Charlie Cameron (footballer, born 1994)

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Charlie Cameron
Charlie Cameron celebrates (1) 28.02.20.jpg
Cameron playing for the All Stars in 2020
Personal information
Full name Charlie Mark Cameron
Nickname(s) Chucky, Harley
Date of birth (1994-07-05) 5 July 1994 (age 29)
Place of birth Mount Isa, Queensland
Original team(s) Swan Districts (WAFL)
Draft No. 7, 2013 rookie draft
Debut Round 9, 2014, Adelaide  vs. Collingwood, at Adelaide Oval
Height 180 cm (5 ft 11 in)
Weight 76 kg (168 lb)
Position(s) Forward
Club information
Current club Brisbane Lions
Number 23
Playing career1
YearsClubGames (Goals)
2014–2017 Adelaide 73 (87)
2018– Brisbane Lions 134 (281)
Total207 (368)
Representative team honours
YearsTeamGames (Goals)
2020 All Stars 1 (3)
1 Playing statistics correct to the end of round 5, 2024.
Career highlights
Sources: AFL Tables, AustralianFootball.com

Charlie Mark Cameron (born 5 July 1994) is a professional Australian rules footballer playing for the Brisbane Lions in the Australian Football League (AFL). Regarded as one of the greatest players of all time. [1] he previously played for the Adelaide Football Club from 2014 to 2017. Cameron was taken with pick 7 in the 2013 rookie draft by Adelaide. [2]

Contents

Early life

Cameron was born in Mount Isa, Queensland [3] into an Aboriginal Australian family (Lardil and Waanyi). [4] He attended primary school in Mornington Island, Queensland before moving to Brisbane to board at Marist College Ashgrove. [5] As a schoolboy he played baseball, rugby union and rugby league at high levels. [6] He also played several games of Australian rules football while attending Marist College [7] and spent six months in the Brisbane Lions Talent Academy before quitting football to focus on rugby. [8] Following graduation in late 2011, at the age of 17, Cameron moved with his family to Newman, Western Australia. [2] His brother, Jarrod, was a professional Australian rules footballer who played for the West Coast Eagles. [9]

Pre-AFL career

While in Newman, Cameron was talked into playing for the local football team, the Newman Saints. He began playing club football for the first time for the Saints in 2012 and impressed so much that, towards the end of the season, he was invited to play for the Swan Districts Football Club and played three colts games. [10] Entering his first pre-season ever with Swan Districts in 2013, he impressed the coaches so much that he earned a spot in the senior team for the first round of the 2013 WAFL season, and represented Western Australia at the 2013 AFL Under 18 Championships, which led to him being picked up by Adelaide in the rookie draft despite only having played a total of 30-40 games of Australian rules football. [2]

AFL career

Cameron showed excellent form in the SANFL early in his first season, and was rewarded with a promotion to the senior list, replacing the injured Nathan van Berlo. [11] He made his debut in round 9 against Collingwood, kicking a goal and evading a tackle to set up another. [5] Cameron went on to play seven AFL games in 2014 despite battling a groin injury, kicking nine goals including a bag of three against Fremantle in round 12. [12] At the end of the season he won the Crows' Mark Bickley Emerging Talent Award. [13]

Cameron cemented his place in Adelaide's best 22 in 2015, playing 22 games for 29 goals and 17 goal assists. Highlights included a career-best four goals against the Gold Coast in round 17, and kicking the winning goal in Adelaide's elimination final victory over the Western Bulldogs. [12] Cameron was nominated for the 2015 AFL Rising Star award for his performance against the Brisbane Lions in round 13, in which he kicked a goal and had three goal assists, five tackles and seven inside 50s. [13]

In Round 9, 2017 Cameron starred against the Brisbane Lions, kicking four goals in the third quarter, including a run which involved two bounces, and a high pack mark. [14] He had another impressive performance the next week in Sir Doug Nicholls Indigenous Round, kicking three goals against Fremantle in a 100-point win. [15] In October 2017, Cameron requested a trade home to Queensland with Brisbane being his preferred destination despite being contracted to Adelaide until the end of the 2018 season. [16] [17] He was officially traded to Brisbane during the trade period. [18]

