Andrejs Everitt (born 13 March 1989) is a former professional Australian rules footballer who played for the

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, Sydney Swans and

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in the Australian Football League (AFL). He is the younger brother of former , and Sydney player

Peter Everitt Peter "Spida" Everitt (born 3 May 1974) is a former Australian rules footballer who played for the St Kilda Football Club, Hawthorn Football Club and Sydney Swans in the Australian Football League (AFL). He played for St Kilda from 1993 to 2002 ...

. Everitt was picked in the

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at pick 11 from the

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. At the end of the 2007 AFL season, Andrejs was given Chris Grant's old No. 3 guernsey on Grant's insistence, although the club had contemplated

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the number. At the end of the 2010 season, Everitt was traded to the Sydney Swans, in return for Patrick Veszpremi and a late round draft selection. Andrejs Everitt has a Latvian mother and an Australian father. His mother named him Andrejs in recognition of her Latvian heritage. In Round 3, Everitt stamped himself as a Swans player, leading the team to victory over the

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with 2 crucial goals in the last quarter. Everitt also kicked one of the most famous goals at the SCG vs

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. with less than a minute to go he kicked a goal from fifty right on the boundary to win it for the Swans. At the end of the 2013 season, Everitt was traded to the Carlton Football Club. He spent three seasons with Carlton, playing a total of 52 games. He finished as the club's leading goalkicker in 2015 with 31 goals, but struggled with form in 2016 and was delisted in October. He subsequently announced his retirement from AFL football in November. Everitt will return to play and co-coach at Somerville in the

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, his local club when he was a junior, from 2017.

Statistics

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2007 File:2007 Events Collage.png, From top left, clockwise: Steve Jobs unveils Apple's first iPhone; TAM Airlines Flight 3054 overruns a runway and crashes into a gas station, killing almost 200 people; Former Pakistani Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto ...

, , 29 , , 8 , , 4 , , 4 , , 66 , , 43 , , 109 , , 33 , , 14 , , 0.5 , , 0.5 , , 8.3 , , 5.4 , , 13.6 , , 4.1 , , 1.8 , , 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 ...

, , 3 , , 9 , , 0 , , 0 , , 71 , , 41 , , 112 , , 33 , , 15 , , 0.0 , , 0.0 , , 7.9 , , 4.6 , , 12.4 , , 3.7 , , 1.7 , , 0 , - style="background-color: #EAEAEA" ! scope="row" style="text-align:center" ,

2009 File:2009 Events Collage V2.png, From top left, clockwise: The vertical stabilizer of Air France Flight 447 is pulled out from the Atlantic Ocean; Barack Obama becomes the first African American to become President of the United States; 2009 Iran ...

, , 3 , , 7 , , 1 , , 2 , , 50 , , 40 , , 90 , , 30 , , 13 , , 0.1 , , 0.3 , , 7.1 , , 5.7 , , 12.9 , , 4.3 , , 1.9 , , 0 , - ! scope="row" style="text-align:center" ,

2010 File:2010 Events Collage New.png, From top left, clockwise: The 2010 Chile earthquake was one of the strongest recorded in history; The Eruption of Eyjafjallajökull in Iceland disrupts air travel in Europe; A scene from the opening ceremony of ...

, , 3 , , 12 , , 3 , , 5 , , 102 , , 90 , , 192 , , 69 , , 28 , , 0.3 , , 0.4 , , 8.5 , , 7.5 , , 16.0 , , 5.8 , , 2.3 , , 0 , - style="background-color: #EAEAEA" ! scope="row" style="text-align:center" , 2011 , , 13 , , 11 , , 8 , , 5 , , 66 , , 28 , , 94 , , 40 , , 18 , , 0.7 , , 0.5 , , 6.0 , , 2.5 , , 8.5 , , 3.6 , , 1.6 , , 0 , - ! scope="row" style="text-align:center" ,

2012 File:2012 Events Collage V3.png, From left, clockwise: The passenger cruise ship Costa Concordia lies capsized after the Costa Concordia disaster; Damage to Casino Pier in Seaside Heights, New Jersey as a result of Hurricane Sandy; People gather ...

, , 13 , , 12 , , 9 , , 8 , , 66 , , 50 , , 116 , , 17 , , 25 , , 0.8 , , 0.7 , , 5.5 , , 4.2 , , 9.7 , , 1.4 , , 2.1 , , 0 , - style="background-color: #EAEAEA" ! scope="row" style="text-align:center" ,

2013 File:2013 Events Collage V2.png, From left, clockwise: Edward Snowden becomes internationally famous for leaking classified NSA wiretapping information; Typhoon Haiyan kills over 6,000 in the Philippines and Southeast Asia; The Dhaka garment ...

, , 13 , , 20 , , 7 , , 3 , , 169 , , 139 , , 308 , , 78 , , 37 , , 0.4 , , 0.2 , , 8.5 , , 7.0 , , 15.4 , , 3.9 , , 1.9 , , 0 , - ! scope="row" style="text-align:center" ,

2014 File:2014 Events Collage.png, From top left, clockwise: Stocking up supplies and personal protective equipment (PPE) for the Western African Ebola virus epidemic; Citizens examining the ruins after the Chibok schoolgirls kidnapping; Bundles of wat ...

, , 33 , , 17 , , 13 , , 7 , , 160 , , 126 , , 286 , , 89 , , 38 , , 0.8 , , 0.4 , , 9.4 , , 7.4 , , 16.8 , , 5.2 , , 2.2 , , 3 , - style="background:#eaeaea;" ! scope="row" style="text-align:center" ,

2015 File:2015 Events Collage new.png, From top left, clockwise: Civil service in remembrance of November 2015 Paris attacks; Germanwings Flight 9525 was purposely crashed into the French Alps; the rubble of residences in Kathmandu following the April ...

, , 33 , , 22 , , 31 , , 20 , , 225 , , 109 , , 334 , , 132 , , 30 , , 1.4 , , 0.9 , , 10.2 , , 5.0 , , 15.2 , , 6.0 , , 1.4 , , 0 , - ! scope="row" style="text-align:center" , 2016 , , 33 , , 13 , , 17 , , 8 , , 99 , , 81 , , 180 , , 67 , , 17 , , 1.3 , , 0.6 , , 7.6 , , 6.2 , , 13.8 , , 5.2 , , 1.3 , , 2 , - class="sortbottom" ! colspan=3, Career ! 131 ! 93 ! 62 ! 1074 ! 747 ! 1821 ! 588 ! 235 ! 0.7 ! 0.5 ! 8.2 ! 5.7 ! 13.9 ! 4.5 ! 1.8 ! 5

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* * {{DEFAULTSORT:Everitt, Andrejs Sydney Swans players Western Bulldogs players Carlton Football Club players 1989 births Living people Australian rules footballers from Melbourne Dandenong Stingrays players Australian people of Latvian descent Preston Football Club (VFA) players People from Hastings, Victoria People from the City of Knox