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Introduction
Michael Voss is a former professional Australian rules football player with the Brisbane Bears/Lions and current senior coach of the Carlton Football Club in the Australian Football League (AFL). He was a triple premiership captain with the Brisbane Lions.
Voss was also the first Brisbane player to win the Brownlow Medal, which is considered the game’s most prestigious individual award, won the Leigh Matthews Trophy for the league’s most valued player, and has been inducted into the Australian Football Hall of Fame. Additionally, he represented Australia in the 2006 International Rules Series. As a player, he was noted for his fearless play, inspirational leadership, and the ability to turn a game.
Early life
| Name | Michael Voss |
| Net Worth | $4 million |
| Occupation | Former player, Senior coach |
| Age | 47 years |
| Height | 1.83m |
Michael Voss was born on July 7, 1975 (age 47 years) in Traralgon, Victoria, Australia. He lived as a child in Orbost until the age of 11, when he moved with his family to Beenleigh in Logan, Queensland. Voss attended Trinity College during his high school years in Queensland. His younger brother Brett also played for the Brisbane Lions before transferring to St Kilda Football Club to enhance his opportunities to play senior football.
Voss’ football skills were excellent from an early age. He made his senior debut for Morningside in the QAFL at the age of 15 years. A year later he kicked 14 goals for Queensland in an under-17 representative match, before eventually winning the Hunter-Harrison Medal for the tournament. Voss grew up supporting the Carlton Football Club.
Playing career
Michael Voss debuted for the Brisbane Bears at 17 years and 11 days of age in 1992 against Fitzroy at Princes Park in Melbourne in Round 18, the youngest ever player to play a senior game for the club. Although highly skilled, he was also slight but worked to get the most out of his body. By 1996 he was one of the most accomplished players in the competition, and at the end of the season, he shared the Brownlow Medal, the game’s highest individual honour, with James Hird.
Voss and teammate Alastair Lynch were named as inaugural co-captains of the newly formed Brisbane Lions at the end of 1996, following the merger of the Fitzroy Football Club and the Brisbane Bears. In 2019 Kobe Howard described Voss as “one of the game’s greatest players” in Australian football history.
In 1998 Voss suffered a catastrophic injury while contesting a mark at Subiaco Oval in Perth in a match against Fremantle. He collided with the Dockers Shane Parker and broke his lower leg in half. The subsequent operation was at Sir Charles Gairdner Hospital and it was a year before he was fit and in training to play again. This injury, along with the destabilization caused by the merger of Fitzroy and the Bears was a key factor in the Brisbane Lions finishing 16th (last) with a 5-1-16 record.
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Michael Voss captained the Brisbane Lions in four consecutive AFL Grand Finals, yielding three premierships (2001–2003). His performance in the 2002 grand final against Collingwood was an outstanding example of courage, skill and leadership, only narrowly conceding the Norm Smith Medal to opposing captain and former Bears teammate Nathan Buckley.
Voss kicked a career-best seven goals in early 2004 against a struggling Adelaide at AAMI Stadium as coach Leigh Matthews looked to play him in the forward line during the latter part of his career. However, a heavy injury toll to the Lions meant that Voss continued his career in the midfield. In 2005, Voss suffered a badly cut calf before Round 2 while renovating his home.
He recovered to play his 250th game the following week, but the Lions suffered an embarrassing six-point loss to eventual premiers Sydney after they had led by 32 points at the final change. Prior to this, Voss had suffered from tendinitis of the knee but had been able to curtail the problem. The calf injury affected his performances, with the four games after the injury yielding a high possession count of only 16. Voss later improved and in Round 21 picked up 35 possessions against Port Adelaide.
Soon after the completion of the 2006 season, Michael Voss announced his retirement from his playing career after 289 games and 15 years at the Brisbane Bears and Lions with three premierships and a Brownlow Medal to his name. He was subsequently employed as a sports journalist by Channel 10 in Brisbane.
Voss said farewell in what turned out to be his last game, at the Gabba in Round 22 against St Kilda, gathering 34 possessions and two Brownlow Medal votes as a struggling Brisbane Lions team went down by 50 points to finals-bound St Kilda who won in Brisbane for the first time in a decade. Despite losing badly, the Lions received a long-standing ovation from a sold-out home crowd after the game for their premiership efforts and farewell to several other players.
Coaching career
When announcing his retirement at the end of the 2006 season, there was speculation that Michael Voss would soon become a senior coach or join Leigh Matthews in the Brisbane Lions coaching team. Voss instead joined the Channel 10 sports commentary team. Voss coached Australia’s AIS Under 17 squad to victory against the South African national Australian rules football team at North West Cricket Stadium in Potchefstroom, South Africa.
