Steven Febey (born 19 August 1969) is a former

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 ...

player for the

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from Devonport. He is the twin brother of Matthew Febey beside whom he played for most of his career. Febey debuted in 1988 and was a regular in the team throughout the 1990s, wearing guernsey number 21. During the 2001 season he was dropped from the side but came back strongly to finish fourth in the best and fairest. When he retired in 2002 with 258 games to his name he held the record for most appearances by a player selected in the national draft. He fell just short of

Robert Flower Robert Alan Flower (5 August 1955 – 2 October 2014) was an Australian rules footballer with Melbourne Football Club. His first game was against Geelong in 1973 and he captained the team from 1981 until his final game in 1987. He held the rec ...

's club record of 272 games and as of 2007 only four people have played more games for the Demons After the 2002 season, Febey went to

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with his teammates and was caught up in the

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which devastated the island. Standing beside former Demons player Steven Armstrong and David Robbins, Febey was about to enter the

Sari Club The 2002 Bali bombings were a series of terrorist attacks on 12 October 2002 in the tourist district of Kuta on the Indonesian island of Bali. The attacks killed 202 people (including 88 Australians, 38 Indonesians, 23 Britons, and people o ...

when the car bomb exploded. He escaped with just minor injuries. He was the only Demon to play in both the

1988 1988 was a crucial year in the early history of the Internet—it was the year of the first well-known computer virus, the Morris worm, 1988 Internet worm. The first permanent intercontinental Internet link was made between the United State ...

and 2000 losing grand final teams.

Statistics

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1989 1989 was a turning point in political history with the "Revolutions of 1989" which ended communism in Eastern Bloc of Europe, starting in Poland and Hungary, with experiments in power-sharing coming to a head with the opening of the Berlin W ...

, , 21 , , 20 , , 3 , , 1 , , 252 , , 86 , , 338 , , 73 , , 26 , , 0.2 , , 0.1 , , 12.6 , , 4.3 , , 16.9 , , 3.7 , , 1.3 , - style="background-color: #EAEAEA" ! scope="row" style="text-align:center" ,

1990 Important events of 1990 include the Reunification of Germany and the unification of Yemen, the formal beginning of the Human Genome Project (finished in 2003), the launch of the Hubble Space Telescope, the separation of Namibia from South ...

, , 21 , , 23 , , 6 , , 9 , , 256 , , 80 , , 336 , , 77 , , 26 , , 0.3 , , 0.4 , , 11.1 , , 3.5 , , 14.6 , , 3.3 , , 1.1 , - ! scope="row" style="text-align:center" ,

1991 It was the final year of the Cold War, which had begun in 1947. During the year, the Soviet Union Dissolution of the Soviet Union, collapsed, leaving Post-soviet states, fifteen sovereign republics and the Commonwealth of Independent State ...

, , 21 , , 19 , , 3 , , 8 , , 220 , , 68 , , 288 , , 69 , , 35 , , 0.2 , , 0.4 , , 11.6 , , 3.6 , , 15.2 , , 3.6 , , 1.8 , - style="background-color: #EAEAEA" ! scope="row" style="text-align:center" ,

1992 1992 was designated as International Space Year by the United Nations. Events January * January 1 – Boutros Boutros-Ghali of Egypt replaces Javier Pérez de Cuéllar of Peru as United Nations Secretary-General. * January 6 ** The Republ ...

, , 21 , , 14 , , 2 , , 2 , , 121 , , 81 , , 202 , , 44 , , 21 , , 0.1 , , 0.1 , , 8.6 , , 5.8 , , 14.4 , , 3.1 , , 1.5 , - ! scope="row" style="text-align:center" ,

1993 The United Nations General Assembly, General Assembly of the United Nations designated 1993 as: * International Year for the World's Indigenous People The year 1993 in the Kwajalein Atoll in the Marshall Islands had only 364 days, since its ...

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1994 The year 1994 was designated as the " International Year of the Family" and the "International Year of Sport and the Olympic Ideal" by the United Nations. In the Line Islands and Phoenix Islands of Kiribati, 1994 had only 364 days, omitti ...

, , 21 , , 25 , , 3 , , 4 , , 301 , , 154 , , 455 , , 66 , , 43 , , 0.1 , , 0.2 , , 12.0 , , 6.2 , , 18.2 , , 2.6 , , 1.7 , - ! scope="row" style="text-align:center" ,

1995 1995 was designated as: * United Nations Year for Tolerance * World Year of Peoples' Commemoration of the Victims of the Second World War This was the first year that the Internet was entirely privatized, with the United States government ...

, , 21 , , 22 , , 2 , , 4 , , 287 , , 107 , , 394 , , 95 , , 23 , , 0.1 , , 0.2 , , 13.0 , , 4.9 , , 17.9 , , 4.3 , , 1.0 , - style="background-color: #EAEAEA" ! scope="row" style="text-align:center" ,

1996 1996 was designated as: * International Year for the Eradication of Poverty Events January * January 8 – A Zairean cargo plane crashes into a crowded market in the center of the capital city of the Democratic Republic of the Congo ...

, , 21 , , 5 , , 0 , , 0 , , 38 , , 24 , , 62 , , 10 , , 5 , , 0.0 , , 0.0 , , 7.6 , , 4.8 , , 12.4 , , 2.0 , , 1.0 , - ! scope="row" style="text-align:center" ,

1997 Events January * January 1 – The Emergency Alert System is introduced in the United States. * January 11 – Turkey threatens Cyprus on account of a deal to buy Russian S-300 missiles, prompting the Cypriot Missile Crisis. * January 1 ...

, , 21 , , 20 , , 2 , , 6 , , 215 , , 132 , , 347 , , 51 , , 23 , , 0.1 , , 0.3 , , 10.8 , , 6.6 , , 17.4 , , 2.6 , , 1.2 , - style="background-color: #EAEAEA" ! 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 Lunar water, frozen water, in soil i ...

, , 21 , , 25 , , 7 , , 3 , , 309 , , 191 , , 500 , , 77 , , 60 , , 0.3 , , 0.1 , , 12.4 , , 7.6 , , 20.0 , , 3.1 , , 2.4 , - ! scope="row" style="text-align:center" ,

1999 1999 was designated as the International Year of Older Persons. Events January * January 1 – The euro currency is established and the European Central Bank assumes its full powers. * January 3 – The Mars Polar Lander is launc ...

, , 21 , , 12 , , 0 , , 2 , , 125 , , 73 , , 198 , , 33 , , 16 , , 0.0 , , 0.2 , , 10.4 , , 6.1 , , 16.5 , , 2.8 , , 1.3 , - style="background-color: #EAEAEA" ! scope="row" style="text-align:center" ,

2000 2000 was designated as the International Year for the Culture of Peace and the World Mathematics, Mathematical Year. Popular culture holds the year 2000 as the first year of the 21st century and the 3rd millennium, because of a tende ...

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2001 The year's most prominent event was the September 11 attacks against the United States by al-Qaeda, which Casualties of the September 11 attacks, killed 2,977 people and instigated the global war on terror. The United States led a Participan ...

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* {{DEFAULTSORT:Febey, Steven 1969 births Living people Australian rules footballers from Tasmania Melbourne Football Club players Devonport Football Club players Victorian State of Origin players Tasmanian Football Hall of Fame inductees Sportspeople from Devonport, Tasmania Australian twins Allies State of Origin players Tasmanian State of Origin players Twin teammates in sports