts and Desertification. Events January * January 1– 4 – Russia temporarily cuts shipment of natural gas to Ukraine during a price dispute. * January 12 – A stampede during t ...

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2008 2008 was designated as: *International Year of Languages *International Year of Planet Earth *International Year of the Potato *International Year of Sanitation The Great Recession, a worldwide recession which began in 2007, continued throu ...

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Coaching statistics

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2022 The year began with another wave in the COVID-19 pandemic, with SARS-CoV-2 Omicron variant, Omicron spreading rapidly and becoming the dominant variant of the SARS-CoV-2 virus worldwide. Tracking a decrease in cases and deaths, 2022 saw ...

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2024 The year saw the list of ongoing armed conflicts, continuation of major armed conflicts, including the Russian invasion of Ukraine, the Myanmar civil war (2021–present), Myanmar civil war, the Sudanese civil war (2023–present), Sudane ...

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Honours and achievements

*Individual ** Keith 'Bluey' Truscott Medal: 2001 **

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: 2002 ** Australian Representative Honours in

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: 2000, 2002 ** AFL Rising Star Nominee: 1996 (Round 11) **

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: 2001

Personal life

Yze is a nominal Muslim. "As one of the first footballers of Albanian heritage to take their skills to AFL level, Adem Yze" He was the second Muslim overall to play in the AFL. Yze is married to Afijet and have two children, Jasmine and Noah.

References

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* * {{DEFAULTSORT:Yze, Adem 1977 births Living people Melbourne Football Club players Richmond Football Club coaches All-Australians (AFL) Keith 'Bluey' Truscott Trophy winners Murray Bushrangers players Australian rules footballers from Shepparton Shepparton United Football Club players Shepparton Swans Football Club players Australia international rules football team players Australian people of Albanian descent Australian Muslims 20th-century Australian sportsmen 21st-century Australian sportsmen