Orazio Fantasia

Orazio Fantasia
Personal information
Full name	Orazio Fantasia
Date of birth	(1995-09-14) 14 September 1995
Original team(s)	Norwood (SANFL)
Draft	No. 55, 2013 national draft
Height / weight	177 cm / 72 kg
Position(s)	Forward / Midfielder
Club information
Current club	Essendon
Number	13
Playing career¹
Years	Club	Games (Goals)
2014–	Essendon	27 (31)
¹ Playing statistics correct to the end of 2016.
Career highlights
2× AFL Rising Star nominee: 2015, 2016 SANFL premiership player: 2013

Orazio Fantasia (born 14 September 1995) is a professional Australian rules footballer playing for the Essendon Football Club in the Australian Football League (AFL). He was recruited by the Essendon Football Club with the 55th overall selection in the 2013 national draft.

AFL career

Fantasia graduated from Norwood Morialta High School in 2013.^[1] He made his senior debut for Norwood in the South Australian National Football League (SANFL). In only his fourth game he was a member of their 2013 SANFL premiership side.^[1]

He made his debut against Richmond in round 20, 2014^[2] and was dropped for the following round but regained his spot in round 22 against the Gold Coast, replacing Dyson Heppell who missed the game due to a broken hand. In the final round of the season he was rewarded with a nomination for the 2015 AFL Rising Star where he recorded 27 disposals and five marks in the Bombers' three-point victory over Collingwood.^[3]

Fantasia received a second nomination for the Rising Star after his three goals, eleven disposals, seven contested possessions, and seven tackles in round 17, 2016.^[4]

Statistics

Statistics are correct to the end of the 2016 season

Legend
G	Goals	B	Behinds	K	Kicks	H	Handballs	D	Disposals	M	Marks	T	Tackles

Season	Team	#	Games	G	B	K	H	D	M	T	G	B	K	H	D	M	T
Season	Team	#	Totals								Averages (per game)
2014	Essendon	46	3	0	2	9	17	26	8	1	0.0	0.7	3.0	5.7	8.7	2.7	0.3
2015	Essendon	46	5	2	0	41	40	81	16	18	0.4	0.0	8.2	8.0	16.2	3.2	3.6
2016	Essendon	13	19	29	25	146	136	282	75	72	1.5	1.3	7.7	7.2	14.8	4.0	3.8
Career			27	31	27	196	193	389	99	91	1.1	1.0	7.3	7.1	14.4	3.7	3.4

References

1 2 Morgan, Kym (20 November 2013). "Orazio Fantasia's fantasy season about to get even better with AFL draft". The Advertiser.
↑ http://www.essendonfc.com.au/news/2014-08-07/fantasia-set-to-debut
↑ Twomey, Callum (7 September 2015). "Bomber Fantasia wins Rising Star nod". AFL.com.au. Bigpond. Retrieved 18 July 2016.
↑ Landsberger, Sam (18 July 2016). "Orazio Fantasia wins rare second Rising Star nomination as he looks forward to Essendon's bright future". Herald Sun. News Corp Australia. Retrieved 18 July 2016.

External links

Orazio Fantasia's profile on the official website of the Essendon Football Club
Orazio Fantasia's statistics from AFL Tables

Essendon Football Club – current squad

1 McGrath
2 Bellchambers
3 Parish
4 Watson
5 Stanton
6 Daniher
7 Z. Merrett
8 Gleeson
9 Goddard (c)
10 Francis
11 Zaharakis
12 Baguley (vc)
13 Fantasia
14 Ridley
15 Green
16 Begley
17 Stewart
18 Hurley
19 Mutch
20 J. Merrett
21 Heppell
22 Leuenberger
23 Myers
24 Bird
25 Morgan
26 Hooker
27 Redman
28 Brown
29 Ambrose
30 Langford
32 Colyer
33 Laverde
34 Long*
35 Eades*
36 Hartley
37 Clarke
38 Draper*
39 Hocking
40 Howlett
41 McNiece
43 McDonald-Tipungwuti
44 McKernan*
45 McKenna
47 Kelly
49 Dea

