Kris Massie (born Kristiaan Martinger, 30 May 1980) is an
Australian rules football coach and former player who played for the
Carlton Football Club
The Carlton Football Club, nicknamed the Blues, is a professional Australian rules football club that competes in the Australian Football League (AFL), the sport's top professional competition.
Founded in 1864 in Carlton, an inner suburb of Me ...
and
Adelaide Football Club in the
Australian Football League (AFL). He also coached the
Glenelg Football Club
Glenelg Football Club is an Australian rules football team, which plays in the South Australian National Football League. The club is known as the "Tigers" (or the "Bays"), and their home ground is ACH Group Stadium (formerly Glenelg Oval), lo ...
in the
South Australian National Football League
The South Australian National Football League, or SANFL ( or ''S-A-N-F-L''), is an Australian rules football league based in the Australian state of South Australia. It is also the state's governing body for the sport.
Originally formed as t ...
(SANFL) from 2011 to 2013.
Massie was recruited to the Carlton in the
1997 AFL Draft and won a Rising Star nomination in his first AFL season (1998) after debuting less than two weeks before his 18th birthday. As a utility player, Massie failed to live up to his top 10 draft pick status, however, and only managed 43 games in four seasons at Carlton before being traded.
At Adelaide, Massie held his spot in the side late in the 2002 season, and in 2003 again performed well enough to hold his spot for the finals series. 2004 saw him play the first 11 games, but he only managed one more match for the year, in Round 17.
In 2005, Massie had turned 25 and was now an experienced member of the team. Kept in as a depth player, Massie played much of his football with
Norwood in the SANFL and only managed three games for the year, including the Qualifying Final. He returned to regular senior selection in 2006, playing 20 games. He missed the first half of 2007 due to injury before coming back for Round 12.
Massie was delisted by Adelaide at the end of the 2008 season, and signed to play as a contracted player for
Norwood in the SANFL in 2009.
In 2010, Massie moved into coaching, taking the role as the under-18s coach at
Glenelg, taking the young Bays to the premiership, then becoming Glenelg's reserves coach in 2011. On 20 June 2011, Glenelg head coach
Mark Mickan
Mark James Mickan (born 30 January 1961) is a former professional Australian rules footballer who played for the Brisbane Bears and Adelaide Football Club in the Australian Football League (AFL). Mickan began his senior career with South Austr ...
was sacked by the club following poor onfield performances, and Massie was installed as caretaker season coach for the remainder of the 2011 season, and was appointed as senior coach for the 2012 season. His contract was not renewed at the end of 2013, finishing with a career senior coaching record of 17–33 for Glenelg.
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1980 births
Living people
VFL/AFL players born outside Australia
Adelaide Football Club players
Carlton Football Club players
Glenelg Football Club coaches
Norwood Football Club players
Dandenong Stingrays players
Australian rules footballers from Victoria (state)
Swedish emigrants to Australia
Australian people of Swedish descent
Swedish people of Australian descent