Jaryd Cachia (born 8 May 1991) is an

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er who played for Carlton in the

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(AFL). The grandson of

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, Cachia played school football for St Kevin's College before joining the Northern Knights. He co-captained the Victorian Metropolitan Under 16s team with

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in the national competition. He played his first

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game for the Knights at the age of 16 in 2007, eventually playing 21 games for the Knights over three years.

AFL career

Cachia was drafted by the

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with its first round selection in the 2010 AFL rookie draft (No. 15 overall). He spent two seasons playing in the senior team of Carlton's , the

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, but did not play an AFL game for Carlton during this time. At the conclusion of the 2011

season, Cachia was delisted by the

. After being delisted, Cachia played for Norwood in the

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in 2012; Cachia finished in the top five for the

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and was part of Norwood's premiership team. After the season, Carlton re-drafted Cachia to the AFL with its first round selection in the 2013 AFL Rookie Draft (No. 9 overall). Cachia made his senior AFL debut for Carlton in Round 6, 2013, and played regularly for most of the rest of the season, managing a total of fourteen games. He remained on the Carlton list in 2014, but did not play another senior game and was delisted at the end of the year.

Post AFL career

Since leaving the AFL system, Cachia has played for the Richmond reserves in the VFL (2015), another stint at Norwood (2016), Strathmore (2017–18) and

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(2019) in the

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in the

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(where he signed in 2020 but never played because the season was cancelled due to the

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), and St Kevin's Old Boys in the

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(2021).

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{{DEFAULTSORT:Cachia, Jaryd Australian rules footballers from Victoria (state) Carlton Football Club players Northern Bullants players Norwood Football Club players 1991 births Living people People educated at St Kevin's College, Melbourne Northern Knights players St Mary's Football Club (NTFL) players 21st-century Australian sportsmen Australian people of Maltese descent