Dean Galea

Dean Galea (born 11 January 1985) is an Australian Football player. He won the Jim 'Frosty' Miller Medal as the leading goal-kicker in the Victorian Football League in 2012 and 2013, kicking 65 and 55 goals in the respective home and away season.

Galea in his first year of season football played for Spotswood in the WRFL, he won the Premier division goalkicking award with 82 goals in 2004.

Galea then moved to play with Williamstown Football Club for 2005 and 2006.[1]

In 2007 he spent a season with West Adelaide in the SANFL where he kicked 30 goals in 15 senior games.[2]

He was back at Williamstown in 2008 but was frustrated by the clubs alignment because he would be dropped when a listed AFL player returned from injury. He was delisted by Williamstown at the end of 2009 and crossed over to the Port Melbourne Football Club in 2010. He kicked 71 goals in the 2011 season to finish second in the Frosty Miller medal to teammate Patrick Rose.[3] He kicked six goals in the 2011 VFL Grand Final when Port defeated his old side Williamstown.[4] Galea was also selected in the 2012 VFL team of the year in the position of full-forward.[5] Galea played 74 games for Port Melbourne kicking 253 goals.

Galea left the VFL for Avondale Heights in the Essendon District Football League. He also won the Premier Division Leading Goal Kicker Award in 2014. In 2014 and 2015 he has represented the EDFL Senior Team where in the 2015 interleague game he kicked an impressive 5 goals.[5][6]

In 2016 he joined Keilor and continued to top the EDFL goalkicking table kicking 101 goals in 2016 and 81 goals in 2017.[7][8]

References
  1. Amy, Paul (16 May 2012). "Galea seals stunner for Port Melbourne". Herald Sun. News Limited. Retrieved 23 September 2012.
  2. http://websites.sportstg.com/club_info.cgi?client=1-118-10459-0-0&sID=136506&&news_task=DETAIL&articleID=9182523
  3. Diamond, Brent (16 June 2012). "Bombers' rising options". The Age. Fairfax Media. Retrieved 23 September 2012.
  4. http://www.heraldsun.com.au/leader/localfooty/galea-makes-right-move/news-story/2ed6bb28a3ebf4cdedcc41396c6b6242?sv=ffc76c8b18e4d2bfeffbc1ad2afc1baf
  5. Amy, Paul (4 September 2012). "Werribee's Ben Ross wins VFL's JJ Liston Trophy". Herald Sun. News Limited. Retrieved 23 September 2012.
  6. "Headcount costs Lourey medal". Sportingpulse. 27 August 2013. Retrieved 27 August 2013.
  7. http://www.heraldsun.com.au/leader/localfooty/edfl/former-vfl-star-dean-galea-switches-from-avondale-heights-to-keilor-in-edfl/news-story/e0e27bb4c4ddcc1711c3fe0914043bf0
  8. http://essendondfl.com.au/big-browne-edges-out-galea-for-blues-bf/
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