Brent Guerra
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Guerra playing for Hawthorn during the 2007 AFL Season
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| Full name | Brent Guerra | ||
| Date of birth | 29 May 1982 | ||
| Place of birth | Koondrook Victoria | ||
| Original team(s) | Bendigo Pioneers (TAC Cup), Koondrook-Barham | ||
| Draft | No. 28, 1999 National Draft, Port Adelaide | ||
| Height / weight | 182cm / 90 kg | ||
| Position(s) | Forward and defender | ||
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| Years | Club | Games (Goals) | |
| 2000 – 2003 | Port Adelaide | 65 (39) | |
| 2004 – 2005 | St Kilda | 31 (44) | |
| 2006 – 2013 | Hawthorn | 159 (25) | |
| Total | 255 (108) | ||
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1 Playing statistics correct to the end of 2013.
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| Sources: AFL Tables, AustralianFootball.com | |||
Brent Guerra (born 29 May 1982) is a former Australian rules footballer who played for Hawthorn in the Australian Football League (AFL), having also previously played for Port Adelaide and St Kilda.
Beginning his career at Port Adelaide in 2000, he was seen as a potentially dangerous winger or forward. Brent Guerra also won three SANFL Premierships with Central District. However, at the end of 2003 he was traded from the club due to Guerra wanting to return to Victoria and the Saints picked him up for pick 39, who was the unsuccessful Robert Forster-Knight.
Guerra was a key figure for a period during the Saints' early season run in 2004 when St Kilda won the 2004 Wizard Home Loans Cup and the first 10 games of the home and away season. He kicked 20 goals in six games, including seven in one game. From then, however, his form tapered and he finished with only nine more goals from the remaining 12 games. He was noted for a number of incidents when he shirtfronted players, including once before the opening bounce of a game (for which he was suspended).
In 2005, Guerra had another average year and, at the end of the season, the Saints delisted him.
The Hawthorn Football Club selected Guerra with pick three in the 2005 AFL Pre-season draft. Guerra had a connection with Hawks' coach Alastair Clarkson from Clarkson's time as a premiership coach at Central Districts (2001) and assistant coach at Port Adelaide. Guerra was reinvented at Hawthorn as a strong-bodied half back flanker and added experience to a very young Hawks' lineup in 2006. His hard-nosed approach has at times attracted the attention of umpires. In 2007 and 2008 he averaged in excess of 20 possessions per game, displaying a consistency which was lacking earlier in his career up forward.
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