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AFL may refer to:

• American Federation of Labor, one of the first federations of labor unions in the United States, and now part of the AFL-CIO
• American Football League (a.k.a. "AFL IV") - a professional American football league that started competition in 1960, and merged with the National Football League (NFL) in 1970
• Arena Football League, an American indoor football league
• Australian Football League

AFL may also refer to:

Other sports leagues[link]

• American Fencing League, a league for amateur standard fencing competition in the United States
• American Fight League An American mixed martial arts company founded in 2006
• American Football League (AFL), a name shared by several separate and unrelated professional American football leagues:
  • American Football League (1926) (a.k.a. "AFL I") - first rival of the National Football League (NFL) that competed in 1926
  • American Football League (1934) - regional borderline-major league that competed in 1934
  • American Football League (1936) (a.k.a. "AFL II") - second rival of the NFL that competed in 1936 and 1937
  • American Football League (1938) - minor professional American football league that changed its name to the American Professional Football Association in 1939
  • American Football League (1940) (a.k.a. "AFL III") - third rival of the NFL that competed in 1940 and 1941
  • American Football League (1944) - offshoot of the Pacific Coast Professional Football League, played one year before merging back with the PCPFL
  • American Football League (1946) - name adopted by the American Association minor American football league in 1946
• Arizona Fall League, American baseball league

Other[link]

• Abstract family of languages
• Academic Free License
• Aeroflot, ICAO airline code
• AFL (video game series)
• Aflac New York Stock Exchange abbreviation for, an American insurance company
• Alberta Federation of Labour
• Alta Floresta, Brazil IATA airport code
• Ankara Fen Lisesi, more widely known as Ankara Science High School
• Anti-Football League, an organisation that bemoans the cultural saturation of the Australian Football League
• Armed Forces of Liberia
• Assessment for learning
• Astrobiology Field Laboratory, a proposed and consequently cancelled (unfunded) robotic rover to be sent to planet Mars

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Nick Malceski (born 15 August 1984) is an Australian rules footballer playing for the Sydney Swans in the Australian Football League. Malceski is a Macedonian Australian, being of ethnic Macedonian heritage.

Overview[link]

Malceski was recruited from the Eastern Rangers by the Sydney Swans in the 2002 AFL Draft. He was drafted in Sydney's 5th and last round selection at 64th overall.

In his first year at the club, the talented midfielder played in the Wizard Home Loans Cup and then followed up with a full season for the Swans Reserves, where he impressed coaching staff with his magnificent disposal skills on both sides of his body and excellent decision-making abilities in both attack and defence. After a successful first season with the Swans, Malceski and coaching staff had high hopes for him making his debut for the seniors in the 2004 premiership season. Unfortunately, Malceski ruptured his left anterior cruciate ligament during a trial game, requiring him to have a knee reconstruction, thus ruining any hopes of him making a seniors debut in 2004.

In 2005, Malceski surprised everyone by fully recovering from his knee injury both physically and mentally, and was rewarded with a seniors debut. He scored his first career goal with his first kick. Malceski went on to play another four matches for the seniors in the 2005 premiership season.

In 2006, Nick got the call up to play for the seniors in round 3, along with a new guernsey, No. 9. He played well and held his spot in the team, scoring five goals and averaged 14 possessions a game. However, Malceski pulled up with a hamstring injury during the first quarter of the Swans' round 9 clash against Hawthorn at the MCG. Scans later revealed he would miss the next 3 or 4 weeks.

In the Round 4, 2006 match against Melbourne he had the opportunity to level the scores in the dying moments but missed from 25 metres out and the Demons hung on. This was an inapt way to cap off his game which was considered to have shown a lot of promise – with several long kicks and attacking flair shown. The match marked his arrival as a promising young player.

Malceski's form earned him selection in the 2006 AFL Grand Final where he garnered 10 possessions and kicked an important goal, however his side ultimately lost in his first Grand Final appearance.

