{"id":49039,"date":"2025-08-06T23:54:08","date_gmt":"2025-08-06T23:54:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/49039\/"},"modified":"2025-08-06T23:54:08","modified_gmt":"2025-08-06T23:54:08","slug":"boom-recruit-afl-games-record-holder-to-suit-up-in-legends-game-afl-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/49039\/","title":{"rendered":"Boom recruit: AFL games record holder to suit up in Legends Game – AFL News"},"content":{"rendered":"


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North Melbourne legend and AFL<\/a> games record holder Brent Harvey<\/a> has confirmed that he’ll be pulling on the Big V once again in the upcoming Legends Game.<\/p>\n

The return of the marquee clash after a six-year hiatus will mark the 30th anniversary of the passing of one of the game’s greats from prostate cancer – E.J. Whitten – a true legend of Australian football, whom the game was played in honour of for decades.<\/p>\n

Harvey played 432 games across 21 seasons for the Kangaroos, kicking 518 goals, whilst claiming five Syd Barker Medals, four All-Australians, a premiership medallion and an induction into the AFL<\/a> Hall of Fame (2022).<\/p>\n

‘Boomer’ also represented Victoria in the last official State of Origin clash in 1999, where he was awarded the E.J. Whitten Medal for best on ground for kicking five goals in a 54-point win over South Australia, as well as in the 2008 Hall of Fame Tribute Match, which celebrated 150 years of Australian rules football.<\/p>\n

Harvey retired at the end of 2016, but has continued playing local football, suiting up for North Heidelberg in the NFNL before making a switch to Trentham this year in the Maryborough Castlemaine District Football League.<\/p>\n

“I’m looking forward to it. Obviously, pulling on the Big V jumper when I was 21 years old was a pretty vivid memory in my career,” Harvey said on SEN Breakfast.<\/p>\n


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