Gavin Crosisca

Gavin Crosisca
Personal information
Date of birth	(1968-09-15) 15 September 1968
Place of birth	Brisbane, Queensland
Original team(s)	Western Districts
Debut	Round 1, 1987 v. Sydney Swans, at Victoria Park
Height/Weight	188cm / 90kg
Playing career¹
Years	Club	Games (Goals)
1987–2000	Collingwood	246 (64)
¹ Playing statistics correct to the end of 2000 season.
Career highlights
Collingwood premiership player 1990 Wrecker Award 1990, 1995, 1997 State of Origin appearances

Gavin Crosisca (born 15 September 1968 in Brisbane, Queensland) is a former Australian rules footballer in the VFL/AFL.

Debuting in the VFL 1987 with the Collingwood Football Club, Crosisca was recruited from Western Districts Australian Football Club in Queensland. He played in the 1990 premiership side with the Magpies, and played State of Origin football for three teams: Queensland, Victoria and The Allies. Crosisca was just the third Queensland born footballer to play 200 games. He retired from the game in 2000.

Following his retirement from AFL football, Crosisca has held a number of coaching positions. In 2001 and 2002, he was an assistant coach at the Kangaroos under Denis Pagan, before shifting to Hawthorn in 2003. From 2005 until 2006, Crosisca was the head coach of the North Ballarat Roosters in the Victorian Football League. By 2007 Crosisca was again under Pagan as an assistant at Carlton however this stint was to be his last in the AFL ranks.

In September 2009 Crosisca signed on to be senior coach of the Heidelberg Football Club in Melbourne's Northern Football League for the 2010 season. In May 2011 Crosisca resigned from his position as senior coach at Heidelberg for personal reasons.

In 2012, Crosisca admitted to the public that he was addicted to recreational drugs like alcohol, marijuana and amphetamines throughout his VFL/AFL career and afterward.^[1]

References

↑ http://www.news.com.au/sport/afl/grog-and-drugs-cost-me-the-lot-collingwood-1990-premiership-star-gavin-crosisca/story-fnelctok-1226476895805

External links

Gavin Crosisca's profile from AustralianFootball.com

Collingwood Football Club 1990 AFL premiers

Collingwood 13.11 (89) defeated Essendon 5.11 (41), at the Melbourne Cricket Ground

1. Monkhorst 2. Francis 3. Gayfer 7. Morwood 12. Banks 17. Barwick 19. Wright 21. Christian 22. Shaw (c) 23. Kelly 24. Turner 26. Brown 27. Starcevich 28. Crosisca 29. Russell 30. Manson 34. McGuane 35. Daicos 42. Millane 44. Kerrison

Coach: Matthews

Victorian team – 1990 State of Origin

New South Wales 13.8 (86) defeated Victoria 10.16 (76), at the SCG, 22 May 1990 Victoria 14.13 (97) defeated Western Australia 8.12 (60), at the WACA Ground, 26 June 1990

Both games	Brereton Collins Morwood O'Donnell Salmon Silvagni Stoneham Weightman

vs. New South Wales	Ayres Brown Crosisca Febey Gleeson Jeffrey Langford Lovett Lyon Malakellis Scott Stynes Wright

vs. Western Australia	Ablett Anderson Bruns Couch Daicos Ezard Frawley Loewe Madden McGuane Mitchell Rice Shaw Watson

Queensland team – 1991 State of Origin (Australian rules football)

Queensland 23.14 (152) defeated Victoria 15.8 (108), at The Gabba, 16 July 1991

Ashcroft Bell Bowtell Campbell Clarke Cotter Crosisca Dickfos Gibson Hardie Kenny Lawrence Lester-Smith Luhrs McIvor Merrett (c) O'Brien Phillips Potter Taylor Toppenberg Wearne

Coach: Dare

Australian Football Alliance (The Allies) team – 1995 State of Origin

Tasmania	Bond M. Febey S. Febey Gale Minton-Connell O'Connor Pritchard Shanahan Taylor Williams

Queensland	Ashcroft Cockatoo-Collins Crosisca

New South Wales	Brownless Kelly

Northern Territory	Buckley Dhurrkay McAdam McLean White

Australian Capital Territory	Allison Pyke

Australian Football Alliance (The Allies) team – 1996 State of Origin

Tasmania	Bond Febey Fletcher Gale O'Connor Richardson Shanahan Wright

Queensland	Akermanis Ashcroft Cockatoo-Collins Crosisca Dunstall Voss

New South Wales	Crawford Doolan Roberts Stafford

Northern Territory	Buckley Burns Chisholm White

Coach: Daniher (NSW)

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