In 2007, Malceski continued to impress with exquisite disposal skills. Malceski cemented his place in the Sydney Swans team with several stand-out performances early in the season. His speed and accuracy off half-back has made him an important cog in the Sydney Swans team. In Round 5, 2007 against the Melbourne Demons, Malceski was awarded best on ground with 28 disposals and 1 goal. A great season performance in 2007 resulted Malceski to be runner-up in the clubs prestigious Skilton Medal, only second to Sydney midfielder Brett Kirk.

After his break-out year in 2007, Malceski and Swans coaching staff had high hopes for an even more successful 2008. However, their hopes were delivered a cruel blow when Malceski suffered what appeared to be a serious knee injury to his right knee after he twisted it when changing direction during the 3rd quarter of the Swans Round 1, NAB Cup clash with Hawthorn in Tasmania. It was expected that the ACL injury would rule Malceski out for the remainder of the season, however, a synthetic ligament was installed into the knee and he returned to the side in a game against Essendon midway through the season.

In 2010, after 2 years of disappointing form and recovery from his serious knee injury, Malceski returned to his best form. Returning to the half back line, his run and precision kicking were great assets for the Swans as they pushed towards the finals. He capped of his wonderful year by placing 7th in the Bob Skilton Medal and being named in the initial 40 man All-Australian squad.

In the 2011 pre-season, Malceski re-tore his ACL ligament in his right knee. It was announced he would be having LARS surgery again and he would be out for 10–12 weeks.

Season Statistics[link]

External links[link]

• Sydney Swans player profile

Stephen Milne
Personal information
Full name	Stephen Milne
Date of birth	(1980-03-08) 8 March 1980 (age 32)
Original team	Dandenong Stingrays (TAC Cup)
Draft	#23, 2000 Rookie Draft, St Kilda
Height/Weight	176cm / 83kg
Position(s)	Forward
Club information
Current club	St Kilda
Number	44
Playing career1
Years	Club	Games (Goals)
2001–	St Kilda	241 (500)
International team honours
Years	Team	Games (Goals)
2002–2011	Australia	2
1 Playing statistics to end of Round 5, 2012 season .
Career highlights
St Kilda leading goalkicker 2002, 2010, 2011 Most goals kicked at Docklands Stadium in Australian Football[1] All-Australian Team 2011

Stephen Milne (born 8 March 1980) is a professional footballer for the St Kilda Football Club in the Australian Football League (AFL).

AFL career[link]

Milne was recruited to the St Kilda Football Club from the Essendon reserves and placed on St Kildas Rookie List after playing for the Dandenong Stingrays and Noble Park in the late 1990s. Milne holds a record of 11 goals playing for Noble Park against Kwinana in 1996.^{[citation needed]}Milne began his carer in the Victorian Football league.

St Kilda Football Club[link]

2001 season: AFL debut[link]

Milne was elevated to St Kilda's primary list from the club's rookie list prior to the start of the 2001 season. He played his first official AFL game in 2001 against Port Adelaide in Round 4.

2002: Leading goalkicker[link]

He was St Kilda's leading goalkicker in 2002, kicking 50 goals from 21 matches in the 2002 AFL Premiership Season.^[2]

2004 - 2007[link]

Milne played in St Kilda’s 2004 Wizard Home Loans Cup winning side, the club's second pre-season cup win.^[3]

Later in 2004 Milne and team mate Leigh Montagna were the at the centre of a police investigation of the rape of a woman.^[4] No charges were laid, however in June 2010 a former detective who was the lead detective in the case made claims that the case collapsed under internal pressure from within the Victorian police force and powerful club backers as well as another detective alleging the cost of the case was a factor.^[5][6][7]

In the 2005 AFL Premiership Season, Milne again kicked 50 goals or more in a season. In the final round of the 2005 season, against the Brisbane Lions, he had 15 kicks and kicked a personal best 11 goals in the Saints 139 point win. He finished with 61 goals from 24 matches for the season.^[2]

2008 season[link]

Milne played in St Kilda’s 2008 National Australia Bank Cup winning side, the club's third pre-season cup win. Milne kicked three of St Kildas nine goals in the Final.^[8][9]

In 2008, during a game against Fremantle at Subiaco, he kicked three goals after a head clash. He was driven back from Perth with St Kilda medical staff to avoid the risk of further damage and arrived in Melbourne on the Thursday following the game. Despite this he was named to play in the game on the following Sunday which was Robert Harvey's tribute game against Adelaide. He kicked two goals in a 20 possession game.^{[citation needed]}

In the 2008 AFL Premiership Season, Milne again kicked 50 goals or more in a season. He finished with 60 goals from 24 matches.

