Michael Voss (born 7 July 1975) is a former professional

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player with the Brisbane Bears/Lions and current senior coach of the

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in the

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(AFL). Voss was a triple premiership captain with the

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Football Club. He was also the first Brisbane player to win the

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( 1996), which is considered the game's most prestigious individual award; won the

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twice (2002 and 2003), which is awarded annually to the league's most valued player; and has been inducted into the

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. Additionally, he represented Australia in the 2006 International Rules Series. As a player, he was noted for his fearless play, inspirational leadership, and the ability to turn a game.

Early life

Voss was born in

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, and lived as a child in

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until the age of 11, when he moved with his family to

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. Voss attended

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during his high-school years in Queensland. His younger brother

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also played for the Brisbane Lions before transferring to

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to enhance his opportunities to play senior football. Voss's football skills were excellent from an early age. He made his senior debut for Morningside in the

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at the age of 15 years. A year later, he kicked 14 goals for

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in a second-division under-17 representative match, going on to win the inaugural Hunter Harrison Medal for the tournament. Voss grew up supporting the

Playing career

Brisbane Bears

Rise to stardom

At 17 years and 11 days of age in 1992, he debuted for the

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against

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at Princes Park in

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in Round 18, 1992, the youngest-ever player to play a senior game for the club. Although highly skilled, he was also slight, but he worked to get the most out of his body. By 1996, he was one of the most accomplished players in the competition, and at the end of the season he shared the

, the game's highest individual honour, with

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Brisbane Lions

At the end of 1996, following the merger of the

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and the

, Voss and teammate

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were named as inaugural co-captains of the newly formed

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. In 2019, Kobe Howard described Voss as "one of the game's greatest players" in Australian football history. In 1998, Voss suffered a catastrophic injury while contesting a mark at Subiaco Oval in Perth in a match against

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. He collided with Fremantle's Shane Parker and broke his lower leg in half. The subsequent operation was at Sir Charles Gairdner Hospital, and it was a year before he was fit and in training to play again. This injury, along with the destabilisation caused by the merger of Fitzroy and the Bears, was a key factor in the Brisbane Lions finishing 16th (

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) with a record of 5 wins, 16 losses, and 1 draw.

Premiership and captaincy success

Voss captained the Brisbane Lions in four consecutive AFL Grand Finals, yielding three premierships (2001–2003). His performance in the 2002 Grand Final against Collingwood was an outstanding example of courage, skill and leadership, only narrowly conceding the

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to opposing captain and former Bears teammate

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Later career

In early 2004, Voss kicked a career-best seven goals against a struggling Adelaide at AAMI Stadium as coach

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looked to play him in the forward line during the latter part of his career. However, a heavy injury toll to the Lions meant that Voss continued his career in the midfield. In 2005, Voss suffered a badly cut calf before Round 2 while renovating his home. He recovered to play his 250th game the following week, but the Lions suffered an embarrassing six-point loss to eventual premiers after they had led by 32 points at the final change. Prior to this, Voss had suffered from tendinitis of the knee but had been able to curtail the problem. The calf injury affected his performances, with the four games after the injury yielding a high possession count of only 16. Voss later improved, and in Round 21 picked up 35 possessions against

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. Soon after the completion of the 2006 season, Voss announced his retirement from his playing career after 289 games and 15 years at the Brisbane Bears and Lions with three premierships and a Brownlow Medal to his name. He was subsequently employed as a sports journalist by Channel 10 in Brisbane. Voss said farewell in what turned out to be his last game, at the Gabba in Round 22 against St Kilda, gathering 34 possessions and two Brownlow Medal votes as a struggling Brisbane Lions team went down by 50 points to finals-bound St Kilda, who won on Brisbane's turf for the first time in a decade. Despite losing badly, the Lions received a long-standing ovation from a sold-out home crowd after the game for their prior premiership efforts as well as general farewell to several other players.

Coaching career

When announcing his retirement at the end of Brisbane's 2006 season, there was speculation that Voss would soon become a senior coach or join Leigh Matthews in the Brisbane Lions coaching team. Voss instead joined the Channel 10 sports commentary team. Voss coached Australia's

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Under-17 squad to victory against the

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. Voss was often mentioned as a candidate to coach the

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after the resignation of

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. He was also linked to various other coaching positions, most notably Carlton. Voss was seen by many to be the likely inaugural coach of the

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side, but he instead signed a two-year deal with the

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as an assistant coach and formally pulled himself out of the Gold Coast bid.

