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Australian rules footballer, born 1968

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Australian rules footballer

Gavin Crosisca
Personal information
Date of birth	(1968-09-15) 15 September 1968 (age 56)
Place of birth	Brisbane, Queensland
Original team(s)	Western Districts
Debut	Round 1, 1987 vs. Sydney Swans, at Victoria Park
Height	188 cm (6 ft 2 in)
Weight	90 kg (198 lb)
Playing career
Years	Club	Games (Goals)
1987–2000	Collingwood	246 (64)
Playing statistics correct to the end of 2000.
Career highlights
Collingwood premiership player 1990 Wrecker Award 1990, 1995, 1997 State of Origin appearances
Sources: AFL Tables, AustralianFootball.com

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 after having played his junior football for the Moorooka Roosters AFC. He played in the 1990 premiership side with the Magpies, and played State of Origin football for three teams: Queensland, Victoria and 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.

References

"Grog and drugs cost me the lot: Collingwood 1990 premiership star Gavin Crosisca | News.com.au". Archived from the original on 20 September 2012.

External links

Gavin Crosisca at AustralianFootball.com

v t e 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

v t e Queensland Team – 1988 Bicentennial State of Origin Carnival (Australian rules football)
Preliminary Stage: VFA 17.10 (112) defeated Queensland 4.11 (35), at Football Park, 3 March 1988 Wooden Spoon Play-off: Tasmania 11.16 (82) defeated Queensland 10.10 (70), at Norwood Oval, 4 March 1988
Buchanen Carlson Collison Cotter Crosisca Crowley Dunell Dunstall Gibson Glascott Glynn Grimley Herbert O'Keefe O'Neill Mace MacLure R. McIvor S. McIvor Riewoldt Sarcevic Sewell Spencer Smith Tapp Taylor Ugle Warren Willet
Coach: Knights

v t e 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

v t e 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

v t e 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

v t e 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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