Carlton Champion Retires
by Lisa Albergo reporting for AFANA from Chicago
They called him Adonis after the Greek god because of his physique. Sometimes he was just likened to a Greek god in general. Gods are impervious to harm and injury, but Anthony Koutoufides, despite his on-field feats which sometimes seemed to defy mere humans, is still mortal. His mortality finally caught up with him in the form of a degenerative hip. Although he was keen to see out the season, scans last week revealed the injury to be worse than originally thought. Thus, Kouta has been forced to bring down the curtain on a stellar 278 game career which began in 1992. Those 278 games for Carlton has him listed sixth on the list of games played in the navy blue. He joined the Blues as a young teenager, playing in Carlton's junior side at the age of 15. He worked his way up through the ranks to play in the Under-19s, played in Carlton's 1991 preseason side, and made his senior debut in 1992.
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They called him Adonis after the Greek god because of his physique. Sometimes he was just likened to a Greek god in general. Gods are impervious to harm and injury, but Anthony Koutoufides, despite his on-field feats which sometimes seemed to defy mere humans, is still mortal. His mortality finally caught up with him in the form of a degenerative hip. Although he was keen to see out the season, scans last week revealed the injury to be worse than originally thought. Thus, Kouta has been forced to bring down the curtain on a stellar 278 game career which began in 1992. Those 278 games for Carlton has him listed sixth on the list of games played in the navy blue. He joined the Blues as a young teenager, playing in Carlton's junior side at the age of 15. He worked his way up through the ranks to play in the Under-19s, played in Carlton's 1991 preseason side, and made his senior debut in 1992.
