Brendan Fevola has dropped a brutal admission within the wake of former AFL participant Sam Fisher being despatched to jail.
Fisher was sentenced to 5 years and 4 months in jail on drug trafficking and drug possession expenses final week.
The court docket was informed the 13-year veteran of the sport was arrested in 2022 after a “suspicious parcel” in Western Australia was discovered to include $129,000 in money despatched by Perth man Julien Morvan, 35.
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A raid on Fisher’s residence unfolded in Could final yr which uncovered portions of medicine together with ketamine, LSD, methamphetamine, diazepam and steroids.
Fisher had been scheduled to face trial in early April, however pleaded responsible to all expenses every week earlier than the trial started.
Fevola opened up on the matter and stated the identical destiny might simply have fallen on his shoulders and acknowledged he might see it occurring to extra footballers.
The 204-game ahead stated he’d targeted solely on soccer throughout his enjoying days and wasted his cash alongside the best way.
“You may both go, it’s unhappy, his life has turned the other way up and he went down the mistaken path. However I kind of have a look at this like – Jesus, this might have occurred to me,” Fevola stated on The Fox’s Fifi, Fev & Nick present.
“I went down the mistaken path. Once you’re a footballer, it doesn’t final perpetually.
“I used to be very fortunate that I went on a present, I’m A Movie star, Get Me Out Of Right here, and I gained it. After which I’m very fortunate to have this at The Fox.
“But when I didn’t have that, I don’t know the place I’d be as a result of I didn’t set myself up. I wasted my cash; I didn’t have a level. I didn’t fear about college, I by no means studied like I’d actually be stuffed.
“I wouldn’t know what to do with my life, and I believe that’s the place Sam was. And I believe a whole lot of AFL gamers are in that state of affairs.
“I do know that the AFL now make gamers do stuff outdoors of footy to maintain them occupied. However I bear in mind again within the day (Fifi) Boxy, we’d have a day without work and we’d simply go to Crown (On line casino) and play poker.
“They’d be like actually they’d be six totally different (AFL) groups enjoying poker at Crown as a result of we’d at all times acquired the identical day without work.
“The entire Crown poker site was filled with AFL footy gamers, simply enjoying poker as a result of we had heaps of cash and we’d simply gamble. And then you definitely go residence, you play footy, and also you practice … and that’s all I knew. That’s what most blokes knew.
“The AFL is an enormous enterprise. I believe medication and playing might be the most important challenge.
“Sam Fisher did it himself. He’s copped it. He knew he did it, he owned as much as it. He’s going to serve his time.
“However only for the younger children which are rising up now and going by way of the system in any sport or native footy golf equipment, simply be sure to set your self up.”
Fevola’s fears come after he beforehand revealed he had wasted his total fortune with playing points that ruined his life and noticed him do a stint in rehab and declaring chapter in 2013.
His fall from grace is what finally led him to showing on the 2016 model of ‘I’m A Movie star Get Me Out Of Right here’.
