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Allan Jeffrey "Alfie" Langer AM (born 30 July 1966) is an Australian former multi-award-winning
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footballer who played in the 1980s, 1990s and 2000s and worked as an assistant coach for the Australian national team, the
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and the
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. He was one of the pre-eminent s of his era, representing
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on many occasions and holding the record for most State of Origin appearances, until being surpassed by his club, state and country team-mate
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. Langer played most of his career as captain of the
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, with whom he won the 1992
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and
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, as well as four premierships and the club's player of the year award a record five times. The Allan Langer Medal, which is the
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' player of the year award was named in his honour. Alfie's Bar at the Broncos Leagues Club is also named after him.


Early life

The youngest of
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worker Harry and mother Rita Langer's four sons, Allan Langer was born in
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on 30 July 1966. He attended
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. He grew up playing football at Ipswich's Northern Suburbs Tigers alongside his brothers and future
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(as well as
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and
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) teammates
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and
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. This combination of players would become known as "The Ipswich Connection".


Playing career

Langer was selected as an Australian rugby league schoolboy representative in 1982.


1980s

Coached at the
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by Australian former international
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, Langer was playing first grade when he was only 17 in the
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by 1986. He played as a for Ipswich and in 1987 opposed his older brother
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, who was of Wests. That year his selection from left field for the Wayne Bennett-coached Queensland side in the
1987 State of Origin series The 1987 State of Origin series saw the sixth time the annual three-match series between the New South Wales and Queensland representative rugby league football teams was contested entirely under ' State of Origin' selection rules. It saw the ...
was questioned by several key figures in the Maroons camp who called for the selection in-form Eastern Suburbs
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. It was Raudonikis who stood up for him, backing Langer's selection and he made his Queensland début in the
1987 State of Origin series The 1987 State of Origin series saw the sixth time the annual three-match series between the New South Wales and Queensland representative rugby league football teams was contested entirely under ' State of Origin' selection rules. It saw the ...
while still playing for the Jets.
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claimed in his autobiography that during a team meeting, Bennett kept going on about where they were going to hide Langer in defence. He was upset that no-one was defending him against Bennett's comments and so stood up and said "He's a Queenslander and won't let us down". Langer's superb performance, including a man-of-the-match award in the decider, silenced the critics and saw him signed on with the newly established
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team who would enter the
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in
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. Coached by Bennett and captained under
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at the Broncos, Langer developed further skill with the ball and learnt much from his mentors, and his two tries in Game I of the
1988 State of Origin series The 1988 State of Origin series was the seventh annual three-game series between the New South Wales and Queensland representative rugby league football teams to be contested entirely under ' state of origin' selection rules. Queensland enjoyed ...
saw him named Man of the Match again. He scored tries in the other two Origin fixtures as well. On the 2nd Ashes Test of the
1988 Great Britain Lions tour The 1988 Great Britain Lions tour was the Great Britain national rugby league team's 18th tour of Australasia and took place from May to July 1988. It started with a Test match (rugby league), Test match against Papua New Guinea national rugby le ...
which was played at
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, on the electronic scoreboard the message "Bullfrog - shame our favourite No 7 isn't here" was displayed in a reference to Langer being overlooked for selection by Kangaroos team manager Peter Moore in favour of Peter Sterling. Langer made his début for the Australian test side against
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due to a shoulder injury to Sterling. This made him the first Bronco to earn international representative honours. On 20 July 1988 Langer played for Australia in their record 62-point win over
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, scoring two tries. At the end of the
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Langer was named the Broncos' player of the year, then went on to score two tries in Australia's win in the 1988 World Cup final over New Zealand. Suffering a broken leg in 1989, Langer missed most of that season.


1990s

Langer's leg recovered to go on the
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. following the axing of Lewis from the Broncos and later the retirement of
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, the diminutive Langer became captain of the Broncos in 1992. Alfie then played in all three matches of the
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, scoring one try and kicking the match-winning field goal in Game II. He also won the
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for being the best player in the Match. He helped Australia retain
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during the
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and also won the
Rothmans Medal The Rothmans Medal was the premier individual award in the New South Wales Rugby League and Brisbane Rugby League competitions, and later in the Australian Rugby League, which was given to the player voted by referees as the best and fairest in ...
for best and fairest player in the
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competition that season. Along with
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, Langer was the year's top try scorer for the Broncos. He also steered his team to their maiden Premiership, winning the
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for best and fairest player on the field in the grand final. Later in the year Langer also played in Australia's 1992 Rugby League World Cup Final victory, and captained the Broncos to victory in the
1992 World Club Challenge The 1992 World Club Challenge match was contested by the 1991–92 Rugby Football League season champions Wigan Warriors, Wigan and the 1992 NSWRL season's premiers, the Brisbane Broncos. The match took place on Friday night, 30 October in Engla ...
, the first time Australian premiers had won the title on British soil. By this time Allan Langer's fame was such that he starred with his mother in the advertising campaign for Australia's top-selling bread and also had his own doll on toy store shelves. The following season saw Langer again lead the Broncos to a Premiership, the first time a team which had finished 5th in the regular season had gone on to win the competition. The years 1994–1996 were characterised by successive failures by the Broncos to win the
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Premiership. During the
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, Langer played as a for defending premiers Brisbane when they hosted British champions
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for the
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and lost. Langer then lost his position in the test squad to
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after an opening loss to
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in the
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of the
1994 Kangaroo tour The 1994 Kangaroo Tour was the 18th and last Kangaroo Tour played in the conventional format, where the Australia national rugby league team (known as the XXXX Kangaroos due to sponsorship reasons) played a number of matches against British and ...
. In 1995, Langer, along with many other high-profile players, lost their representative positions because they had signed contracts to play for the newly formed
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. However Langer won the Broncos' player of the year award every year from 1993 to 1996. He was also made captain of the Queensland State of Origin team in 1996 and was named by ''
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'' as that season's player of the year. Langer again captained the Broncos to victory in the
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and the Super League premiership. In the first game of the
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Langer was named man-of-the-match. Also that year, for the second time, Langer captained the Broncos to a second consecutive premiership when they won the 1998 NRL grand final. In 1998, Langer was also appointed Australian national team captain. That year he and his mentor, Broncos, Queensland and Australian coach, Wayne Bennett, became the first captain-coach combination to win the NRL Premiership, State of Origin and Test series in the same year. Langer's 1998 season has since been described as one of the greatest individual seasons in Australian rugby league history. After a lacklustre start to the 1999 season, Langer announced his immediate retirement from rugby league mid-year, leaving many, including teammates, bewildered as to why. His departure prompted the
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and even the
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to eulogise his contribution to the sport. However, Alfie soon came out of retirement to play in the
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for the
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.


