- The football legend is back to play footy at the 35-year-old park
- Fevola’s daughter says her father refuses to retire
- Fevola made his debut for Carlton in 1999
Brendan Fevola’s daughter Lulu has revealed her AFL grandfather still laces up his boots to play footy at the weekend after she swore he finally retired last year.
The former Carlton and Brisbane forward played his final game for Diamond Valley Super Rules Football Club in Melbourne’s north-east in 2023 – or so he said at the time.
“It was my fourth senior grand final and I finished,” he said.
“I left for a post of Prime Minister. After 37 years of playing, I have loved so much and given so much more to myself.
Fevola smiles with the trophy with her daughters Leni and Lulu after winning a 2023 grand final
‘It’s time to say goodbye. What a way to end with a flag. I’m exhausted.
But now his daughter Lulu has released a video clip of her beloved 43-year-old father still playing competitive football with the over-35s.
The clip posted to TikTok shows the beefy bull attacker beating a defender and kicking at goal.
“Us because (because) this man refuses to retire,” she captioned the video.
Fevola had an eventful AFL career, making his debut in 1999 for Carlton and playing 204 first grade matches, kicking 623 goals.
While he dominated the reserves in 1999 – scoring 42 goals – before making his AFL debut in the No.25 Guernsey made famous by Carlton legend Alex Jesaulenko, Fevola struggled to translate that form to the most high level.
A series of poor games, poor body language on the field and a number of off-field incidents led to Carlton convincing senior coach Wayne Brittain that they were prepared to trade or write off Fevola at the end of the season 2002.
It was fortunate for the Blues that he didn’t, as Fevola suddenly found a rich vein of form that led him to become the club’s top scorer seven times from 2003 to 2009, twice winning the Coleman Medal in 2006 and 2009. and three times All Australian.
Fevola (pictured with his family) had a colorful AFL career which began in 1999
A fresh-faced Fevola smiles for his team portrait ahead of the 2001 season with Carlton
However, off-field problems continued to plague the key striker, culminating in the infamous sale of his second Coleman Medal to fund his gambling addiction.
This led to Carlton making the shock decision to trade him to the Brisbane Lions in 2009.
Fevola played just 17 matches for his new team in 2010, spending time in a Brisbane mental health clinic and struggling to deal with his demons.
Rejected from the AFL system at the end of the 2010 season, Fevola would go on to play in the lower divisions across the country, including Victoria and Tasmania.
