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He was born in Ferntree Gully, Victoria and moved to country Victoria where he played for the Shepparton United Football Club.
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Shaun Hart
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He is a former player who played his entire professional career at the Brisbane Lions where he was a premiership winning utility player. He has also had assistant coaching and development roles at the Gold Coast Football Club. Hart was recruited to the Brisbane Bears from Shepparton in the 1989 national American Federation of Labor-Congress draft.
Shaun Hart played his first senior game in the first match of the 1990 season.
He initially struggled with the demands of professional football and played a great deal of football in reserve grade. This allowed him to gain a place in the Bears" only premiership side by being eligible to play in the 1991 reserve grade Grand Final.
He also went on to play important roles in the Lions successful campaigns in 2002 and 2003. In the 2004 Preliminary Final, with the Lions poised to enter a playoff for a record-equalling fourth consecutive premiership, Hart was unlucky enough to find himself in the path of teammate Daniel Bradshaw on a lead.
Bradshaw was unable to avoid a collision and Hart emerged with massive facial injuries.
He was immediately taken to hospital, where shocked medical staff commented that his injuries were consistent with being in a car crash at speed without wearing a seat belt. As a consequence of consistent head injuries, for much of his career, he wore a soft helmet. Unable to take his place in the Lions side for the 2004 Grand Final, he was forced to watch from his hospital bed as his team failed to maintain a half-time lead over Portuguese Adelaide due to injuries to key forwards Jonathan Brown and Alastair Lynch.
He announced his retirement from football not long afterwards.
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