James Thiessen (born 10 February 1974) is a former

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er who played for the

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and

Adelaide Football Club The Adelaide Football Club, nicknamed the Crows, is a professional Australian rules football club based in Adelaide, South Australia that was founded in 1990. The Crows have fielded a men's team in the Australian Football League (AFL) since 199 ...

in the

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(AFL), as well as

Norwood Football Club The Norwood Football Club, nicknamed the Redlegs, is an Australian rules football club competing in the South Australian National Football League (SANFL). Its home ground is Norwood Oval, Coopers Stadium (Norwood Oval), which is often referred ...

in the

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(SANFL). His father

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had played league football three decades earlier. Playing mainly on the wing, Thiessen started his AFL career at Richmond in 1993, debuting in a 139-point loss to his future club , but was delisted after just one season. He spent the next four years with Norwood in the

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, playing in their 1997 premiership side and also winning a

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that year for his performance for South Australia in an interstate match against the ACT. Thiessen was recruited by the Adelaide Crows for the 1998 season and played in their winning

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that year against

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. He remained with them for two more seasons before returning to Norwood.

Playing statistics

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1993 The United Nations General Assembly, General Assembly of the United Nations designated 1993 as: * International Year for the World's Indigenous People The year 1993 in the Kwajalein Atoll in the Marshall Islands had only 364 days, since its ...

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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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References

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{{DEFAULTSORT:Thiessen, James 1974 births Living people Richmond Football Club players Adelaide Football Club players Adelaide Football Club premiership players Norwood Football Club players Australian rules footballers from Victoria (state) VFL/AFL premiership players People educated at Haileybury (Melbourne)