Adem Yze ( ; born 21 September 1977)MelbourneFC.com.a
Player Profile – Adem Yze
, ''Official AFL Website of the Melbourne Football Club'', 12 August 2008. is a former Australian rules footballer who played for the Melbourne Football Club in the Australian Football League (AFL). In October 2019, he re-signed with

Hawthorn Football Club The Hawthorn Football Club, nicknamed the Hawks, is a professional Australian rules football club based in Mulgrave, Victoria, that competes in the Australian Football League (AFL). The club was founded in 1902 in the inner-east suburb of Hawt ...

and returned to the position of forwards coach in 2020, continuing as Head of Match Day Strategy & Opposition. Yze, of Albanian descent, "As one of the first footballers of Albanian heritage to take their skills to AFL level, Adem Yze" was educated at Galvin Park Secondary College in

Werribee Werribee is a suburb in Melbourne, Victoria (Australia), Victoria, Australia, south-west of Melbourne's Melbourne City Centre, Central Business District, located within the City of Wyndham Local government areas of Victoria, local government a ...

Victoria Victoria most commonly refers to: * Victoria (Australia), a state of the Commonwealth of Australia * Victoria, British Columbia, provincial capital of British Columbia, Canada * Victoria (mythology), Roman goddess of Victory * Victoria, Seychelle ...

. He has made the fourth-highest number of appearances in the history of the Melbourne Football Club.

AFL career

Taken at #16 in the 1994 National AFL Draft, and debuting in 1995 with Melbourne, he was a near-permanent fixture with the club throughout his career. He remained remarkably consistent in this time, moving from half-back to the midfield and towards the end of his playing career moving between half-forward and half-back. Yze led the league for kicks in 2001, 2002 and 2004, while coming third behind Scott Camporeale and

Nathan Buckley Nathan Charles Buckley (born 26 July 1972) is a former professional Australian rules football coach, player and commentator. He is listed by journalist Mike Sheahan as one of the top 50 players of all time. Buckley won the inaugural Rising S ...

in 2000. In 2007, Yze struggled with his form during the pre-season. After a disappointing performance against St Kilda in Round 1, his streak of 226 consecutive AFL appearances was put to an end, with Melbourne deciding to drop him for the Round 2 game against

Hawthorn Hawthorn or Hawthorns may refer to: Plants * '' Crataegus'' (hawthorn), a large genus of shrubs and trees in the family Rosaceae * ''Rhaphiolepis'' (hawthorn), a genus of about 15 species of evergreen shrubs and small trees in the family Rosace ...

. Yze was then selected for Melbourne's Round 4 match against Fremantle and picked up a career-high 38-possessions and kicked one goal, being named as one of the best on ground for the day. Despite seeing very little first-team action in 2008—the last year of his contract at Melbourne—Yze declared his intention to continue playing football, even if that meant he entered the draft or played at VFL level. At 30, Yze felt he could play on for another two or three years. Due to Melbourne's youth policy introduced at the end of the 2008 season, Adem was delisted after only six senior appearances for the year, in which he kicked five goals. Yze expressed his desire to play on at another AFL club in 2009, declaring he would apply for the pre-season draft, yet he conceded he had "stuff all" chances of being picked up by another club. However, Yze declared he would play on regardless in 2009, even if it was at a suburban club, such as East Burwood, where his brother Damian played. Yze played with the Box Hill Hawks and joined the

Shepparton Swans The Shepparton Swans Football Netball Club is an Australian rules football and netball club based in the city of Shepparton in northern Victoria. The club teams currently compete in the Goulburn Valley League. History The Shepparton Swans w ...

a year later. In 2013 and 2014 he played with second division clubs Glen Orden and

West Footscray West Footscray is an inner-city suburb in Melbourne, Victoria, Australia, west of Melbourne's Central Business District, located within the City of Maribyrnong local government area. West Footscray recorded a population of 11,729 at the . ...

in the

Western Region Football League The Western Region Football League is an Australian rules football semi-professional league, based in the western suburbs of Melbourne, for both seniors and juniors. History The league was formed in 1931 as the "Footscray District Football Le ...

. Yze was known for his straight kicks and ability to kick goals from seemingly impossible angles. He kicked five goals in a game on five occasions. He is also noted for being one of very few

Muslims Muslims ( ar, المسلمون, , ) are people who adhere to Islam, a monotheistic religion belonging to the Abrahamic tradition. They consider the Quran, the foundational religious text of Islam, to be the verbatim word of the God of Abrah ...

to play Australian rules professionally, although he does not actively practise Islam.