2009: Grand finalist[link]

Milne played in 20 of 22 matches in the 2009 home and away rounds in which St Kilda qualified in first position for the 2009 AFL Finals Series, winning the club’s third minor premiership.^[10]

St Kilda qualified for the 2009 AFL Grand Final after its qualifying and preliminary finals wins. Milne played in the grand final when St Kilda were defeated by Geelong by 12 points.

2010: Leading goalkicker and grand finalist[link]

On 9 April 2010, St Kilda played Collingwood in a Round 3 match. During the quarter time break, words were exchanged between Milne and the Collingwood coach, Mick Malthouse, the focus of which in the media was an alleged comment Malthouse made calling Milne a 'rapist'.^[11] In a statement released by Collingwood, Malthouse apologised for his comments for which he was also fined $7500 by the AFL.^[12][13] Milne also stated that some comments he made to an opposition coach were inappropriate.^[12][14]

Under coach Ross Lyon, he has continued to develop his forward defensive skills and setting up play in addition to his ability to score goals.

Milne kicked his 400th career goal on 4 June 2010, in Round 11 against Richmond, scoring five goals for the game.^[15][16]

Mine played his 200th game the following week on 13 June 2010, in Round 12 against Fremantle, scoring four goals for the game.^[17]

He received three Goal Of The Year nominations in 2010 in Rounds 5, 11 and 12.

St Kilda Football Club qualified for the 2010 AFL finals series in third position and won through to the 2010 Grand Final after wins over Geelong in the qualifying finals and Western Bulldogs in the preliminary finals.

Milne played in the 2010 AFL Grand Final in which he kicked two of St Kilda 10 goals for the game against Collingwood, which ended in a draw, 10. 8. (68) to 9. 14. (68). Milne was also unlucky in the final 2 minutes of the last quarter were the ball bounced away froml him, 10 metres out from goal, for a point to tie the game.

He was St Kilda's leading goalkicker in 2010 with 55 goals for the season prior to the 2010 AFL Grand Final Replay.

2011: Leading goalkicker and Docklands' record[link]

In St Kilda's Round 21 home game against the Magpies, Milne became the first player in the history of the league to kick 300 goals at Docklands Stadium. He overtook the previous record of 299 set by former Essendon player Matthew Lloyd. Milne kicked the record-breaking goal in the final quarter.^[1] He has also played the most games of any current AFL player at the venue, with 124 (as of 10 September 2011). He is currently fifth on St Kilda's list of leading goalkickers in the club's history.

2012 season and 500th goal[link]

Milne kicked his 500th career goal against the Melbourne Demons in Round 5, becoming the 50th player to kick 500 goals in the history of the VFL/AFL.

References[link]

External links[link]

Wikimedia Commons has media related to: St Kilda Football Club

• Stephen Milne's profile on the Official AFL Website of the St Kilda Football Club
• Stephen Milne's statistics from AFL Tables

v t e Australian squad – 2002 International Rules Series Captain: Crawford Bickley Bradley Brown Bruce Clement Cornes Darcy Edwards Francou Johnson Judd Kellaway Kerr Lekkas Ling Milne Montgomery Murphy Neitz Pavlich Primus Scarlett Scott Simpson Tredrea Yze Coach: Lyon

v t e Australian squad – 2011 International Rules Series Captain: Green Douglas Frawley Gray Grigg Kelly King McGlynn McKenzie Milne Monfries Nahas Nicoski Patfull Robinson Shiels Smith Suckling Swallow Sylvia Trengove Vince Ward Wojcinski Wood Coach: Eade

