Mitchell John Georgiades ( ; born 28 September 2001) is an

Australian rules football Australian football, also called Australian rules football or Aussie rules, or more simply football or footy, is a contact sport played between two teams of 18 players on an Australian rules football playing field, oval field, often a modified ...

er who plays for

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in the

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(AFL). Georgiades' father

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played 103 games for

West Australian Football League The West Australian Football League (WAFL "waffle" or "W-A-F-L") is an Australian rules football league based in Perth, Western Australia. The league currently consists of ten teams, which play each other in a 20-round season usually lasting f ...

(WAFL) club and 15 games for

Victorian Football League The Victorian Football League (VFL) is an Australian rules football competition in Australia operated by the Australian Football League (AFL) as a second-tier, regional, semi-professional competition. It includes teams from clubs based in east ...

(VFL) club Footscray. Georgiades made his AFL debut in Round 1 of the 2020 Season against Gold Coast, kicking two goals. Georgiades, after a strong three-goal outing against

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in Round 9 of the 2020 Premiership Season, he was awarded an

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nomination. He became one of the few individuals to be nominated for the rising star award twice. Georgiades only played two senior matches in 2023 after injury his knee whilst attempting a mark in the second quarter of a

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game at

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. This injury ruled Georgiades out for the rest of the season.

Statistics

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2021 Like the year 2020, 2021 was also heavily defined by the COVID-19 pandemic, due to the emergence of multiple Variants of SARS-CoV-2, COVID-19 variants. The major global rollout of COVID-19 vaccines, which began at the end of 2020, continued ...

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2022 The year began with another wave in the COVID-19 pandemic, with SARS-CoV-2 Omicron variant, Omicron spreading rapidly and becoming the dominant variant of the SARS-CoV-2 virus worldwide. Tracking a decrease in cases and deaths, 2022 saw ...

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2023 Catastrophic natural disasters in 2023 included the Lists of 21st-century earthquakes, 5th-deadliest earthquake of the 21st century 2023 Turkey–Syria earthquakes, striking Turkey and Syria, leaving up to 62,000 people dead; Cyclone Freddy ...

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2024 The year saw the list of ongoing armed conflicts, continuation of major armed conflicts, including the Russian invasion of Ukraine, the Myanmar civil war (2021–present), Myanmar civil war, the Sudanese civil war (2023–present), Sudane ...

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2025 So far, the year has seen the continuation of major armed conflicts, including the Russian invasion of Ukraine, the Sudanese civil war (2023–present), Sudanese civil war, and the Gaza war. Internal crises in Bangladesh post-resignation v ...

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* * * {{DEFAULTSORT:Georgiades, Mitch 2001 births Australian people of Greek descent Sportspeople of Greek descent Living people Port Adelaide Football Club players Port Adelaide Football Club players (all competitions) Australian rules footballers from Western Australia People educated at Hale School 21st-century Australian sportsmen