Andrew Eccles (born 1 June 1979) is a former

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 in the

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. Eccles played

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football for the Northern Knights, and was recruited to the AFL in the

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by the

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. Eccles did not play an AFL game in his first season with the Crows, playing for Norwood in the

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where he was selected at pick 1 in the mini draft. The 17 year old Eccles played a majority of the season in Reserves for Norwood. He made his AFL debut in the 1998 season, playing 18 games and earning a rising star nomination in round 19. Playing on the wing he was the youngest member of

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1998 AFL Grand Final The 1998 AFL Grand Final was an Australian rules football game contested between the Adelaide Crows and the North Melbourne Kangaroos, held at the Melbourne Cricket Ground in Melbourne on 26 September 1998. It was the 102nd annual grand fina ...

winning team. Hamstring, knee and Achilles tendon injuries affected his performance over the next three seasons, playing only 22 AFL games. He was traded to Carlton at the end of the 2001 season as a straight swap for

Kris Massie Kris Massie (born Kristiaan Martinger, 30 May 1980) is an Australian rules football coach and former player who played for the Carlton Football Club and Adelaide Football Club in the Australian Football League (AFL). He also coached the Glenelg ...

. His time at Carlton was generally unsuccessful, and he was delisted at the end of 2003. After being delisted, he played for North Ballarat in the VFL from 2004 until 2005. He was selected in the VFL Team of the Year in 2004.

Career

: 1998–2001, 41 games, 22 goals. * Carlton: 2002–03, 13 games, 2 goals.

Statistics

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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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Player Honours

* 1998 Premiership Player

References

External links

* {{DEFAULTSORT:Eccles, Andrew Adelaide Football Club players Adelaide Football Club premiership players Carlton Football Club players North Ballarat Football Club players 1979 births Living people Northern Knights players Australian rules footballers from Victoria (state) VFL/AFL premiership players