{"id":453849,"date":"2026-02-02T15:53:42","date_gmt":"2026-02-02T15:53:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/453849\/"},"modified":"2026-02-02T15:53:42","modified_gmt":"2026-02-02T15:53:42","slug":"vale-bruno-zorzi","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/453849\/","title":{"rendered":"Vale Bruno Zorzi"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"article__summary\">\n                The Club regrets to advise of the passing of ex-player Bruno Zorzi last Friday, aged 88.\n            <\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Zorzi was recruited from Fitzroy U19s and played 18 senior VFL matches with Fitzroy between 1957-60 \u2013 alongside Lions Legend Kevin Murray. <\/p>\n<p>He was the 738th player to represent the Club in a senior VFL\/AFL match and wore the #28 guernsey.<\/p>\n<p>Following his playing days, Zorzi remained actively involved with the Club\u2019s Past Players &amp; Officials Association and up until last year could be found regularly cheering on Fitzroy\u2019s VAFA side at the Brunswick Street Oval.<\/p>\n<p>He passed away, aged 88, last Friday and will be laid to rest at a public service in Doncaster this Thursday 5 February. \u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The Club extends its deepest condolences to Zorzi\u2019s family and friends at this incredibly difficult time.<\/p>\n<p>Vale Bruno Zorzi<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Fitzroy Football Club<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Years: 1957-58, 1960<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Debut Number: 738<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Debut Game: Round 8, 1957 vs North Melbourne @ Brunswick St Oval<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Games: 18<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Goals: 0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Club regrets to advise of the passing of ex-player Bruno Zorzi last Friday, aged 88. Zorzi was&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":453850,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[560],"tags":[638,64,63,55,639,85,83],"class_list":{"0":"post-453849","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-afl","8":"tag-afl","9":"tag-au","10":"tag-australia","11":"tag-australian-football-league","12":"tag-australianfootballleague","13":"tag-sports","14":"tag-text"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/453849","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=453849"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/453849\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/453850"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=453849"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=453849"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=453849"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}