Matthew Kreuzer

Career

He was selected with the first pick overall in the 2007 American Federation of Labor-Congress National Draft. Kreuzer played for Street Mary"s Greensborough Junior Football Club and the Bundoora Football Club in Melbourne"s north as a junior, before moving to the Northern Knights to play under-18s football in the TAC Cup in 2006 and 2007. Kreuzer established himself as both the team"s Number.

1 ruckman and as a key forward during that time, scoring 51 goals in his 33 games with the Knights.

Achievements

• In 2007, he won the Morrish Medal and the Knights" best and fairest, and he was selected in the Victorian Metropolitan and All-Australian under-18s teams, and in the TAC Cup Teams of the Year in both 2006 and 2007.