1. Daniel Alan Kerr was born on 16 May 1983 and is a former Australian rules footballer who played for the West Coast Eagles in the Australian Football League.
49 Facts About Daniel Kerr
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Daniel Kerr played 220 games for the club between 2001 and 2013, as a hard-running inside midfielder.
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Daniel Kerr finished runner-up in the 2001 AFL Rising Star, and in 2003, aged 20, won the Goal of the Year award.
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Daniel Kerr placed in the top three of the Brownlow Medal in three consecutive seasons from 2005 to 2007, notably finishing runner-up to teammate Ben Cousins in 2005 by a single vote.
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Daniel Kerr played in a premiership in 2006 after a grand final loss the previous year, and was named in the 2007 All-Australian team.
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Daniel Kerr suffered from injuries later in his career, eventually retiring from AFL football at the end of the 2013 season.
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Daniel Kerr has been convicted of a number of criminal offences both during and after his football career, culminating in his imprisonment for arson in 2021.
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Daniel Kerr was born in Perth, Western Australia, to Roxanne and Roger Daniel Kerr.
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Daniel Kerr's mother was born in Australia, while his father was born to an Anglo-Indian family in Calcutta.
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Daniel Kerr attended Aquinas College, Perth, where he met future teammate Quinten Lynch and several other future AFL players.
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Daniel Kerr was in the East Fremantle Football Club's zone as a teenager, although he did not play at senior WAFL level before being drafted.
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Daniel Kerr later played two games for East Fremantle in 2011 and three more in 2013.
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Daniel Kerr was selected with the number 18 pick in the 2000 AFL Draft.
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Daniel Kerr has retrospectively been cited by multiple sources as among the top five players to emerge from the draft.
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Daniel Kerr went on to make his senior debut for West Coast against Geelong in round 1 of the 2001 AFL season and played 19 games in total in his debut season.
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Daniel Kerr was the recipient of the AFL Players Association award for best first-year player.
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Daniel Kerr won Goal of the Year in 2003, aged 20, for a five-bounce running goal in the Western Derby against Fremantle.
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Daniel Kerr received a handpass at left half-back before weaving his way through several opponents and converting from 45 metres.
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Daniel Kerr was considered one of the leading members of the West Coast Eagles midfield that led the team to back-to-back grand finals in 2005 and 2006, together with Ben Cousins and Chris Judd.
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In 2005, Daniel Kerr led the Brownlow Medal count towards the later rounds and ultimately finished runner-up to Cousins.
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Daniel Kerr was a part of the Eagles' 2006 premiership side and still managed to receive 20 disposals during the game, despite playing with detached ligaments in his foot.
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Daniel Kerr received three votes in the Norm Smith Medal for the best player in the ground.
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Daniel Kerr did win the 2007 Geoff Christian Medal as the best player in Western Australia and was named in the 2007 All-Australian team.
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In 2010, Daniel Kerr suffered a season-ending hamstring injury in round four against Essendon.
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Daniel Kerr was cited as a major influence in West Coast's resurgence in 2011, recording career-high averages for contested possessions, clearances and inside-50s despite limited game-time due to injuries.
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Daniel Kerr was among the best on ground in the team's narrow three-point win in the semi-final against Carlton, the club's first finals win since the 2006 grand final.
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Daniel Kerr signed a further two-year contract with West Coast mid-way through the 2012 AFL season, shortly before playing his 200th AFL game.
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In May 2009, Daniel Kerr became engaged to his girlfriend of nearly two years, Natasha Pozo.
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In September 2002, Daniel Kerr was involved in a brawl with teammate Ben Cousins at a Perth nightclub during the club's end of season celebrations.
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Daniel Kerr is understood to have been at a farewell party for his sister's friend in Attadale before trouble erupted shortly after midnight.
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Daniel Kerr was charged with two counts of assault occasioning bodily harm.
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Daniel Kerr pleaded guilty to assault occasioning bodily harm and was fined $2000 over the attack.
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Daniel Kerr's father was fined after being found guilty of assault.
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In February 2007, Daniel Kerr was arrested and charged with disorderly conduct after an altercation with a taxi driver.
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Daniel Kerr was later arrested again while at a training session, and further charged with assault occasioning bodily harm and willful damage.
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Police prosecutor Gary Flynn told the court Daniel Kerr saw the taxi and jumped screaming and shouting onto the boot.
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Daniel Kerr was given the blank prescription by a person at a party and went to a 24-hour chemist to buy 50 valium tablets.
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Daniel Kerr was fined $5,000 by the club and was required to complete community service throughout the football season.
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In September 2007, Daniel Kerr was alleged to have abused staff at a Melbourne hotel on the day of the AFLPA awards.
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Daniel Kerr's club were informed of the incident, and when they came to check on Kerr at 2pm, he was still in bed.
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The West Coast Eagles forced Daniel Kerr to start seeing a clinical psychologist at the beginning of 2008, in an attempt to combat his anger management issues and alcoholism.
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In November 2014, Daniel Kerr was arrested and charged with endangering the lives of two people after he allegedly started a small fire at a house in Glendalough.
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Daniel Kerr spent five nights at Hakea Prison before being released on bail when his parents paid the $5000 surety.
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On 17 February 2021 Daniel Kerr was charged with criminal damage by fire after a fire damaged the rear of his parents' Kardinya house.
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Daniel Kerr denied responsibility for the fire, but as he was already on bail for domestic violence charges, his bail was revoked.
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In May 2023, Daniel Kerr was sentenced to two years' jail for the fire, backdated to his arrest in 2021.
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Daniel Kerr was charged with aggravated stalking and breaching a violence restraining order on 19 August 2020.
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In June 2024, Daniel Kerr pleaded guilty to one count of "engaging in persistent family violence", in exchange for the withdrawal of a series of other domestic violence charges.
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Daniel Kerr was declared to be a "serial family violence offender" but was not subjected to electronic monitoring.