Brisbane Lions senior coach (2009–2013)

When

, senior coach of the Brisbane Lions, resigned at the end of their 2008 season, Eagles' chief executive Trevor Nisbett gave Voss permission to talk with his former club. The Lions later announced Voss as their new senior coach until the end of

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. Voss made his coaching debut in Brisbane's defeat of the West Coast Eagles in Round 1, 2009. In Voss's first season as senior coach of the Brisbane Lions in the 2009 season, he guided the Brisbane Lions into their first finals campaign since 2004, including a comeback elimination final victory over

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after trailing by 30 points early in the fourth quarter. However, the Lions under Voss were eliminated in the semi-finals by the

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. His next two years were not as successful on-field. After the club won its first four matches to be sitting on top of the ladder early in the 2010 season, the Lions under Voss would only win three more games, finishing 13th (out of 16) on the ladder. The Lions' 2011 Season was even worse, with the Lions under Voss finishing 15th (out of 17 teams), its worst placing since 1998 when it won the wooden spoon. This continued in the 2012 season, when the Lions under Voss finished 13th on the ladder. The Lions with Voss kept struggling in the 2013 season, where the Lions sat 12th on the ladder with eight wins and eleven losses after Round 19, 2013. On 13 August 2013, Voss was told that he would not be receiving a contract extension with the Lions for 2014. Voss then opted not to coach out his contract, which expired at the end of the 2013 season. Voss was then replaced by assistant coach

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as caretaker senior coach of the Brisbane Lions for the remainder of the 2013 season.

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was eventually appointed as the new senior coach of the Lions from

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onwards. Voss left the club having coached 109 games for the Lions, achieving 43 wins, 65 losses, and 1 draw, for a winning percentage of 39.91%.

Port Adelaide Football Club assistant coach (2015–2021)

In October 2014, Voss joined the

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as an assistant coach under senior coach

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in the position of midfield manager, replacing Phil Walsh, who had joined the

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. One measure of his success at Port is the number of their midfielders selected for the

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(

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)

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(

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(

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), Charlie Dixon (2020), and 2021 Brownlow medallist

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(2021). Voss left the Port Adelaide Football club at the end of the 2021 season.

Carlton Football Club senior coach (2022–)

In September 2021, following seven years as an assistant with the Power, Voss officially returned to the AFL's senior coaching ranks after being appointed senior coach of the

. Voss replaced David Teague as Carlton's senior coach after the latter’s sacking at the completion of the Blues’ 2021 season. Carlton Football Club President

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on the appointment of Voss as senior coach said in a statement: "After a thorough and considered selection process, Voss's credentials and vast experience in football made him the right person for the job." In the 2022 season, Voss took a leave of absence for one game in Round 2, 2022, against the

after he tested positive for

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. Assistant coach Ashley Hansen filled in as caretaker interim senior coach in the absence of Voss, and Carlton won the game by 12 points. Voss resumed his role as senior coach in Round 3, 2022, against

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, where Carlton won by a point. Carlton under Voss in his first year as senior coach, finished ninth with twelve wins and ten losses, just missing out of the finals, at the end of the 2022 season.

Statistics

Playing statistics

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1995 File:1995 Events Collage V2.png, From left, clockwise: O.J. Simpson is O. J. Simpson murder case, acquitted of the murders of Nicole Brown Simpson and Ronald Goldman from the 1994, year prior in "The Trial of the Century" in the United States; The ...

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1997 File:1997 Events Collage.png, From left, clockwise: The movie set of ''Titanic'', the highest-grossing movie in history at the time; ''Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone'', is published; Comet Hale-Bopp passes by Earth and becomes one of t ...

, style="text-align:center;", , 3 , , 17 , , 9 , , 12 , , 185 , , 152 , , 337 , , 40 , , 21 , , 0.5 , , 0.7 , , 10.9 , , 8.9 , , 19.8 , , 2.4 , , 1.2 , , 4 , - style="background-color: #EAEAEA" ! scope="row" style="text-align:center" , 1998 , style="text-align:center;", , 3 , , 11 , , 4 , , 5 , , 117 , , 122 , , 239 , , 31 , , 22 , , 0.4 , , 0.5 , , 10.6 , , 11.1 , , 21.7 , , 2.8 , , 2.0 , , 7 , - ! scope="row" style="text-align:center" , 1999 , style="text-align:center;", , 3 , , 21 , , 23 , , 13 , , 248 , , 145 , , 393 , , 63 , , 34 , , 1.1 , , 0.6 , , 11.8 , , 6.9 , , 18.7 , , 3.0 , , 1.6 , , 10 , - style="background-color: #EAEAEA" ! scope="row" style="text-align:center" ,

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2003 File:2003 Events Collage.png, From top left, clockwise: The crew of STS-107 perished when the Space Shuttle Columbia disintegrated during reentry into Earth's atmosphere; SARS became an epidemic in China, and was a precursor to SARS-CoV-2; A des ...