Eddie Betts
Personal information
Full name	Eddie Betts
Date of birth	(1986-11-26) 26 November 1986 (age 25)
Place of birth	Kalgoorlie
Original team	Calder Cannons (TAC Cup)
Draft	#3, 2005 Pre-Season Draft, Carlton
Height/Weight	173cm / 78kg
Position(s)	Forward
Club information
Current club	Carlton
Number	19
Playing career1
Years	Club	Games (Goals)
2005–	Carlton	153 (236)
Representative team honours
Years	Team	Games (Goals)
2007	Indigenous All-Stars	1
International team honours
2010	Australia	2
1 Playing statistics to end of Round 9 2012 season .
Career highlights
Carlton Best First-Year Player 2005 AFL Goal of the Year 2006 Carlton leading goalkicker 2010

Eddie Betts (born Edward Roberts on 26 November 1986) is an Australian rules footballer playing for Carlton in the Australian Football League (AFL).

Early life[link]

Betts grew up with his mother in Kalgoorlie, Western Australia and played junior football for the Mines Rovers Football Club. At age 15, Betts had intended to move to Port Lincoln with his father to continue playing junior football there. However, he getting into trouble off the field, including smoking, drinking, drugs and truancy. As a result, his mother arranged for Betts to instead move to Melbourne, under a program run by indigenous former footballer Phil Krakouer.

In Melbourne, Betts played colts football for Templestowe, where he won the EFL Division 3 league best and fairest in 2002,^[1] and TAC Cup football for the Calder Cannons. He represented Vic Metro as a 16 year old in the 2003 AFL National Under 18 Championships and was selected in the Under 18 All-Australian team that season. He was too young to be selected in the AFL Draft at the end of 2003, and he played another season with the Cannons, but was hindered by osteitis pubis. He was overlooked in the 2004 National Draft as a result.^[2]

AFL career[link]

After being overlooked in the National Draft, Betts was recruited to the AFL through the 2005 Pre-Season Draft by the Carlton Football Club with the No. 3 pick.^[3] He attracted attention as a lively small forward during the 2005 Pre-Season, and made his AFL debut in Round 1, 2005 against North Melbourne. His early performances saw him become a regular member of the senior team, filling the niche of goal-sneak and chaser for the club, while his sometimes freakish displays of skill saw him labelled an excitement machine by commentators.

Throughout his first four seasons, Betts had a consistent output of 20-25 goals as a small forward playing underneath full forward Brendan Fevola.^[4] In 2006, Betts won the Goal of the Year, for his goal in Round 21 against Collingwood;^[5] in an amazing solo effort, Betts smothered Tarkyn Lockyer's attempted clearing kick, ran to gather it just before it went out of bounds, and steadied himself to score with a banana from an impossible angle.^[6] From 2007, Betts began to spend some rotations as a midfielder, particularly late in the season after the appointment of Brett Ratten as Carlton coach, but remained primarily a small forward.

From 2009, Betts' goalkicking output increased. He kicked 38 goals in 2009, then 42 in 2010 to top Carlton's goal kicking for the first time. He played his 100th AFL game in Round 3, 2010 against Essendon at the MCG. His 2010 season saw him make the top 10 in the club Best and Fairest for the first time. In 2011, Betts kicked another 50 goals, including a career-best eight goals against Essendon in Round 18. He was nominated in the 40-man All-Australian squad, but did not make the final team,^[7] and he finished 8th in the club Best and Fairest.^[8]

Personal life[link]

Betts teaches part-time at Assumption College in Kilmore, Victoria.^[9]

In December 2009, Betts was arrested and fined by police after being drunk in public following Carlton players' Christmas party.^[10] He was also fined and suspended for one month by the club for the incident. He and other players were sent to a boxing gym and underwent a strenuous training program. This in fact had a positive effect and they applied themselves so well that they achieved best ever levels of fitness (which had never been one of Eddie's strengths) and convinced the club that they had the right attitude.^{[11][12][13][14][15][16]}