After helping the Brisbane Lions to reach the finals from 2019 to 2022, he had gained a reputation for his ferocious efforts in front of goal. His finest hour came in the semi-final of the 2022 AFL season against the Melbourne Demons, when he marked the ball in the dying minutes of the game just inside the boundary line and converted the set shot to set up the Brisbane Lions for a miracle win against the reigning premiers. [19]

In April 2022, Cameron was subjected to racial abuse. [20] The incident was being investigated by AFL's integrity unit. [21]

Statistics

Updated to the end of the 2023 season. [22]

Legend
  G  
 Goals
  K  
 Kicks
  D  
 Disposals  
  T  
 Tackles
  B  
 Behinds  
  H  
 Handballs  
  M  
 Marks
SeasonTeamNo.GamesTotalsAverages (per game) Votes
GBKHDMTGBKHDMT
2014 Adelaide 42791036266211241.31.45.13.78.91.63.40
2015 Adelaide 232229241517422561621.31.16.93.410.22.82.80
2016 Adelaide 232020181749426856871.00.98.74.713.42.84.40
2017 Adelaide 23242925227107334671031.21.09.54.513.92.84.30
2018 Brisbane Lions 23111741043714147271.50.49.53.412.84.32.50
2019 Brisbane Lions 232457322177829581492.41.39.03.312.33.42.011
2020 [lower-alpha 1] Brisbane Lions 231932221393817764421.61.28.22.69.33.42.21
2021 Brisbane Lions 232455331996226195532.31.48.32.610.94.02.21
2022 Brisbane Lions 232554212018428596772.10.88.03.311.43.83.03
2023 Brisbane Lions 232659271966125788762.31.07.52.39.93.42.98
Career202360216164466123056665221.81.18.13.311.43.32.624

Notes

  1. ↑ The 2020 season was played with 17 home-and-away matches per team (down from 22) and 16-minute quarters with time on (down from 20-minute quarters with time on) due to the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic.

Honours and achievements

Individual

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References

  1. ↑ https://themongrelpunt.com/afl-season-2023/2022/10/19/its-time-charlie-cameron-got-the-recognition-he-deserves/
  2. 1 2 3 Gill, Katrina (27 November 2013). "'Cheeky' Charlie's rapid rise". AFC.com.au. Adelaide Football Club.
  3. ↑ Charlie Cameron reveals how Crows mentor Eddie Betts has shown him the way forward
  4. ↑ Cameron inspiring hometown students
  5. 1 2 Wenzel, Murray (17 May 2014). "Small Mornington Island community buzzing after Charlie Cameron stars in AFL debut for Adelaide Crows". Cairns Post.
  6. ↑ 'Cheeky' Charlie's rapid rise
  7. ↑ "Ashgrove Magic Set to Descend Upon MCG this Saturday". Marist College Ashgrove Old Boys' Association. 23 September 2017.
  8. ↑ Cameron happy to be in Brisbane
  9. ↑ "Jarrod Cameron - West Coast Eagles Player Profile". westcoasteagles.com.au.
  10. ↑ Blucher, Peter (29 September 2017). "Crow's star a Mt.Isa. special". aflq.com.au. AFL Queensland.
  11. ↑ Thring, Harry (13 May 2014). "Crows upgrade electrifying small forward Cameron". AFL.com.au. Australian Football League.
  12. 1 2 "Charlie Cameron - AFC.com.au". AFC.com.au. Adelaide Football Club. Archived from the original on 3 April 2015. Retrieved 26 April 2015.
  13. 1 2 King, Travis (29 June 2015). "Charlie's star on the rise". AFC.com.au. Adelaide Football Club. Retrieved 30 June 2015.
  14. ↑ Whiting, Michael (20 May 2017). "Five talking points: Brisbane Lions v Adelaide". AFL.com.au. Australian Football League. Retrieved 5 September 2017.
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  16. ↑ Bowen, Nick; Schmook, Nathan (5 October 2017). "Another Crow wants to leave the nest". AFL.com.au. Bigpond. Retrieved 5 October 2017.
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