Paul Roos

At 60 years old, Paul Roos has this physical status:

Paul Roos (born 27 June 1963) is a former Australian rules footballer and senior coach in the Australian Football League (AFL).

During the 1980s and 1990s, Roos represented Fitzroy and Sydney.

Roos served as the senior coach of the Sydney Swans and Melbourne Football Club from 2002 to 2016 respectively. Roos, a versatile key position player who excelled at ground level and was rated Australia's best footballer in his prime.

In Fitzroy's Team of the Century, he was one of the finest players in the country's final years, and he was named at center half.

He was only arrested once for abusive words in his 17 years of League football, and not guilty.

He has received numerous accolades throughout his career: he has been named All-Australian seven times, received the league's Most Valuable Player (MVP) award, and represented Victoria on 14 occasions in State of Origin.

He is also the AFL/VFL record holder for the number of games played wearing the number 1 jumper, which he wore throughout his 356-game career at both Fitzroy and Sydney. Roos went on to become a great mentor at Sydney, leading the Swans to the 2005 Premiership, their first in 72 seasons.

Early life

Roos grew up in Donvale, Melbourne, and played junior football with Beverley Hills Football Club in Doncaster East. From 1975 to 1981, he attended Donvale High School. Roos was chosen to play for the Fitzroy Lions in their Under 19's squad as Beverley Hills was in Fitzroy's recruiting zone.

Personal life

Roos married American native Tami Hardy, a meditation coach from San Diego, in 1992. Dylan and Tyler, the former of whom appeared on The Amazing Race Australia in 2019 and is now dating American tennis player Amanda Anisimova.

During the Swans' qualifying final victory over Port Adelaide over the weekend, Roos ruptured his Achilles tendon during a game of social basketball, and he was seen on crutches.

In 2008, he was named Australian Father of the Year in recognition of his ability to strike a balance between the needs of his family and the demands of leading a high-profile sports team.

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Playing career

In Round 4 of the 1982 season against Fitzroy, the Roos made his senior VFL debut for the club, a change that would see him move to 13 years later. Gary Pert, 16, was also on his debut with Roos as he became one of the Roos' best teammates. He was named full forward against St Kilda in Round 9, and scored seven goals in a 47-point victory.

Roos received a career-high 16 votes in the Brownlow Medal in 1986, finishing runner-up. He died after his career with 121 Brownlow votes (98 with Fitzroy and 23 with Sydney).

Roos was elected captain of Fitzroy in 1988 and the club's history in 122 games before 1994.

Roos was selected as an All-Australian in 1985, 1987, 1988, 1991, 1991 (as captain) and 1992 (as captain). He also served as captain for Victoria in State of Origin.

At the end of 1994, the Roos left Fitzroy to join the Sydney Swans. The key reasons for moving to Sydney were financial instability, the departure of key players (such as Gary Pert to Collingwood) and the club's relocation to the Western Oval.

Roos played for Fitzroy Football Club from 1982 to 1994, where he played in 269 games and kicked a total of 270 goals.

In 1995, Roos joined Sydney Swans on a three-year deal. Although Roos was at the Swans, he was one of Sydney's best players in the 1996 AFL Grand Final loss to North Melbourne. In 1996 and 1997, he was recognized as an All-Australian. With 87 games and 19 goals at the end of 1998, he completed his playing career with the Sydney Swans.

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Coaching career

When his playing career ended, in 1999, Roos moved to the United States, his wife's home country, Roos spent some time in the US, and coached the national team to victory over Canada. He is often regarded as one of the key players in the fledgling United States Australian Football League's success, establishing networks with key people in the region.

Roos became an assistant coach under senior coach Rodney Eade in 2001 after returning to Australia and the Swans. Eade resigned midway through the 2002 season, with the Swans' record getting worse by the week. Terry Wallace, the club's chief, began looking for a new coach, and reports indicate that talks were still in progress. However, Roos was promoted caretaker senior coach for the remainder of the 2002 season after Eade's great contribution to the team as a player.

Roos' dispirited Swans players were quickly transformed by the caretaker senior coach. Many who had failed under Eade's leadership flourished under his leadership. Surprisingly, the Swans won the majority of their remaining games this year (six of their last ten), and the fans revealed who they wanted as coach shortly by reviving the famous "Roooos" call. Despite this, the club administration continued their discussions with Wallace (and possibly others). However, they were also unable to ignore the players' own support for Roos after a victory late in the season, when all the players surrounded Roos and, in a rare way, joined in the "Roooos" call. The administrators knew when they were defeated and named Roos as full-time senior coach for the 2003 season (despite having to pay Wallace a considerable sum to end their almost-concluded contract with him).

Sydney appeared in every finals series from 2003 to 2008. They made it to the semifinals in 2003, won the Premiership in 2005 and almost kept it in 2006, but lost the Grand Final by just one point, and then were disqualified in the first week of the 2007 finals. They made it to the second week of the 2008 finals. But 2009 was the second time under Roos' leadership that they didn't make the finals.