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2005 File:2005 Events Collage V2.png, From top left, clockwise: Hurricane Katrina in the Gulf of Mexico; the Funeral of Pope John Paul II is held in Vatican City; "Me at the zoo", the first video ever to be uploaded to YouTube; Eris was discovered in ...

, style="text-align:center;", , 3 , , 21 , , 12 , , 4 , , 241 , , 201 , , 442 , , 92 , , 49 , , 0.6 , , 0.2 , , 11.5 , , 9.6 , , 21.0 , , 4.4 , , 2.3 , , 6 , - style="background-color: #EAEAEA" ! scope="row" style="text-align:center" ,

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Coaching statistics

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, style="text-align:center;", , 22 , , 4 , , 18 , , 0 , , 18.2% , , 15 , , 17 , - ! scope="row" style="text-align:center; font-weight:normal" ,

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Honours and achievements

*Team: **

AFL Premiership This page is a complete chronological listing of VFL/AFL premiers. The Australian Football League (AFL), known as the Victorian Football League (VFL) until 1990, is the elite national competition in men's Australian rules football. The inaugur ...

(

( C),

( C) *Individual: **

: 1996 (tied with

) ** Brisbane Bears Club Champion Award: 1995, 1996 ** Merrett-Murray Medal (

): 2000, 2001, 2003 ** Brisbane Lions Captain: 1997–2006 **

All-Australian The All-Australian team is an all-star team of Australian rules football in Australia, Australian rules footballers, selected by a panel at the end of each season. It represents a complete team, including an interchange bench, of the best-perf ...

: 1996, 1999,

( C),

( C) ** AFLPA Most Valuable Player Award (Leigh Matthews Trophy): 2002, 2003 ** AFLPA Best Captain Award: 2001, 2002 2003, 2004 ** AFLPA Robert Rose Most Courageous Player Award: 2001 ** Herald Sun Player of the Year Award: 2003 **

Lou Richards Medal The Lou Richards Medal is an annual Most Valuable Player award for the Australian Football League, based on votes from the '' Sunday Footy Show'' panel each week. History The Lou Richards Medal is named after former Collingwood player, Lou Ric ...

: 2001 ** Australian Football Media Association Player of the Year Award: 2001

Post-playing career

Voss joined the

Network Ten Network 10 (commonly known as Ten Network, Channel 10 or simply 10) is an Australian commercial television network owned by Ten Network Holdings, a division of the Paramount Networks UK & Australia subsidiary of Paramount Global. One of five ...

AFL commentary team in 2007 in a special comments role. He was also appointed the role of sports anchor on '' 10 News First Queensland''. In 2011, Voss was inducted into the

Controversy

In 2007, Voss was charged for his role in a melee with

Simon Black Simon Black (born 3 April 1979) is a former Australian rules football player and current assistant coach, who played his whole career with the Brisbane Lions in the Australian Football League (AFL). Black was a midfielder with a reputation fo ...

Fraser Gehrig Fraser Gehrig (born 3 March 1976) is a retired Australian rules footballer who played for the St Kilda Football Club and the West Coast Eagles in the Australian Football League (AFL) . Gehrig was a versatile player during his AFL career, begi ...

and three other high-profile AFL players at a Melbourne nightclub. At the resulting trial, Voss agreed to enter a diversion program and therefore no conviction was recorded.

References

External links

Michael Voss at the Brisbane Lions website
* {{DEFAULTSORT:Voss, Michael 10 News First presenters 1975 births Living people All-Australians (AFL) Brisbane Bears players Brisbane Lions players Brisbane Lions Premiership players Brownlow Medal winners Leigh Matthews Trophy winners Brisbane Bears Club Champion winners Brisbane Lions captains Brisbane Lions coaches Australian people of German descent Merrett–Murray Medal winners Morningside Australian Football Club players People from Orbost People from Traralgon Sportspeople from Logan, Queensland Australian rules footballers from Victoria (Australia) Australian rules footballers from Queensland Australian Football Hall of Fame inductees Australia international rules football team players Three-time VFL/AFL Premiership players