Coaching career

In January 2012, Yze joined Hawthorn as a part-time assistant coach. On 14 November 2014, Yze replaced

Luke Beveridge Luke Beveridge (born 23 August 1970) is an Australian rules football coach and former player who played for Melbourne, Footscray and St Kilda in the Australian Football League (AFL) during the 1990s. He is head coach of the Western Bulldogs.< ...

as Hawthorn's backline coach, after previously working with the Hawks as a specialist goal-kicking and development coach for the past three seasons. Yze was credited for played a key role in harnessing the Hawthorn players' elite kicking skills as they developed into the AFL's deadliest team in front of goal over the past two seasons, with the team's accuracy increasing from 48 per cent to 57.1 per cent during his tenure as goalkicking coach. After six seasons as a assistant coach Yze was appointed to the coaching board for the 2021 Season. The Demons would have an outstanding 2021 season in which they finished on top of the ladder and were a dominant team throughout the regular season and the finals series which was capped off with a commanding victory over the Western Bulldogs to win the 2021 premiership. Adem Yze was a key architect in creating their league best defence that was a key factor in their historic premiership win. In the 2022 season Melbourne would continue their dominant ways extending the winning streak to 17 games, until the second half of the year in which momentum was halted and they struggled with consistency. Yze continued his role as midfield coach overseeing arguably the best midfield in the competition while their team defence still remained elite and one of the top in the competition. Near the end of the season Yze was heavily linked to the vacant GWS and later Essendon senior coaching role, however the role was eventually awarded to then Richmond assistant coach Adam Kingsley and Brad Scott.

Statistics

Playing statistics

: , - style="background-color: #EAEAEA" ! scope="row" style="text-align:center" ,

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

, style="text-align:center;", , 44 , , 9 , , 3 , , 4 , , 55 , , 23 , , 78 , , 17 , , 8 , , 0.3 , , 0.4 , , 6.1 , , 2.6 , , 8.7 , , 1.9 , , 0.9 , , 0 , - ! scope="row" style="text-align:center" , 1996 , style="text-align:center;", , 13 , , 19 , , 9 , , 8 , , 136 , , 40 , , 176 , , 48 , , 16 , , 0.5 , , 0.4 , , 7.2 , , 2.1 , , 9.3 , , 2.5 , , 0.8 , , 0 , - style="background:#eaeaea;" ! 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 ...

, style="text-align:center;", , 13 , , 19 , , 9 , , 16 , , 203 , , 34 , , 237 , , 62 , , 21 , , 0.5 , , 0.8 , , 10.7 , , 1.8 , , 12.5 , , 3.3 , , 1.1 , , 0 , - ! scope="row" style="text-align:center" ,

1998 1998 was designated as the ''International Year of the Ocean''. Events January * January 6 – The ''Lunar Prospector'' spacecraft is launched into orbit around the Moon, and later finds evidence for frozen water, in soil in permanently s ...

, style="text-align:center;", , 13 , , 25 , , 7 , , 5 , , 394 , , 95 , , 489 , , 110 , , 37 , , 0.3 , , 0.2 , , 15.8 , , 3.8 , , 19.6 , , 4.4 , , 1.5 , , 0 , - style="background:#eaeaea;" ! scope="row" style="text-align:center" ,

1999 File:1999 Events Collage.png, From left, clockwise: The funeral procession of King Hussein of Jordan in Amman; the 1999 İzmit earthquake kills over 17,000 people in Turkey; the Columbine High School massacre, one of the first major school shoot ...

, style="text-align:center;", , 13 , , 22 , , 10 , , 5 , , 269 , , 79 , , 348 , , 54 , , 26 , , 0.5 , , 0.2 , , 12.2 , , 3.6 , , 15.8 , , 2.5 , , 1.2 , , 0 , - ! scope="row" style="text-align:center" ,

2000 File:2000 Events Collage.png, From left, clockwise: Protests against Bush v. Gore after the 2000 United States presidential election; Heads of state meet for the Millennium Summit; The International Space Station in its infant form as seen from S ...

