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About Steven Alessio
- Steven Alessio (born 8 November 1971), is a former Australian rules footballer with the Essendon Football Club.
- He played 184 games for Essendon between 1992 and 2003.
- Of Italian descent and named in the VFL/AFL Italian Team of the Century in 2007.
- Alessio was named as the starting ruckman for Essendon's 'Best of the AFL era' (post-1990) team, named in 2015.He was reportedly recruited after walking into the clubhouse and asking for a trial, instead of being selected through the player draft.
- He was given the number 27 guernsey (which had been made famous by Essendon's champion ruckman Simon Madden and has been given to ruckmen ever since).
- He played in their 2000 premiership team.
- At the end of 2002, Alessio was delisted and then re-drafted by Essendon, and accepted only match fees during his final season in 2003.
- Alessio retired at the end of the 2003 season after 184 games.
- After retiring from football he has worked for the Essendon Football Club in a variety of roles, including football operations manager, ruck coach and corporate relationships manager.
- Alessio is the uncle of Carlton's 2010 first round draftee, Matthew Watson.
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