References[link]

External links[link]

• Eddie Betts Profile at Official Web site of the Carlton Football Club
• Eddie Betts Profile in Blueseum

v t e Australian squad – 2010 International Rules Series Captain: Goodes Banfield Betts Boyd Cross Dangerfield Duffield Fletcher Frawley Gibbs Gilbert Goldsack Green Ibbotson Jack McVeigh Montagna Riewoldt Simpson Swan Varcoe Wojcinski Picken Coach: Malthouse

Max Rooke
Max Rooke in 2007
Personal information
Full name	Jarad Maxwell Rooke
Date of birth	(1981-12-19) 19 December 1981 (age 30)
Place of birth	Victoria, Australia
Original team	Casterton
Height/Weight	189 cm / 93 kg
Position(s)	Utility
Playing career1
Years	Club	Games (Goals)
2002 – 2010	Geelong	135 (58)
1 Playing statistics to end of 2010 season .

Max Rooke (born Jarad Maxwell Rooke on 19 December 1981) is a retired Australian rules footballer, who played for the Geelong Football Club in the Australian Football League (AFL). A utility player, 1.89 metres (6.2 ft) tall and weighing 93 kilograms (210 lb), Rooke's versatility allowed him to play as a forward, defender, and midfielder.

Rooke made his AFL debut in 2002, and was awarded the 2003 Geelong Football Club Most Determined & Dedicated Player Award. He went on to become a dual premiership player with the club, playing key roles in both the 2007 and 2009 Grand Final victories. Rooke also won two NAB Cups and two McClelland Trophies with Geelong.

AFL career[link]

Rooke was recruited from Casterton in 2001, and made his debut in the second round of 2002. He was a regular senior player until a shin injury forced him to miss the second half of 2004, including the finals series, but recovered to play all but one game in 2005.

His lack of pace against small forwards was exposed in Round 20, 2005 when Melbourne's Russell Robertson kicked seven goals against him. This prompted coach Mark Thompson to move him into the midfield the following week. This move was successful, with Rooke nullifying champion midfielder Chris Judd. In Geelong's close loss to the Sydney Swans in the Elimination Finals, Rooke amassed a remarkable fifteen tackles.

Rooke missed out on most of the 2007 season after suffering a potential season-ending 7 cm hamstring tear in Round 13.^[1] On July 12, Geelong spent $20,000 on Rooke to receive treatment by soft-tissue expert Dr Hans-Wilhelm Muller-Wohlfarth in Germany.^[1] He returned to the side in the 106-point Qualifying Final win against Kangaroos, after key defender Matthew Egan suffered a season-ending foot injury.^[1]

On the 13th of October 2010, Rooke announced his retirement from AFL football. He cited an acute knee injury which kept him out for most of the 2010 Home and Away season.^[2]

Rooke will be returning to the Geelong Footbal Club in 2011 as the Development Coach.

Personal life[link]

In November 2006, Rooke made the decision to officially change his legal name to Max. Rooke's middle name at birth was Maxwell and both his grandfathers were known as Max, which led to a fondness of the name as the main reason behind the change. He also sported a new wild 1970's hairstyle and beard.^[3] Rooke will be known by the new name in all official AFL records from the 2007 season onwards, in the same vein of the Western Bulldog's Brian Lake's name change from his original "Brian Harris".

Rooke has a daughter named Evie Willow, born in 2010, with partner Olivia Peron.

Statistics[link]

Statistics are correct as of end of 2009 season (December 31, 2009)

References[link]

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External links[link]

• Max Rooke's profile on the Official AFL Website of the Geelong Football Club
• Max Rooke's statistics from AFL Tables

v t e Australian squad – 2008 International Rules Series Captain: Harvey Bock Boyd Brennan Brown Burgoyne Campbell Crowley Firrito Foley Hayden Montagna Motlop Murphy Osborne Pendlebury Petrie Rodan Rooke Sewell Simpson Selwood Thomas Thompson Wells Coach: Malthouse