Coach: Worsfold

* denotes rookie listed players

2015 AFL Rising Star nominees

Rd 1: McIntosh Rd 2: Honeychurch Rd 3: Heeney Rd 4: Cripps Rd 5: Saad Rd 6: Gregson Rd 7: Hartung Rd 8: McCarthy Rd 9: Hogan Rd 10: Brayshaw Rd 11: Broomhead Rd 12: Boyd Rd 13: Cameron Rd 14: Lonie Rd 15: Sheed Rd 16: Miller Rd 17: Lever Rd 18: Andrews Rd 19: Thurlow Rd 20: De Goey Rd 21: Lang Rd 22: Lennon Rd 23: Fantasia

Italics denote winner

2016 AFL Rising Star nominees

Rd 1: Oliver Rd 2: Parish Rd 3: Weitering Rd 4: Daniel Rd 5: Papley Rd 6: Acres Rd 7: Harmes Rd 8: Hopper Rd 9: Petracca Rd 10: Byrne-Jones Rd 11: Blakely Rd 12: Weller Rd 13: Sicily Rd 14: Gresham Rd 15: Wright Rd 16: Mills Rd 17: Fantasia Rd 18: Clarke Rd 19: Moore Rd 20: Dunkley Rd 21: McDonald Rd 22: Rioli Rd 23: Barrass

Italics denote winner

2013 AFL national draft

First round	1. Tom Boyd 2. Josh Kelly 3. Jack Billings 4. Marcus Bontempelli 5. Kade Kolodjashnij 6. Matthew Scharenberg 7. James Aish 8. Luke McDonald (F/S) 9. Christian Salem 10. Nathan Freeman 11. Dom Sheed 12. Ben Lennon 13. Patrick Cripps 14. Cam McCarthy 15. Zak Jones 16. Darcy Lang 17. Michael Apeness 18. Luke Dunstan 19. Blake Acres 20. Jack Leslie

Second round	21. Jarman Impey 22. Darcy Gardiner 23. Matt Crouch 24. Billy Hartung 25. Daniel McStay 26. Zach Merrett 27. Sean Lemmens 28. Lewis Taylor 29. Rory Lobb 30. Trent Dumont 31. Malcolm Karpany 32. George Hewett 33. Tom Cutler 34. Nick Robertson 35. Toby Nankervis 36. Jarrad Jansen 37. Alex Pearce 38. Dayle Garlett

Third round	39. Cameron Giles 40. Jay Kennedy-Harris 41. Jake Kolodjashnij 42. Matt Fuller 43. Tom Barrass 44. Aliir Aliir 45. Mitchell Harvey 46. Riley Knight 47. Ben Brown 49. Dylan Main 50. Nathan Gordon 51. Nick Holman 52. Darcy Byrne-Jones 54. Josh Walker (RP) 55. Orazio Fantasia 56. James Sicily

Fourth round	57. Jayden Hunt 58. Brady Grey 59. Jonathon Ceglar (RP) 60. Mitch Honeychurch 61. Jamie Bennell (RP) 62. Jonathan Freeman (Academy selection) 63. George Burbury (RP) 64. Lauchlan Dalgleish (RP) 65. Tom Langdon 66. Sam Lloyd 68. Karl Amon 70. Matt Taberner (RP) 71. Will Langford (RP)

Fifth round	74. Jeremy McGovern (RP) 75. Justin Clarke (RP) 76. Kyle Hartigan (RP) 77. Jonathon Marsh 80. Brandon Jack (RP)

Sixth round	82. Mitch Clisby (RP) 83. Tom Curren (RP) 84. Brett Goodes (RP) 85. Simon Tunbridge (RP) 86. Rory Laird (RP) 87. Sam Dwyer (RP) 89. Ed Curnow (RP) 90. Dane Rampe (RP)

Seventh round	92. Adam Oxley (RP) 93. Ricky Petterd (RP) 94. Tom Bell (RP)

Eighth round	95. Zac Williams (RP)

Ninth round	97. Jake Barrett (NSW Zone)

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