Milham Hanna (born 5 April 1966) is a former

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er best known for his playing career with the

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in the 1980s and 1990s. Nicknamed ''The Cranium'' (after his cleanly shaven head, due to

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) or simply ''Mil'' for short, Hanna is distinguished as having been the first Lebanese-born player in the history of the

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(VFL/AFL). and the only AFL player of Lebanese descent until the debut of

Bachar Houli Bachar Houli ( ar, بشار حولي, born 12 May 1988) is a former Australian rules footballer who played 232 games over a 15-year career with and in the Australian Football League (AFL). He is a three-time premiership player with Richmond ...

in 2007. Hanna grew up in the inner-northern suburbs of

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, where he played his junior football in

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. He was known in the VFL/AFL for his athletic physique and fast pace playing as a tall running wingman. Hanna made his senior playing debut in 1986, but ruptured his

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during his first game. Following almost a year of rehabilitation, he enjoyed a largely injury-free career with Carlton. Hanna played in two

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s for Carlton: in the 1993 losing side and Carlton's premiership-winning team in 1995. He was selected as a member of the

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in 1992. After being delisted by Carlton, he trained with , but was unable to be drafted by them due to Richmond being banned from participating in the 1998 pre-season draft due to them exceeding the

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in 1997. Hanna was inducted into Carlton's Hall of Fame in 2016.

Statistics

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1986 The year 1986 was designated as the International Year of Peace by the United Nations. Events January * January 1 ** Aruba gains increased autonomy from the Netherlands by separating from the Netherlands Antilles. **Spain and Portugal ente ...

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1987 File:1987 Events Collage.png, From top left, clockwise: The MS Herald of Free Enterprise capsizes after leaving the Port of Zeebrugge in Belgium, killing 193; Northwest Airlines Flight 255 crashes after takeoff from Detroit Metropolitan Airport, k ...

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1988 File:1988 Events Collage.png, From left, clockwise: The oil platform Piper Alpha explodes and collapses in the North Sea, killing 165 workers; The USS Vincennes (CG-49) mistakenly shoots down Iran Air Flight 655; Australia celebrates its Australian ...

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1989 File:1989 Events Collage.png, From left, clockwise: The Cypress Street Viaduct, Cypress structure collapses as a result of the 1989 Loma Prieta earthquake, killing motorists below; The proposal document for the World Wide Web is submitted; The Exxo ...

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1990 File:1990 Events Collage.png, From left, clockwise: The 1990 FIFA World Cup is played in Italy; The Human Genome Project is launched; Voyager I takes the famous Pale Blue Dot image- speaking on the fragility of Humankind, humanity on Earth, Astroph ...

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1991 File:1991 Events Collage.png, From left, clockwise: Boris Yeltsin, elected as Russia's first president, waves the new flag of Russia after the 1991 Soviet coup d'état attempt, orchestrated by Soviet hardliners; Mount Pinatubo erupts in the Phil ...

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1992 File:1992 Events Collage V1.png, From left, clockwise: 1992 Los Angeles riots, Riots break out across Los Angeles, California after the Police brutality, police beating of Rodney King; El Al Flight 1862 crashes into a residential apartment buildi ...

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1993 File:1993 Events Collage.png, From left, clockwise: The Oslo I Accord is signed in an attempt to resolve the Israeli–Palestinian conflict; The Russian White House is shelled during the 1993 Russian constitutional crisis; Czechoslovakia is peace ...

, style="text-align:center;", , 13 , , 20 , , 2 , , 10 , , 232 , , 123 , , 355 , , 79 , , 24 , , 0.1 , , 0.5 , , 11.6 , , 6.2 , , 17.8 , , 4.0 , , 1.2 , , 4 , - style="background-color: #EAEAEA" ! scope="row" style="text-align:center" ,

1994 File:1994 Events Collage.png, From left, clockwise: The 1994 Winter Olympics are held in Lillehammer, Norway; The Kaiser Permanente building after the 1994 Northridge earthquake; A model of the MS Estonia, which Sinking of the MS Estonia, sank in ...

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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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1996 File:1996 Events Collage.png, From left, clockwise: A Centennial Olympic Park bombing, bomb explodes at Centennial Olympic Park in Atlanta, set off by a radical Anti-abortion violence, anti-abortionist; The center fuel tank explodes on TWA Flight 8 ...

, style="text-align:center;", , 13 , , 10 , , 3 , , 2 , , 103 , , 50 , , 153 , , 51 , , 13 , , 0.3 , , 0.2 , , 10.3 , , 5.0 , , 15.3 , , 5.1 , , 1.3 , , 0 , - ! scope="row" style="text-align:center" ,

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 ...

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References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Hanna, Milham 1966 births VFL/AFL players born outside Australia Lebanese emigrants to Australia Sportspeople of Lebanese descent All-Australians (AFL) Carlton Football Club players Carlton Football Club premiership players Australian rules footballers from Melbourne Victorian State of Origin players Lebanese sportspeople Living people Australia international rules football team players VFL/AFL premiership players