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CibbuanoCroad calls it quits
January 6th 2010 02:34
HAWTHORN premiership defender Trent Croad has announced his retirement from AFL football.
The 29-year-old, who didn't play a game last season due to a left foot injury sustained in the Hawks' grand final win over Geelong in 2008, said surgeons had advised him that he risked serious damage to his foot if he played on.
"I've basically been rehabilitated to a point where I've got no pain and just to basic level things," Croad said.
"But you want to prepare yourself for AFL level and it's that next step that's the dangerous bit."
"If I was to re-break or re-fracture the foot again, that's where serious things could happen in the sense that I would have no function in the foot again."
Taken with pick three in the 1997 national draft, Croad played 222 games - a tally which includes 38 for Fremantle between 2002-2003.
The 29-year-old, who didn't play a game last season due to a left foot injury sustained in the Hawks' grand final win over Geelong in 2008, said surgeons had advised him that he risked serious damage to his foot if he played on.
"I've basically been rehabilitated to a point where I've got no pain and just to basic level things," Croad said.
"But you want to prepare yourself for AFL level and it's that next step that's the dangerous bit."
"If I was to re-break or re-fracture the foot again, that's where serious things could happen in the sense that I would have no function in the foot again."
Taken with pick three in the 1997 national draft, Croad played 222 games - a tally which includes 38 for Fremantle between 2002-2003.
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