, style="text-align:center;", , 13 , , 25 , , 37 , , 23 , , 411 , , 123 , , 534 , , 104, , 42 , , 1.5 , , 0.9 , , 16.4 , , 4.9 , , 21.4 , , 4.2 , , 1.7 , , 14 , - style="background:#eaeaea;" ! scope="row" style="text-align:center" , 2001 , style="text-align:center;", , 13 , , 22 , , 24 , , 26 , , bgcolor="DD6E81", 417 , , 72 , , 489 , , 105 , , 37 , , 1.1 , , 1.2 , , bgcolor="b7e718", 19.0 , , 3.3 , , 22.2 , , 4.8 , , 1.7 , , 8 , - ! scope="row" style="text-align:center" , 2002 , style="text-align:center;", , 13 , , 24 , , 19 , , 13 , , bgcolor="DD6E81", 441 , , 105 , , 546 , , 106 , , 67 , , 0.8 , , 0.5 , , bgcolor="DD6E81", 18.4 , , 4.4 , , 22.8 , , 4.4 , , 2.8 , , 17 , -style="background:#eaeaea;" ! scope="row" style="text-align:center" , 2003 , style="text-align:center;", , 13 , , 22 , , 17 , , 8 , , 340 , , 113 , , 453 , , 74 , , 43 , , 0.8 , , 0.4 , , 15.5 , , 5.1 , , 20.6 , , 3.4 , , 2.0 , , 5 , - ! scope="row" style="text-align:center" , 2004 , style="text-align:center;", , 13 , , 23 , , 19 , , 21 , , bgcolor="DD6E81", 410 , , 104 , , 514 , , 99 , , 54 , , 0.8 , , 0.9 , , bgcolor="DD6E81", 17.8 , , 4.5 , , 22.3 , , 4.3 , , 2.3 , , 14 , -style="background:#eaeaea;" ! scope="row" style="text-align:center" , 2005 , style="text-align:center;", , 13 , , 23 , , 41 , , 34 , , 270 , , 52 , , 322 , , 99 , , 34 , , 1.8 , , 1.5 , , 11.7 , , 2.3 , , 14.0 , , 4.3 , , 1.5 , , 7 , - ! scope="row" style="text-align:center" , 2006 , style="text-align:center;", , 13 , , 24 , , 30 , , 16 , , 356 , , 120 , , 476 , , 128 , , 44 , , 1.3 , , 0.7 , , 14.8 , , 5.0 , , 19.8 , , 5.3 , , 1.8 , , 5 , -style="background:#eaeaea;" ! scope="row" style="text-align:center" , 2007 , style="text-align:center;", , 13 , , 8 , , 4 , , 6 , , 111 , , 54 , , 165 , , 36 , , 16 , , 0.5 , , 0.8 , , 13.9 , , 6.8 , , 20.6 , , 4.5 , , 2.0 , , 0 , - ! scope="row" style="text-align:center" ,

2008 File:2008 Events Collage.png, From left, clockwise: Lehman Brothers went bankrupt following the Subprime mortgage crisis; Cyclone Nargis killed more than 138,000 in Myanmar; A scene from the opening ceremony of the 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing; ...

, style="text-align:center;", , 13 , , 6 , , 5 , , 9 , , 86 , , 26 , , 112 , , 35 , , 5 , , 0.8 , , 1.5 , , 14.3 , , 4.3 , , 18.7 , , 5.8 , , 0.8 , , 1 , - class="sortbottom" ! colspan=3, Career ! 271 ! 234 ! 194 ! 3899 ! 1040 ! 4939 ! 1077 ! 450 ! 0.9 ! 0.7 ! 14.4 ! 3.8 ! 18.2 ! 4.0 ! 1.7 ! 71

Coaching statistics

: , - style="background-color: #EAEAEA" ! scope="row" style="text-align:center; font-weight:normal" ,

2022 File:2022 collage V1.png, Clockwise, from top left: Road junction at Yamato-Saidaiji Station several hours after the assassination of Shinzo Abe; Anti-government protest in Sri Lanka in front of the Presidential Secretariat; The global monkeypo ...

* , style="text-align:center;", , 1 , , 1 , , 0 , , 0 , , 100.0% , , TBA , , 18 , - ! colspan=2, Career totals ! 1 ! 1 ! 0 ! 0 ! 100.00% ! colspan=2, ''* Caretaker coach''

Honours and achievements

*Individual **

Keith 'Bluey' Truscott Medal The Keith 'Bluey' Truscott Trophy is an Australian rules football award presented annually to the player(s) adjudged the best and fairest at the Melbourne Football Club throughout the Victorian Football League/Australian Football League (VF ...

: 2001 **

All-Australian The All-Australian team is an all-star team of 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-performed players during the season, led b ...

: 2002 ** Australian Representative Honours in

International Rules Football International rules football ( ga, Peil na rialacha idirnáisiunta; also known as international rules in Australia and compromise rules or Aussie rules in Ireland) is a team sport consisting of a hybrid of football codes, which was developed ...

: 2000, 2002 ** AFL Rising Star Nominee: 1996 (Round 11) ** Centenary Medal Award: 2001

References

External links

* * {{DEFAULTSORT:Yze, Adem Melbourne Football Club players All-Australians (AFL) Keith 'Bluey' Truscott Trophy winners Australian people of Albanian descent People from Shepparton Australian rules footballers from Victoria (Australia) Murray Bushrangers players Shepparton United Football Club players Shepparton Swans Football Club players 1977 births Living people Australia international rules football team players