Michael Voss was often mentioned as a candidate to coach the Melbourne Demons after the resignation of Neale Daniher. He was also linked to various other coaching positions, most notably Carlton. Voss was seen by many to be the likely inaugural coach of the Gold Coast side, but instead signed a two-year deal with the West Coast Eagles as an assistant coach and formally pulled himself out of the Gold Coast bid.
When Leigh Matthews, senior coach of the Brisbane Lions, resigned at the end of the 2008 season, Eagles’ chief executive Trevor Nisbett gave Voss permission to talk with his former club. The Lions later announced Voss as their new senior coach until the end of 2011. Voss made his coaching debut in Brisbane’s defeat of the West Coast Eagles in Round 1, 2009.
In Voss’s first season as senior coach of the Brisbane Lions in the 2009 season, he guided the Brisbane Lions into their first finals campaign since 2004, including a comeback elimination final victory over Carlton after trailing by 30 points early in the fourth quarter. However, the Lions under Voss were eliminated in the semi-finals by the Western Bulldogs. In 2007, Voss was charged for his role in a melee with Simon Black, Fraser Gehrig and three other high-profile AFL players at a Melbourne nightclub. At the resulting trial, Voss agreed to enter a diversion program and therefore no conviction was recorded.
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His next two years were not as successful on the field. After the club won its first four matches to be sitting on top of the ladder early in the 2010 season, the Lions under Voss would only win three more games to finish 13th (out of 16) on the ladder. The 2011 Season brought in an even worse low with the Lions under Voss finishing 15th (out of 17 teams) in season 2011, its worst placing since 1998 when it won the wooden spoon. This continued in the 2012 season when the Lions under Voss finished 13th on the ladder. The Lions with Voss kept struggling in the 2013 season, where the Lions sat 12th on the ladder with eight wins and eleven losses after Round 19, 2013.
On 13 August 2013, Voss was told that he would not be receiving a contract extension with the Lions for 2014. Voss then opted not to coach out his contract which expired at the end of the 2013 season. Voss was then replaced by assistant coach Mark Harvey as caretaker senior coach of the Brisbane Lions for the remainder of the 2013 season. Justin Leppitsch was eventually appointed as the new senior coach of the Lions from 2014 onwards. Voss left the club having coached 109 games for the Lions, achieving 43 wins, 1 draw and 65 losses, for a winning percentage of 39.91%.
In October 2014, Voss joined the Port Adelaide Football Club as an assistant coach under senior coach Ken Hinkley in the position of midfield manager, replacing Phil Walsh who had joined the Adelaide Football Club. One measure of his success at Port is the number of their midfielders selected for the All-Australian team Robbie Gray (2014, 2017, 2018) Chad Wingard (2015), Travis Boak (2020), Charlie Dixon (2020) and Brownlow medalist Ollie Wines (both 2021). Voss left the Port Adelaide Football club at the end of the 2021 season.
Carlton Football Club senior coach
In September 2021, following seven years as an assistant with the Power, Michael Voss officially returned to the AFL’s senior coaching ranks after being appointed senior coach of the Carlton Football Club. Voss replaced David Teague as Carlton Football Club senior coach, after David Teague was sacked at the end of the 2021 season, due to an extensive review of the club’s football operations in the wake of a disappointing season with poor on-field results, where Carlton under Teague finished in thirteenth place on the ladder with eight wins and fourteen losses. The club then decided that they needed an experienced coach to become the new head coach. Carlton Football Club President Luke Sayers on the appointment of Voss as senior coach said in a statement “After a thorough and considered selection process, Voss’s credentials and vast experience in football made him the right person for the job,”.
In the 2022 season, Voss took a leave of absence for one game in Round 2, 2022, against the Western Bulldogs after he tested positive for COVID-19. Assistant coach Ashley Hansen filled in as caretaker interim senior coach in the absence of regular senior coach Voss, and Carlton won the game by a margin of twelve points under Hansen as stand-in senior coach for Voss. Voss resumed his role as senior coach in Round 3, 2022 against Hawthorn, where Carlton won by a point.
Wife
Is Michael Voss still married? Michael Voss is married to Donna Voss, they had their wedding in Australia. His wife is a private person and they have children together. However, Voss joined the Network Ten AFL commentary team in 2007 in a special comments role. He was appointed the role of sports anchor on 10 News First Queensland. In 2011, Voss was inducted into the Australian Football Hall of Fame. As of mid-2022, Michael Voss and his wife Donna Voss are still married and living a happy life with their children.
Michael Voss net worth
How much is Michael Voss worth? Michael Voss net worth is estimated at around $4 million. His main source of income is from his career as a former AFL player and head coach. Michael Voss’s salary per month with other career earnings is over $700,000 dollars annually. His successful career has earned him some luxurious lifestyles and some fancy car trips. He is one of the richest and most influential AFL Coaches in Australia. Michael Vossb stands at an appealing height of 1.83m and has a good body weight of 88kg which suits his personality.