2000s

Langer captained Warrington Wolves and took them to within one match of the
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Final in 2000. Also in 2000, Langer was honoured as a Member of the
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"for service to Rugby League football as a player at national and international levels, and as a supporter of charities, particularly those raising funds for cancer research". Later that year he was also awarded the
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. As coach of the Maroons for the
2001 State of Origin series The 2001 State of Origin series was the 20th year that the annual three-game series between the Queensland and New South Wales representative rugby league football teams was contested entirely under ' state of origin' selection rules. The series ...
, Wayne Bennett made a surprise selection of Langer – then still playing in England – for the Queensland side in the third and deciding match. His comeback was arranged by Bennett under a shroud of secrecy. There were doubts as to whether Langer, in the twilight of his playing career, would be able to withstand the physical rigours of State of Origin football. Some Sydney journalists, such as Phil Gould, questioned the state of Queensland's football talent, given that they had needed to "bring back 35-year-olds to win." However, on the night Langer set up two tries and scored one himself, leading Queensland to victory only a year after they had suffered their worst ever State of Origin defeat. Langer was subsequently lured back to the Broncos for one final season in 2002. In doing so he became the NRL's oldest player that year at 36 years and 60 days. He was named man-of-the-match in the third and deciding game of that year's State of Origin series and became the oldest player to play in State of Origin football. However, despite his good form, Brisbane were unable to win the Premiership, falling four points short of the Grand Final (losing the preliminary final to eventual premiers the
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by a scoreline of just 16-12). At the time of his retirement, Langer had made the most appearances as captain for the Brisbane Broncos and became only the third player to have been named man-of-the-match in a State of Origin game more than three times.


Post-playing

After playing Langer spent time as a restaurateur in Queensland. In 2003 Langer was one of the first four former players inducted into the Broncos official Hall of Fame. That year he considered another comeback with the Caloundra Sharks, who his older brother Kevin was coaching. During the 2007 season at the Broncos' 20-year anniversary celebration, the club announced a list of the 20 best players to play for them to date which included Langer. In February 2008, Langer was named in the list of Australia's ''100 Greatest Players'' (1908–2007) which was commissioned by the
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and
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to celebrate the code's centenary year in Australia. Langer was also inducted into the
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in 2008. In June 2008, he was chosen in the
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as a . A few months later the Brisbane Broncos appointed Allan Langer, along with
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as full-time assistant coaches to work alongside new head coach
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from the 2009 season. He has also been named as a Queensland Maroons' assistant coach under Mal Meninga for the
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. In 2009, Langer could frequently be seen running water out to Broncos players during NRL matches, and even for Australia at the end of season Four Nations tournament. In 2009 as part of the
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celebrations, Allan Langer was announced as one of the
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of Queensland for his role as a "sports legend".


Drink Driving Charge

On 29 March 2010, Langer was charged with
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. At the time of the incident, Langer was ambassador for
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brewery. He went to the Normanby Hotel in inner
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, where he was photographed dancing in his underpants in front of patrons. Langer drank 8 to 10 glasses of beer and a couple of vodkas, before driving his car. He had intended to drive all the way to his home on the Sunshine Coast, but a police patrol pulled him over in the Brisbane suburb of Everton Park. The police found Langer to be 3 times over the legal
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limit. Langer pleaded guilty to the offence in Brisbane Magistrates Court. Lion Nathan cancelled Langer's brewery ambassadorship, and he was suspended from his coaching position with the Broncos. The court banned Langer from driving a motor vehicle for eight months. However no criminal conviction was recorded, as the judge accepted Langer's argument that a conviction would hurt his football coaching career. By the following weekend Langer had returned to work as Broncos assistant coach.


Gambling

In 2015 Langer admitted he struggled with a gambling addiction for most of his career. "It is one of those things where you look back and wish you had never done it," he said.


Personal life

Langer is married to his high school sweetheart Janine. They have three children. In 2009 he became a grandfather.


Footnotes


External links


Allan Langer at stateoforigin.com.auAllan Langer at bronconet.org
* ttps://web.archive.org/web/20090226165115/http://www.abc.net.au/7.30/content/2001/s318365.htm 25/06/2001 7:30 Report Transcript: ''Langer returns to State of Origin''br>''Langer, Webcke hired as Broncos assistants'' – article at abc.net.au''Queensland Team of the Century named'' – article at nz.leagueunlimited.com
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