Gary Tredrea (born 6 October 1951) is a former Australian rules footballer and current assistant coach of

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in the SANFL. He is the father of

Port Adelaide Power Adelaide Football Club is a professional Australian rules football club based in Alberton, South Australia. The club's senior men's team plays in the Australian Football League (AFL), where they are nicknamed the Power, whilst its reserves ...

champion,

Warren Tredrea Warren Gary Tredrea (born 24 December 1978) is a former Australian Rules Footballer with the Port Adelaide Football Club in the Australian Football League (AFL) and former Weekday Sports Presenter on ''Nine News Adelaide''. Since his retiremen ...

VFL/SANFL career

Collingwood career

Originally from

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, the half forward flanker played 19 games and kicked 6 goals for

Collingwood Collingwood, meaning "wood of disputed ownership", may refer to: Educational institutions * Collingwood College, Victoria, an Australian state Prep to Year 12 school * Collingwood College, Durham, college of Durham University, England * Collingw ...

between 1970 and 1972.

Port Adelaide career

He was going to move to

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but instead moved to

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where he played for the

Port Adelaide Magpies Port Adelaide Football Club is a professional Australian rules football club based in Alberton, South Australia, Alberton, South Australia. The club's senior men's team plays in the Australian Football League (AFL), where they are nicknamed ...

in the

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. He made his SANFL debut in the 1973 season, playing approximately 70 games with Port and West Adelaide before his premature retirement due to a knee injury.

Coaching career

Tredrea has been a fixture with both the SANFL and AFL arms of the Port Adelaide Football Club since his playing retirement, coaching junior and reserves grades before returning to the Magpies as assistant coach to

Tim Ginever Timothy Ginever (born 13 April 1966) is a former Australian rules footballer in the South Australian National Football League (SANFL), playing for Port Adelaide. Early life Tim Ginever is the seventh of 10 children and says that Australian ...

for season 2008.

Personal life

Tredrea currently lives in

References

* *Holmesby, Russell and Main, Jim (2007). ''The Encyclopedia of AFL Footballers''. 7th ed. Melbourne: Bas Publishing. {{DEFAULTSORT:Tredrea, Gary Living people Australian rules footballers from Victoria (state) Collingwood Football Club players Port Adelaide Football Club (SANFL) players Port Adelaide Football Club players (all competitions) 1951 births