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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(

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), which is considered the game's most prestigious individual award; won the Leigh Matthews Trophy 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 Orbost until the age of 11, when he moved with his family to Beenleigh in Logan, Queensland. Voss attended

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during his high-school years in Queensland. His younger brother Brett 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 QAFL 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 Fitzroy 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 James Hird.

Brisbane Lions

At the end of 1996, following the merger of the Fitzroy Football Club 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

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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 AIS Under-17 squad to victory against the South African national Australian rules football team at North West Cricket Stadium in

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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 Gold Coast 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 Carlton 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

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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 Luke Sayers 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

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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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, style="text-align:center;", , 56 , , 6 , , 2 , , 2 , , 61 , , 58 , , 119 , , 22 , , 11 , , 0.3 , , 0.3 , , 10.2 , , 9.7 , , 19.8 , , 3.7 , , 1.8 , , 0 , - ! scope="row" style="text-align:center" , 1993 , style="text-align:center;", , 3 , , 16 , , 7 , , 1 , , 141 , , 116 , , 257 , , 65 , , 22 , , 0.4 , , 0.1 , , 8.8 , , 7.3 , , 16.1 , , 4.1 , , 1.4 , , 1 , - style="background-color: #EAEAEA" ! scope="row" style="text-align:center" ,

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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 ...

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, style="text-align:center;", , 3 , , 24 , , 23 , , 12 , , 336 , , 236 , , 572 , , 87 , , 55 , , 1.0 , , 0.5 , , 14.0 , , 9.8 , , 23.8 , , 3.6 , , 2.3 , , bgcolor="98FB98" , 21 , - ! 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 ...

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, 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 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 ...

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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 ...

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2001 The September 11 attacks against the United States by Al-Qaeda, which killed 2,977 people and instigated the global war on terror, were a defining event of 2001. The United States led a multi-national coalition in an invasion of Afghanist ...

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2002 File:2002 Events Collage.png, From left, clockwise: The 2002 Winter Olympics are held in Salt Lake City; Queen Elizabeth The Queen Mother and her daughter Princess Margaret, Countess of Snowdon die; East Timor gains East Timor independence, indepe ...

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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 ...

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2004 2004 was designated as an International Year of Rice by the United Nations, and the International Year to Commemorate the Struggle Against Slavery and its Abolition (by UNESCO). Events January * January 3 – Flash Airlines Flight ...

, style="text-align:center;", , 3 , , 24 , , 31 , , 17 , , 276 , , 231 , , 507 , , 97 , , 58 , , 1.3 , , 0.7 , , 11.5 , , 9.6 , , 21.1 , , 4.0 , , 2.4 , , 10 , - ! scope="row" style="text-align:center" ,

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2006 File:2006 Events Collage V1.png, From top left, clockwise: The 2006 Winter Olympics open in Turin; Twitter is founded and launched by Jack Dorsey; The Nintendo Wii is released; Montenegro votes to declare independence from Serbia; The 2006 ...

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Coaching statistics

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, style="text-align:center;", , 24 , , 14 , , 9 , , 1 , , 60.4% , , 6 , , 16 , - ! scope="row" style="text-align:center; font-weight:normal" ,

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, style="text-align:center;", , 22 , , 7 , , 15 , , 0 , , 31.8% , , 13 , , 16 , - style="background-color: #EAEAEA" ! scope="row" style="text-align:center; font-weight:normal" ,

, 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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, style="text-align:center;", , 19 , , 8 , , 11 , , 0 , , 42.1% , , 12 , , 18 , - ! scope="row" style="text-align:center; font-weight:normal" , 2022 , style="text-align:center;", , 22 , , 12 , , 10 , , 0 , , 52.4% , , 9 , , 18 , - class="sortbottom" ! colspan=2, Career totals ! 130 ! 54 ! 75 ! 1 ! 41.9% ! colspan=2,

Honours and achievements

*Team: ** AFL Premiership (

( C),

( C) *Individual: **

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

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

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

Post-playing career

Voss joined the

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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 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.

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Michael Voss at the Brisbane Lions website
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