Charlie Cameron (footballer, born 1994)
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Cameron playing for Adelaide in April 2017
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| Personal information | |||
| Full name | Charlie Mark Cameron | ||
| Nickname(s) | Chucky | ||
| Date of birth | 5 July 1994 | ||
| Place of birth | Mount Isa, Queensland | ||
| Original team(s) | Swan Districts (WAFL) | ||
| Draft | No. 7, 2013 rookie draft | ||
| Debut | Round 9, 2014, Adelaide vs. Collingwood, at Adelaide Oval |
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| Height | 184 cm (6 ft 0 in) | ||
| Weight | 75 kg (165 lb) | ||
| Position(s) | Small forward | ||
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| Current club | Brisbane Lions | ||
| Number | 23 | ||
| Playing career1 | |||
| Years | Club | Games (Goals) | |
| 2014–2017 | Adelaide | 73 (87) | |
| 2018– | Brisbane Lions | 11 (17) | |
| Total | 84 (104) | ||
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1 Playing statistics correct to the end of round 11, 2018.
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| Sources: AFL Tables, AustralianFootball.com | |||
Charlie Mark Cameron (born 5 July 1994) is a professional Australian rules footballer playing for the Brisbane Lions in the Australian Football League (AFL). He previously played for the Adelaide Football Club from 2014 to 2017. Cameron was taken with pick 7 in the 2013 rookie draft by Adelaide.
Cameron was born in Mount Isa, Queensland into an Indigenous Australian family (Lardil and Waanyi). He attended primary school in Mornington Island, Queensland before moving to Brisbane to attend Marist College Ashgrove. As a schoolboy he played baseball, rugby union and rugby league at high levels. He also played several games of Australian rules football while attending Marist College and spent six months in the Brisbane Lions Talent Academy before quitting football to focus on rugby. At the end of 2011, at the age of 17, Cameron moved with his family to Newman, Western Australia and started boarding at Aquinas College in Perth.
While in Newman, Cameron was talked into playing for the local football team, the Newman Saints. He began playing club football for the first time for the Saints in 2012 and impressed so much that, towards the end of the season, he was invited to play for the Swan Districts Football Club and played three colts games. Entering his first pre-season ever with Swan Districts in 2013, he impressed the coaches so much that he earned a spot in the senior team for the first round of the 2013 WAFL season, and represented Western Australia at the 2013 AFL Under 18 Championships, which led to him being picked up by Adelaide in the rookie draft despite only having played a total of 30-40 games of Australian rules football.
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