Brad Wira (born 16 March 1972) was an

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. He played for both the

Fremantle Football Club The Fremantle Football Club, nicknamed the Dockers or colloquially Freo, is a professional Australian rules football club competing in the Australian Football League (AFL), the sport's elite competition. The team was founded in 1994 to represen ...

and the

Western Bulldogs The Western Bulldogs are a professional Australian rules football club based in the Melbourne suburb of Footscray. The club competes in the Australian Football League (AFL), the sport's premier competition. Originally named the Footscray F ...

. He was originally drafted from

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in the WAFL as a foundation selection as part of Fremantle's entry to the

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and played mainly as a defender. After only playing a single game in Fremantle's inaugural year, Wira was traded to Footscray where he was much more successful, playing in 21 of the 22 rounds in 1996. He would play a further 40 games for the Bulldogs over the next two seasons, before he was traded back to Fremantle for the 1999 season.

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* * * 1972 births Fremantle Football Club players Claremont Football Club players Western Bulldogs players Living people Australian rules footballers from Western Australia Western Australian State of Origin players 20th-century Australian sportsmen {{AFL-bio-1970s-stub