Cyril Rioli
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Photographed in May 2009
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| Personal information | |||
| Full name | Cyril Rioli | ||
| Nickname(s) | Junior, Junior Boy | ||
| Date of birth | 14 July 1989 | ||
| Place of birth | Tiwi Islands, Australia | ||
| Original team(s) | St Mary's (Darwin), NTFL | ||
| Draft | 12th overall pick, 2007 AFL Draft | ||
| Height / weight | 177cm / 80 kg | ||
| Position(s) | Half forward flank | ||
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| Current club | Hawthorn | ||
| Number | 33 | ||
| Playing career1 | |||
| Years | Club | Games (Goals) | |
| 2008– | Hawthorn | 179 (269) | |
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1 Playing statistics correct to the end of Round 1, 2017.
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| Sources: AFL Tables, AustralianFootball.com | |||
Cyril Rioli (born 14 July 1989) is a professional Australian rules footballer playing for the Hawthorn Football Club in the Australian Football League (AFL). Primarily a forward pocket, Rioli also spends time in the midfield, although injury and hamstring injuries have limited his ability to spend long periods in the midfield.
Born to Cyril Jr. and Kathy in 1989, Rioli comes from a bloodline of talented footballers. His father Cyril Jr. was a champion footballer in the Northern Territory and the brother of the late Richmond Norm Smith Medallist Maurice Rioli. Cyril Jr. played for Northern Territory Football League club St Mary's, where he won 12 premiership medallions and the 1995–96 Nichols Medal as the league's best and fairest player. His mother Kathy is the sister of Essendon two-time premiership player and 1993 Norm Smith Medallist Michael Long. Another former footballer, Dean Rioli, is his cousin. After the 2015 season his cousin Daniel was drafted to the Richmond Football Club.
He spent the first eight years of his life in the Tiwi Islands before moving with his family to Darwin in the Northern Territory, playing his younger years at St Mary's also.
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