Clinton King (born 24 March 1978) is an
Australian rules football
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er who played for
Sydney
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,
Collingwood and
Richmond
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in the
Australian Football League
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(AFL).
Recruited from
Eastern Ranges
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History Inaugural playing squad (1992)
Honours
*Premiers (2): 2002, 2013
*Runners-up (6): 199 ...
, King played five AFL games in 1996, the year Sydney made a drought breaking Grand Final appearance. He was traded to Collingwood in 1998 and the following season missed a lot of football after suffering a foot stress fracture.
Collingwood off-loaded King after the 1999 season, so they could get a
ruckman in
Steven McKee to their club. He broke a leg in his first year at Richmond but re-established his place in the team during the 2001 season and was a member of their finals campaign. King appeared in the Preliminary Final loss to Brisbane and performed admirably with 21 disposals.
King headed to
South Australian National Football League
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...
(SANFL) club
South Adelaide in 2004 and won the Club's best and fairest award, the Knuckey Cup. In 2005, he struggled with regularly being tagged and left the club and headed home to Melbourne at the end of the season. He is currently an assistant coach for Keysborough in the Mornington Peninsula Football League.
His father,
Derek, was a league footballer at
St Kilda, and
Liston Trophy winner in the
Victorian Football Association
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.
References
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*Holmesby, Russell and Main, Jim (2007). ''The Encyclopedia of AFL Footballers''. 7th ed. Melbourne: Bas Publishing.
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1978 births
Living people
Sydney Swans players
Collingwood Football Club players
Richmond Football Club players
Eastern Ranges players
Australian rules footballers from Victoria (state)
South Adelaide Football Club players