Paul Peos (born 28 January 1968) is a former

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 who played for the

West Coast Eagles The West Coast Eagles are a professional Australian rules football club based in Perth, Western Australia. The club was founded in 1986 and first competed in 1987 as one of two expansion teams in the Australian Football League (AFL), then known ...

and

Brisbane Bears The Brisbane Bears were a professional Australian rules football club based in Brisbane, Queensland, Brisbane, Queensland, now known as the Brisbane Lions. Granted a Australian Football League, Victorian Football League (VFL), licence in 1986, ...

in the

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(AFL), and

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in the

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(WAFL). Peos is of

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descent and speaks

fluently. He holds an Economics degree from the University of Western Australia. Peos was a leading schoolboy player, and was part of the inaugural West Coast squad in 1987. He lined up in West Coast's first ever AFL game against

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on 29 March 1987, and had the first kick for his team, in a match won by West Coast 20.13 (133) to 16.23 (119). He played 11 games that season, and another 11 in 1988. Peos played his 50th game for West Coast against the

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in 1992. After playing 29 games in four seasons from 1989 to 1992, he was traded to the

for draft pick number 21. Peos played 33 games in two seasons for Brisbane, kicking 40 goals, before returning to Western Australia to play for East Perth. He nominated for the AFL pre-season draft in 1995, and was picked up by his former club the West Coast Eagles, and played four games that year, finishing his AFL career with 88 games and 64 goals. Peos continued playing for East Perth, and played a total of 121 games and scoring 59 goals. He became the stand-in East Perth coach in the latter part of 2006, nurturing talent such as

Matthew Leuenberger Matthew Leuenberger (born 7 June 1988) is a former professional Australian rules footballer who played for the Brisbane Lions and the Essendon Football Club in the Australian Football League (AFL). Leuenberger represented Western Australia in ...

. In 2007, he also took up a position as head of football coaching at

Hale School Hale School is an independent, Anglican day and boarding school for boys, located in Wembley Downs, a western suburb of Perth, Western Australia. Named after the school founded by Bishop Mathew Blagden Hale in 1858, Hale School claims to ...

References

External links

West Coast Eagles Player Profile
* * * {{DEFAULTSORT:Peos, Paul Living people 1968 births West Coast Eagles players Brisbane Bears players East Perth Football Club players East Perth Football Club coaches Morningside Australian Football Club players Australian rules footballers from Western Australia Australian people of Macedonian descent Slavic speakers of Greek Macedonia People from Manjimup, Western Australia University of Western Australia alumni