Peter Daicos

Peter Daicos's Biography

Collingwood 1990 Premiership Player & AFL Hall of Fame Member

Peter Daicos is considered to be one of Collingwood’s all-time greats, being named in the club’s Team of the Century, leading the club’s goalkicking for five seasons, winning the best and fairest twice and playing in the club’s drought breaking 1990 premiership.

Peter Daicos played his entire 250-game career with the Collingwood Football Club in the VFL/AFL. One of the greatest players in the history of the Australian Football League, Daicos is a member of the AFL Hall of Fame and was renowned for his consistent ability to kick freakish goals from seemingly impossible angles.

During his career, his league honours include a premiership and kicking the Goal of the Year. He also represented his home state of Victoria a total of five times.

Peter debuted with the Collingwood Football Club in 1979. He went on to play 250 games (for 549 goals) with the Magpies until his retirement in 1993 and won a premiership with them in 1990 opening the way by kickingCollingwood's first goal in that match. He is commonly known as the Macedonian Marvel because of his parents' place of origin in northern Greece.

In the 1990 season, Daicos scored 97 goals playing mostly from a forward pocket, a feat made all the more remarkable since he was considerably shorter than many full-forwards of the era, and was not playing in the traditional position of a spearhead full-forward. His skills in scoring from impossible angles, as well as the ability in getting rid of defenders, made pundits start naming him as ‘The Magician.’ In fact, one of his goals, drawing the 1990 Qualifying Final became the subject of a Toyota Memorable Moments advertisement first screened in 2005.

Since 2010 Daicos has commentated with the AFL Live radio team.

Nowadays, his name is used by journalists and AFL fans as an adjective to describe a difficult goal scored from the boundary in play; especially one that is along the ground (a 'Daicos goal').

Peter Daicos Achievements:

Collingwood Football Club 1979 - 1993

1990 Premiership Player

250 Games

549 Goals

Club Best and Fairest 1982 & 1988

Club Vice Captain 1990 & 1991

Collingwood FC Life Member

AFL Hall of Fame Member

Collingwood team of the Century (First 18)

Past Commentator Network Ten

Regular guest on "Hungry For Sport" radio station SEN 111

Collingwood champion Peter Daicos is available for corporate and private events. He is an experienced media speaker, Peter's insights into the world of both AFL football and business are compelling.

Peter has done it all from working with major corporations, to medium and small businesses, coteries and grassroots football clubs

Contact Helene Greenham directly to enquire about Peter Daicos for your next event – helene@platinumspeakers.com.au