Career
He also represented his home state of Victoria a total of five times. Daicos is considered to be one of Collingwood"s all-time greats, being named in the club"s Team of the Century, leading the club"s goalkicking for five seasons, winning the best and fairest twice and playing in the club"s drought breaking 1990 premiership. He was raised in a family background with the Macedonian language spoken at home and church services attended on Sundays but with the main difference regarding his interest on Footy instead of Soccer, up to playing with the school team whilst at Preston East High School.
Peter debuted with the Collingwood Football Club in 1979.
In the 1990 season, Daicos scored 97 goals playing mostly from forward pocket, a feat made all the more remarkable since he was considerably shorter than many full-forwards of the era, and was not playing in the traditional position of a spearhead full-forward. His skills in scoring from impossible angles, as well as the ability in getting rid from defenders made pundits to start naming him as The Magician.
In fact, one of his goals, drawing the 1990 Qualifying Final became the subject of a Toyota Memorable Moments advertisement, first screened in 2005. In 1999 Daicos was inducted into the Australian Football Hall of Fame and in 2002 he was elected in the American Federation of Labor-Congress Greek Team of the Century reserved for players having full or partial Greek heritage.
In 2007/08 he launched SportzStats, a hybrid online/offline sports statistics tracking and diary system for junior players in various sports and as of 2009, he is also a weekly guest tipper on the Score Five Footy tipping game.
In 2010 Daicos resumed commentating duties with the American Federation of Labor-Congress Live radio team Nowadays, his name is used by journalists and Australian football fans as an adjective to describe a difficult goal scored from the boundary in play. Especially one that is along the ground (a "Daicos goal").