Darren Jolly, Ted Richards, Peter Everitt, Martin Mattner, Rhyce Shaw, and Shane Mumford all participated in the first round draft exchange for players from other clubs, including Darren Jolly, Ted Richards, Peter Everitt, Peter Everitt, Peter Everitt, Robert Matthews, and Shane Mumford. Both of them gained more game time than they did at their original clubs; Paul Roos was rewarded for his efforts.

AFL CEO Andrew Demetriou, who referred to the Swans' defensive and negative style of play (presumably the tactics of flood prevention and possession by short chip kicks), chastised his coaching style in 2005 (actually the Swans' defensive and negative style of play (presumably the tactics of flooding). And Demetriou went so far as to claim that the Swans would never win a premiership in an unattractive style of football. The Swans were branded by the media, especially in Melbourne, as the ugly ducklings as a result of Demetriou's debuffs.

In a match against St Kilda in mid-2005, Roos and his Swans were chastised for their game scheme. Andrew Demetriou and the Network Ten commentary team, led by Stephen Quartermain, Tim Lane, and Robert Walls, characterized their game plan as "disgusting" and "ugly." During the match, the Swans misbehaved, losing the match 15.11 (101) 58), the first match of the season, but the Swans lost by single margins only once more matches were played. The Roos and the Swans would have the last laugh after beating the Saints in the preliminary final with a 15.6 (96) – 9.11 (65) victory, effectively ending their chances of a second premiership for the second time. In the 2005 Grand Finals, Swans under Roos will also kick 8.10 (58), this time defeating the West Coast Eagles who scored 7.12 (54) to win the premiership.

With a tense victory over the West Coast Eagles in the most exciting Grand Final in a number of years, Roos proved his critics wrong. Many believe that the AFL's change of rules for the 2006 season was in direct response to the Swans' style of play, but that was later denied by the AFL.

In the 2006 pre-season, Roos returned to the United States with his Swans team for an exhibition match against the Kangaroos at UCLA, and he suggested that this should be an annual event.

The Swans lost by 39 points, 15.11 (101) to 8.14 (62). Roos cited a lack of hunger and went so far as to say that his team was "nobody capable of winning the premiership," but the Swans under Roos managed to progress to the 2006 Grand Final against the West Coast Eagles by a single point.

In Round 12, 2007, Sydney defeated Collingwood and lost in a match that Roos characterized as the worst game he had ever coached in his five-year stint with the Swans. He responded by dropping star forward Barry Hall, who had been dealing with injury.

When the Blues lost their final 11 matches of the regular season, most by lopsided margins (which eventually led to the dismissal of his Carlton counterpart Denis Pagan). In Round 15, the penultimate round before Pagan was dismissed, there was a 62-point pasting by Roos' Swans.

In early 2008, Roos was reported to have been involved in a match-fixing scandal involving wingman Jarrad McVeigh. McVeigh's alleged orders to him were to "go forward, but don't kick a goal" during the Swans' NAB Cup match against Hawthorn, which the Swans lost by two points by two points. One month later, the AFL had been ruled out of any wrongdoing, but McVeigh's poor results during the 2007 AFL season was ridiculed.

In the first match of the 2008 season in which his Swans were defeated by St Kilda in a close match, he also worked from the bench.

In 2008, the Swans Under Roos reached the finals in 6th position and then defeated the North Melbourne Kangaroos in the elimination final by 35 points.

The 2009 season saw the Roos' worst-ever season at the Swans and the Swans' worst season since 1995, when the Swans lost only eight games (five of which came in the first nine rounds of the season) and finish in 12th place. The Roos also announced that he would step down and step down as Sydney's senior coach after the 2010 season.

The Roos ruled out the 2010 AFL season, when the Sydney Swans returned to the finals after last year's absence from the finals. They defeated Carlton by five points in their home elimination final, but the Western Bulldogs eliminated them the next week by the same margin in the second week of the finals. He resigned at the end of the season and was replaced by assistant coach John Longmire in a succession initiative. He coached 202 games for Sydney, including 16 finals, nine of which were won.

Roos was named senior coach of the Melbourne Football Club on a two-year contract on September 6, 2013, with the possibility of a third year. After Neeld was fired in the middle of the 2013 season, the Roos fired Melbourne Football Club caretaker senior coach Neil Craig, who replaced Mark Neeld. The Roos resurrectance of the second year on July 28.

He has been praised for his work with the Demons in his first season as head coach of the Melbourne Demons Football Club in 2014, who lost four games and eighteen losses, finishing seventeenth, which is in second place on the ladder. However, this doubled their total figure from the previous year, and their figure increased from 54.7 percent in 2013 to 68.0 percent in 2014. He also pledged that the club will be "the hardest to play against." However, Roos and the Demons were on alert after losing by 64 points to an injury-plagued Greater Western Sydney side that could only operate a one-man bench in the entire second half.

With seven wins and fifteen losses in the 2015 season, the Melbourne Demons under Roos finished in 13th place on the ladder, in thirteenth place. The Melbourne Demons under Roos finished in eleventh place on the ladder in 2016 with ten victories and twelve losses.

At the end of the 2016 season, the Roos resigned as Melbourne Football Club senior coach and was replaced by assistant coach Simon Goodwin in a succession plan.

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