Winston Abraham (born 29 September 1974) is an

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er. During his

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career he played as a half forward.

Early career

Abraham played in the Western Australian Sunday Football League for Thornlie and Kelmscott. He then played for Perth in the

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, playing only 8 games before being recruited by the

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AFL

He was a member of the

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inaugural squad and played in the Round 1 match against the

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at the

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. He was noted for his pace and ability to kick freak goals. In 1998, he moved to the

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, winning the Mark of the Year in his first season, and played in their

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Premiership side. In the first home and away game of

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, he suffered an injury that would ultimately end his career. In a freak incident, less than a minute after he entered the ground, he ran into a stationary

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(who had taken a mark more than a second earlier) and on falling landed awkwardly and damaged his left

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. After injuring the knee, he walked off the ground. He was delisted at the end of that season, after it became apparent that surgery to his knee had not been successful.

Coaching

He was assistant coach at the

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, his original club, in 2006. In 2008, Abraham was coach of

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n Sunday Football League team Kelmscott.

Playing statistics

Winston Abraham's player profile at AFL Tables
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1995 1995 was designated as: * United Nations Year for Tolerance * World Year of Peoples' Commemoration of the Victims of the Second World War This was the first year that the Internet was entirely privatized, with the United States government ...

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1996 1996 was designated as: * International Year for the Eradication of Poverty Events January * January 8 – A Zairean cargo plane crashes into a crowded market in the center of the capital city of the Democratic Republic of the Congo ...

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1997 Events January * January 1 – The Emergency Alert System is introduced in the United States. * January 11 – Turkey threatens Cyprus on account of a deal to buy Russian S-300 missiles, prompting the Cypriot Missile Crisis. * January 1 ...

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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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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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* * * {{DEFAULTSORT:Abraham, Winston Living people Indigenous Australian players of Australian rules football 1974 births Fremantle Football Club players North Melbourne Football Club players North Melbourne Football Club premiership players Western Australian State of Origin players People from Narrogin, Western Australia Perth Football Club players Australian rules footballers from Western Australia VFL/AFL premiership players