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Oct 01, 1961 Drouin, Victoria, Australia 62 years old
Australian rules footballer
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About Gary Ablett Sr.
- Gary Ablett Sr.
- (born 1 October 1961), is a former Australian rules footballer who represented Hawthorn and Geelong in the Australian Football League (AFL).
- Nicknamed "God", Ablett is widely regarded as one of Australian football's greatest players, and was especially renowned for his spectacular high marking and his prolific goalkicking.After making several country league representative teams, Ablett was recruited by Hawthorn from Drouin and made his professional senior debut in the 1982 season.
- However, he failed to settle down in the city and retreated to Myrtleford the following year.
- The Geelong Football Club managed to lure him back to the Victorian Football League (VFL) in 1984, where he eventually settled down to become one of the league's biggest stars during the late '80s and early '90s.
- Ablett helped Geelong to a grand final appearance in 1989, where he kicked a grand final record nine goals in a losing team.
- Ablett shocked everyone by abruptly announcing his retirement from football at the beginning of the 1991 season, but made a comeback midway through the year.
- Ablett made three more grand final appearances in the 1992, 1994, and 1995 seasons before retiring for good after the 1996 season.Ablett's individual accolades and achievements include induction into the AFL's Hall of Fame, selection in the AFL Team of the Century, selection in the Geelong Football Club Team of the Century, the 1993 AFL Players Association MVP award (now known as the Leigh Matthews Trophy), three Coleman Medals, four All-Australian jumpers, eleven State representative jumpers for Victoria, a Norm Smith Medal, the 1984 Geelong Best & Fairest, and being the leading goal-kicker for the Cats on nine occasions.
- Ablett is Geelong's all-time leading goalkicker, with 1021 goals; and, in 2006, was voted by past and present Geelong Football Club players as the greatest Geelong footballer of all time.
