"Woosha" redirects here. For another Australian rules footballer nicknamed "Woosha", see Jess Wuetschner.
Australian rules footballer
John Worsfold
Worsfold in June 2017
Personal information
Full name
John Richard Worsfold
Nickname(s)
Woosha
Date of birth
(1968-09-25) 25 September 1968 (age 55)
Place of birth
Subiaco, Western Australia
Original team(s)
South Fremantle
Height
180 cm (5 ft 11 in)
Weight
86 kg (190 lb)
Playing career1
Years
Club
Games (Goals)
1986–1987
South Fremantle (WAFL)
024 0(4)
1987–1998
West Coast
209 (37)
Total
233 (41)
Representative team honours
Years
Team
Games (Goals)
1988–1993
Western Australia
5 (0)
Coaching career3
Years
Club
Games (W–L–D)
2002–2013
West Coast
281 (149–130–2)
2016–2020
Essendon
107 (45–61–1)
Total
388 (194–191–3)
1 Playing statistics correct to the end of 1998.
3 Coaching statistics correct as of 2020.
Career highlights
Playing
West Coast Club Champion: 1988
2× AFL premiership: 1992, 1994
West Coast captain: 1991–1998
South Fremantle best first year player: 1986
WAFL Rookie of the Year: 1986
West Coast best clubman: 1993, 1998
Western Australia Captain: 1992–1993
West Australian Football Hall of Fame inductee (inducted 2004)
Coaching
AFL premiership: 2006
2× AFLCA Coach of the Year: 2006, 2011
Sources: AFL Tables, AustralianFootball.com
John Richard Worsfold (born 25 September 1968) is a former Australian rules football coach and player. He was the senior coach of the Essendon Football Club in the Australian Football League (AFL) between October 2015 and September 2020. He previously had a long association with the West Coast Eagles as player (1987–1998) and coach (2002–2013), captaining the club to premierships in 1992 and 1994 and coaching the club to a premiership in 2006.
Worsfold began his career with the South Fremantle Football Club in the West Australian Football League (WAFL), before being named an inaugural squad member of West Coast on their formation in 1986. After winning the club's best and fairest award in 1988, he was appointed the captain of the club in 1991, a position he would hold until his retirement in 1998. During his period at the club, Worsfold played in 209 games, which including the 1992 and 1994 premiership sides. During this time, he also appeared in five State of Origin matches for Western Australia, including captaining his state twice.
In 2000, two years after his retirement from playing, Worsfold joined Carlton as an assistant coach, remaining in this position until the end of the 2001 season, when he was appointed senior coach of West Coast in place of Ken Judge. Worsfold coached the club in eight finals series, including the 2006 premiership. In 2010, he coached West Coast to its first wooden spoon, but the following season the team finished fourth, with Worsfold receiving the AFLCA Coach of the Year Award for the second time. He coached West Coast in a club record 274 games before resigning at the end of the 2013 season. He was named an inaugural inductee into the West Australian Football Hall of Fame in 2004 and the John Worsfold Medal is named in his honour.
After a two-year absence from coaching, Worsfold was appointed senior coach of Essendon on 5 October 2015. He handed over to his assistant Ben Rutten at the end of the 2020 season as part of a planned transition.
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captain in 2002, a role he filled until 2006. In 2005, West Coast coach JohnWorsfold said of Cousins' fifth year as captain, "Ben is improving all the time...
becoming a regular in the team the following season. Priddis won the JohnWorsfold Medal as West Coast's best and fairest player in the 2013 season, and...
in the Australian Football League (AFL). As an Eagle, Selwood won a JohnWorsfold Medal in 2012, and was one of five acting captains at the club in the...
season. He was appointed coach of West Coast in October 2013, replacing JohnWorsfold. Simpson grew up in the north-eastern suburbs of Melbourne where he...
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as JohnWorsfold's successor as senior coach, effective at the end of the 2020 AFL season. Rutten effectively shared co-coaching duties with Worsfold during...
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