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Australian footballer and political advisor

Australian rules footballer
Brian Buckley
Personal information
Full name Brian William Buckley
Date of birth (1935-03-29)29 March 1935
Place of birth Footscray, Victoria
Date of death 26 May 2013(2013-05-26) (aged 78)
Original team(s) Gisborne
Height 183 cm (6 ft 0 in)
Weight 80 kg (176 lb)
Playing career
Years Club Games (Goals)
1956–59 Footscray 37 (3)
Playing statistics correct to the end of 1959.
Sources: AFL Tables, AustralianFootball.com

Brian William Buckley (29 March 1935 – 26 May 2013) was an Australian rules footballer who played with Footscray in the Victorian Football League (VFL).

After football he became a teacher, journalist, a political press secretary for Phillip Lynch and then a political consultant. Married twice, including to former mayor of the City of Yarra, Jackie Fristacky, Buckley died in 2013 from cancer.

Notes

  1. Holmesby, Russell; Main, Jim (2014). The Encyclopedia of AFL Footballers: every AFL/VFL player since 1897 (10th ed.). Seaford, Victoria: BAS Publishing. p. 109. ISBN 978-1-921496-32-5.
  2. Buckley, Amanda (9 July 2013). "From journalism to politics to football, a man of many colours". The Sydney Morning Herald. Retrieved 31 October 2018.

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