Libba joins the Roosters
West Footscray Football Club is celebrating the biggest signing of the football off season with the announcement that 1990 Brownlow Medallist Tony Liberatore will be its senior coach in 2009.
Roosters President Robert McGhie - a former Footscray and Richmond player in the sixties and seventies - pursued ‘Libba" and finally got his man.
"This is great for West and for the competition to have someone of Tony’s credentials and football history ".
Liberatore played 283 games for the Bulldogs in a career spanning 1986 to 2002. He won the 1984 Morrish Medal, the 1986 &88 Gardiner Medals and the 1990 Brownlow.
After retiring in 2002, he joined Hawthorn - coaching the Box Hill Hawks - and then went to Carlton as an assistant to Denis Pagan. Last season he coached Sunbury in the Ballarat League.
West Footscray was promoted to the WRFL Division 1 last season after winning the 2007 Division 2 flag.
Liberatore is looking forward to the challenge.
"I know we are not playing AFL but I will be looking for discipline on the field and building a competitive footy team".
WRFL CEO John Batty welcomed Liberatore to the competition.
"It’s not everyday you get a Brownlow Medallist coaching a suburban footy club, it’s good for the entire league".
Last Modified on 09/06/2009 22:19