Steele Sidebottom is aprofessional Australian rules football player currently playing for theCollingwood Football Club in the Australian Football League. Sidebottom wasselected by Collingwood with selection 11 in the 2008 AFL Draft at age 17. He was the youngest player on theirpremiership squad for several years on which he debuted at age 19, and for whomhe has played almost 150 games. He is the youngest offive brothers, and was born on January2, 1991 (age 26) in Victoria, Australia. Sidebottom grew upas the "baby" of five boys ina family that was sports-obsessed. Thebrothers even arranged their own footy goalposts and cricket nets in theirbackyard at Tallygaroopna, even though the local sports oval was, quiteliterally, over their back fence. His number atCollingwood is 22. He is 5′11″(180 cm) tall, and weighs 185 lbs (84 kg). He has been a consistently good player for the Collingwood Magpies. He suffered his first major injury in 2015,but has bounced back from his furlough. His older brother Ryanplays Cricket for the Victorian Bushrangers. His nicknames include Bluescope and Rusty. Around his home and his brothers he is alwaysRusty. He has an unusualtalent, he is known for having memorized the brand names and colors of all ofthe footy boots of the great majority of players in the AFL: http://www.collingwoodfc.com.au/video/2016-07-21/steele-shows-off-his-strange-obsession Some players playwell, some are fun to watch. It will befun to watch Steele Sidebottom play well in the rest of this season and in theyears ahead. -- Posted By Rex to SR at 6/14/2017 11:28:00 PM -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "omnisport" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/group/omnisport. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
