Braith Anasta
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| Anasta playing for the Roosters in 2008 | ||||||
| Personal information | ||||||
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| Full name | Braith Xiannikis Anastasakis | |||||
| Born |
14 January 1982 Sydney, New South Wales, Australia |
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| Playing information | ||||||
| Height | 185 cm (6 ft 1 in) | |||||
| Weight | 97 kg (15 st 4 lb) | |||||
| Position | Five-eighth, Lock | |||||
| Club | ||||||
| Years | Team | Pld | T | G | FG | P |
| 2000–05 | Bulldogs | 110 | 50 | 2 | 10 | 214 |
| 2006–12 | Sydney Roosters | 147 | 36 | 116 | 6 | 382 |
| 2013–14 | Wests Tigers | 31 | 2 | 4 | 2 | 18 |
| Total | 288 | 88 | 122 | 18 | 614 | |
| Representative | ||||||
| Years | Team | Pld | T | G | FG | P |
| 2001 | Australia | 4 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 6 |
| 2002–08 | New South Wales | 10 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 8 |
| 2002–08 | NSW City | 7 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| 2005–07 | Prime Ministers XIII | 2 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 4 |
| 2013 | Greece | 1 | 4 | 15 | 0 | 46 |
| Source: Rugby League Project League Central | ||||||
Braith Xiannikis Anastasakis (Greek: Μπρεϊθ Ξιαννίκης Αναστασάκης), commonly known as Braith Anasta, (born 14 January 1982) is a Greek Australian former professional rugby league footballer of the 2000s and 2010s. An Australian international and New South Wales State of Origin representative five-eighth (though he has played a large portion of his career at lock forward), Anasta previously played for the Bulldogs (with whom he won the 2004 NRL Premiership), Sydney Roosters and Wests Tigers.
Braith was born in 1982 in Sydney, New South Wales to a Greek father, Petros ("Peter") who came from Rhodes, Greece and an Australian mother, Kim. While attending Marcellin College Randwick, Anasta played for the Australian Schoolboys team in 1999. After playing his junior football for the Maroubra Lions (a South Sydney junior club), Anasta joined the Bulldogs ahead of the 2000 NRL season. Braith announced his retirement live on Fox Sports on 16 August 2014.
Despite spending a majority of his first season in Jersey Flegg, Anasta made his first grade début at the age of 18 on 2 June 2000 against the Parramatta Eels at Parramatta Stadium, filling in for the injured Jason Hetherington. This was the only first grade game Anasta played in 2000, however he had a great deal of success with the Bulldogs Jersey Flegg side, helping them to a premiership victory over the Western Suburbs Magpies.
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