Goodes at a Recognise campaign press conference, 2014
Personal information
Full name
Adam Roy Goodes
Date of birth
(1980-01-08) 8 January 1980 (age 44)
Place of birth
Wallaroo, South Australia, Australia
Original team(s)
North Ballarat Rebels
Draft
No. 43, 1997 National Draft
Height
191 cm (6 ft 3 in)
Weight
100 kg (220 lb)
Position(s)
Utility
Playing career1
Years
Club
Games (Goals)
1999–2015
Sydney
372 (464)
Representative team honours
Years
Team
Games (Goals)
2008
Victoria
1 (0)
International team honours
2001–2010
Australia
3 (3)
1 Playing statistics correct to the end of 2015.
Career highlights
2× Brownlow Medal (2003, 2006)
2× AFL Premiership (2005, 2012)
3× Bob Skilton Medal (2003, 2006, 2011)
4× All Australian (2003, 2006, 2009, 2011)
3× Sydney leading goalkicker (2009, 2010, 2011)
AFL Rising Star 1999
Indigenous Team of the Century
Australian of the Year 2014
Sources: AFL Tables, AustralianFootball.com
Adam Roy Goodes (born 8 January 1980) is a former professional Australian rules footballer who played for the Sydney Swans in the Australian Football League (AFL). Goodes holds an elite place in VFL/AFL history as a dual Brownlow Medallist, dual premiership player, four-time All-Australian, member of the Indigenous Team of the Century and representative of Australia in the International Rules Series. In addition, he has held the record for the most VFL/AFL games played by an Indigenous player, surpassing Andrew McLeod's record of 340 during the 2014 AFL season[1] before having his own record surpassed by Shaun Burgoyne during the 2019 AFL season.[2]
Known for his community work and anti-racism advocacy, Goodes was named the Australian of the Year in 2014.[3][4] From 2013, his outspokenness on racial issues contributed to his being the target of a sustained booing campaign from opposition fans, causing him to take indefinite leave from the AFL and eventually retire from the game at the end of the 2015 season. The "booing saga" sparked a national debate about racism in Australia and became the subject of two documentary films, both released in 2019. That year, the AFL formally apologised to Goodes for not taking greater action to defend him against fan abuse.
^"Adam Goodes humble as he faces record-breaking AFL game". SBS. 2 July 2014. Retrieved 16 November 2020.
^Cross, Hannah (7 August 2019). "Burgoyne smashes record of most Indigenous games played". National Indigenous Times. Retrieved 16 November 2020.
^"Goodes a victim of circumstance". The Age. 24 May 2014.
^Jackson, Lucy, and Rebecca Gallegos. "Months in review: January–February." Indigenous Law Bulletin 8.10 (2014): 31.
Adam Roy Goodes (born 8 January 1980) is a former professional Australian rules footballer who played for the Sydney Swans in the Australian Football...
(AFL). He is the younger brother of Sydney Swans dual Brownlow Medalist AdamGoodes. He played for North Ballarat in the Victorian Football League (VFL)...
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and away season. AdamGoodes of the Sydney Swans won the medal by polling twenty-six votes during the 2006 AFL season. It was Goodes' second Brownlow...
Collingwood and Sydney, AdamGoodes became the target of racial abuse in which a 13-year-old Collingwood supporter called him an "ape". Goodes pointed the supporter...
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were directed at indigenous Australian AFL player AdamGoodes. In McMaster's tweets, he criticised Goodes' view of Australia Day as "Invasion Day" (a term...
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31 and AdamGoodes at 43, as well as future Hawthorn captain Richie Vandenberg and Port Adelaide and Carlton star Nick Stevens. Black and Goodes played...
one-point lead, they stretched the lead to seven with a crumbing goal by AdamGoodes. Hawthorn then pressed a lengthy attack in the forward 50 but could not...
garden, except for a tree of the knowledge of good and evil. Subsequently, Eve is created from one of Adam's ribs to be his companion. They are innocent...
midfielder Mark McVeigh. He was co-captain of the Sydney Swans alongside AdamGoodes in 2011 and 2012 and Kieren Jack from 2013 to 2016. McVeigh was born...
Rising Star (Best player under 21) AdamGoodes – 1999 Dan Hannebery – 2010 Callum Mills – 2016 Most games – AdamGoodes (372) Most goals – Bob Pratt (681)...
early to all punters who had already backed Judd for the win. Sydney's AdamGoodes, who had attracted odds as wide as $30 during the season, had a very...
accuracy with his skills, his contested football. It's just fantastic. — AdamGoodes, Dual Brownlow Medallist I played with magnificent players. Nicholls...
racially vilifying both AdamGoodes and Lewis Jetta. Eddie McGuire apologises for "King Kong" gaffe in reference to Goodes. 2015 AdamGoodes endured constant...
(decade), Ricciuto shared the 2003 Brownlow Medal with Nathan Buckley and AdamGoodes, and was selected in the All-Australian team for four consecutive seasons...
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