David Gourdis (born 14 March 1989) was an

Australian rules football Australian football, also called Australian rules football or Aussie rules, or more simply football or footy, is a contact sport played between two teams of 18 players on an oval field, often a modified cricket ground. Points are scored by k ...

player for the

Richmond Football Club The Richmond Football Club, nicknamed the Tigers, is an Australian rules football team playing in the Australian Football League (AFL). Between its inception in the Melbourne suburb of Richmond in 1885 and 1907, the club competed in the Victo ...

. He was overlooked at the

2007 AFL draft The 2007 Australian Football League draft consisted of four opportunities for player acquisitions during the 2007/08 Australian Football League off-season. These were trade week, the national draft, which was held on 24 November 2007, the pre-se ...

, despite ranking no.1 in the 20m sprint (2.3 sec), and ranked no.1 in the running vertical jump (101 cm), at the AFL Draft Camp in

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. The same year in December 2007, the

selected Gourdis with their number 1 pick in the 2007 Pre-Season Draft. He played his junior years at the Carine Junior Football Club After being delisted by Richmond at the end of the 2008 season he was re-drafted by Richmond in the 2008 AFL Rookie draft. He made his AFL debut in Round 20 of the 2010 season against Carlton at the MCG on 14 August. On 30 November 2011 he was delisted by the

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''Tigers pick Gourdis and Collard''
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