1. Timothy Ginever was born on 13 April 1966 and is a former Australian rules footballer in the South Australian National Football League, playing for Port Adelaide.
11 Facts About Tim Ginever
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Tim Ginever is the seventh of 10 children and says that Australian Football helped his English father and South American mother transition into Australian life.
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Tim Ginever was much more than just an average league player; he was arguably one of the most important SANFL footballers of the 1980s and 1990s, and provided conclusively persuasive evidence that success in football is at least as much attributable to mental as to physical capabilities.
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When Tim Ginever entered the playing arena he became so consumed by white line fever as to metamorphose, almost literally, into a completely different person from the happy-go-lucky larrikin who confronted the TV cameras during post-match interviews.
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Tim Ginever got better with age and as captain, winning his club's best and fairest award in 1994 and 1997.
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Tim Ginever was appointed assistant coach of the Port Adelaide Magpies in 2005 under the legendary John Cahill, who was brought back as coach for one year while Tim Ginever served his apprenticeship.
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Tim Ginever then took over as coach in 2006 for four seasons but was not able to reproduce the same success he had as a player.
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On 14 August 2009, Tim Ginever announced his retirement from coaching at the end of the 2009 SANFL minor round.
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Tim Ginever himself was quoted "I only gave up Coaching due to popular demand".
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Tim Ginever was actively involved in the OnePAFC campaign designed to garner support for the reunification of the Port Adelaide Football Club and the Port Adelaide Magpies Football Club.
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In 2015, Tim Ginever was inducted into the South Australian Football Hall of Fame.