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Dustin Andrew Fletcher (born 7 May 1975) is a former Australian rules footballer who played for the Essendon Football Club in the Australian Football League. He is widely acknowledged as one of the finest defenders in the league's history. He is also notable for his extreme career longevity, having played 400 games over 23 seasons. ==AFL career== Fletcher was recruited by the Essendon Football Club in the 1992 National Draft. He played his first senior game for the Bombers against Carlton in his senior year of high school at Penleigh and Essendon Grammar School. He was a key member of the 1993 premiership team in his first AFL season, a team which is often referred to as the "Baby Bombers". Fletcher also played in the 2000 premiership team, a year in which he also won the W.S. Crichton Medal as Essendon's best and fairest and was selected in the All-Australian team. With his father, Ken, Fletcher currently hold the record for the most VFL/AFL career games played by a father and son, with 664 games between them. He also holds the record of being the most watched VFL/AFL footballer of all time, with a cumulative attendance of 19,298,044 spectators at matches in which he has played from 1993 to present.〔http://afltables.com/afl/crowds/summary.html〕 Fletcher holds the outright Essendon games record, having overtaken the previous record of 378 games held by Simon Madden in Round 1, 2014. Playing in his 384th career game in Round 7, 2014, he moved into third on the all-time VFL/AFL games list, overtaking Robert Harvey. He became the second oldest player to play VFL/AFL at 39 years and 333 days, behind Vic Cumberland, in Round 1, 2015. Fletcher played his 400th game in Round 9, 2015, against Richmond, becoming the third player in VFL/AFL history to reach the milestone, after Michael Tuck and Kevin Bartlett. It would end up being his final game, as he was unable to recover from a groin injury sustained during the match. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Dustin Fletcher」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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