Ben Reid (born 29 April 1989) is a former

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er who played for Collingwood in the

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(AFL).

Personal life

Reid grew up in

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Victoria, attending Galen Catholic College. He is the son of former Footscray and Carlton player,

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. His younger brother Sam Reid also plays AFL football for the

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AFL career

Reid was taken with Collingwood's first pick in the 2006 AFL Draft, pick number eight, and was handed the number 20 guernsey which was vacated by

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, after he was traded to the

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. Reid made his Collingwood debut in Round 13, 2007 against Hawthorn, aged 18 years and 2 months. He was the youngest player in the AFL at the time. Originally recruited as a forward, he is now recognised as one of the best key defenders in the game. He previously played for the

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, Wangaratta Rovers and Bright Junior Football Club.

2010

Prior to 2010 Reid had only played a cumulated total of 8 games from 2007 to 2009. 2010 would become his breakout year when he went on to play 21 games out of a possible 26. In round 12 he was nominated for the AFL Rising Star award, and went on to finish 10th overall. Reid played in both

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opposite St Kilda's

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. In the Grand Final replay Reid suffered a leg injury, but wanted to play on and finish the game. It was later discovered that he had continued to play with a fractured fibula.

2011

Reid continued his good form and was rewarded with selection in the 2011 All-Australian team in the

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position and a seventh placing in the

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, Collingwood's best and fairest award. However his season finished on a poor note, being well beaten by Tom Hawkins in the

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. He had injured his

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in the lead up to the Qualifying Final, three weeks earlier.

Retirement

Reid announced his retirement from AFL football in late 2020 after only managing two games for the season due to injury.

Statistics

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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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2009 2009 was designated as the International Year of Astronomy by the United Nations to coincide with the 400th anniversary of Galileo Galilei's first known astronomical studies with a telescope and the publication of Astronomia Nova by Joha ...

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2012 2012 was designated as: *International Year of Cooperatives *International Year of Sustainable Energy for All Events January *January 4 – The Cicada 3301 internet hunt begins. * January 12 – Peaceful protests begin in the R ...

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2015 2015 was designated by the United Nations as: * International Year of Light * International Year of Soil __TOC__ Events January * January 1 – Lithuania officially adopts the euro as its currency, replacing the litas, and becomes ...

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2016 2016 was designated as: * International Year of Pulses by the sixty-eighth session of the United Nations General Assembly. * International Year of Global Understanding (IYGU) by the International Council for Science (ICSU), the Internationa ...

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2018 Events January * January 1 – Bulgaria takes over the Presidency of the Council of the European Union, after the Estonian presidency. * January 4 – SPLM-IO rebels loyal to Chan Garang Lual start a raid against Juba, capital of ...

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2019 This was the year in which the first known human case of COVID-19 was documented, preceding COVID-19 pandemic, the pandemic which was declared by the World Health Organization the following year. Up to that point, 2019 had been described as ...

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* * {{DEFAULTSORT:Reid, Ben Living people 1989 births Collingwood Football Club players Collingwood Football Club premiership players Sportspeople from Wangaratta Australian rules footballers from Victoria (state) Murray Bushrangers players Wangaratta Rovers Football Club players All-Australians (AFL) Cooperative advocates VFL/AFL premiership players 21st-century Australian sportsmen