Peter Bell (Australian footballer born 1976)
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| Full name | Peter Francis Bell | ||
| Date of birth | 1 March 1976 | ||
| Place of birth | South Korea | ||
| Original team(s) | South Fremantle Football Club | ||
| Height | 175 cm (5 ft 9 in) | ||
| Weight | 81 kg (179 lb) | ||
| Playing career1 | |||
| Years | Club | Games (Goals) | |
| 1995 | Fremantle | 2 (2) | |
| 1996 – 2000 | North Melbourne | 123 (120) | |
| 2001 – 2008 | Fremantle | 161 (128) | |
| Total | 286 (250) | ||
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| Years | Team | Games (Goals) | |
| Western Australia | ? (?) | ||
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1 Playing statistics correct to the end of 2008.
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| Sources: AFL Tables, AustralianFootball.com | |||
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Peter Francis Bell (born 1 March 1976) is a former Australian rules footballer for the Fremantle Football Club and the North Melbourne Football Club. He played as a rover (or follower). A former captain of the Fremantle Football Club, Bell was twice named as a member of the All-Australian Team. He was an acclaimed ball-winner and had more than 30 possessions in a game on 39 occasions in his career.
Bell was born in Cheju Island, South Korea, the son of a Korean mother and an American father. In 1979 he was adopted by an Australian couple. Bell spent his formative years in Kojonup, Western Australia. He was educated at Aquinas College, Perth and the University of Western Australia, where he obtained a Bachelor of Laws.
In late 1994, Bell, who was at that time playing with the South Fremantle Football Club in the West Australian Football League, became one of the first two players signed by Fremantle, which made its debut in the Australian Football League the following year. He won the best and fairest award at South Fremantle in 1994.
Despite kicking two goals with his first two kicks in AFL football, Bell failed to make an impression on Dockers' coach Gerard Neesham, who regarded him as too slow a runner to be a successful AFL player. Bell was selected for only two games in 1995.
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