Andrew McGovern is a former Australian rules football

Australian rules football

Australian rules football, officially known as Australian football, also called football, Aussie rules or footy is a sport played between two teams of 22 players on either...

er who played for the Sydney Swans

Sydney Swans

The Sydney Swans Football Club is an Australian rules football club which plays in the Australian Football League . The club is based in Sydney, New South Wales. The club, founded in 1874, was known as the South Melbourne Football Club until it relocated to Sydney in 1982 to become the Sydney...

 and Fremantle

Fremantle Football Club

The Fremantle Football Club, nicknamed The Dockers, is an Australian rules football team which plays in the Australian Football League . The club is based in the port city of Fremantle at the mouth of the Swan River in Western Australia...

 in the Australian Football League

Australian Football League

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.

He was originally drafted by the Swans from Claremont

Claremont Football Club

The Claremont Football Club, nicknamed the Tigers, is an Australian rules football club in the West Australian Football League . Its official colours are navy blue and gold....

 in the West Australian Football League

West Australian Football League

The West Australian Football League is an Australian rules football league based in Perth, Western Australia. The WAFL is the second-most popular in the state, behind the nation-wide Australian Football League...

 with selection 4 in the 1991 AFL Draft

1991 AFL Draft

- History :When the competition was known as the Victorian Football League , the league introduced the first incarnation of a draft system in 1981, where teams had two selections each of interstate players determined by reverse finishing position order...

 but only played two seasons with Sydney for 20 games. At the end of the 1993 season he was delisted and returned to Western Australia and played for Claremont in 1994. During this season he captained the West Australian state side in their victorious interstate game

Interstate matches in Australian rules football

Australian rules football matches between teams representing Australian colonies/states and territories have been held since 1879. For most of the 20th century, the absence of a national club competition and international matches meant that football games between state representative teams were...

 against South Australia.http://www.wafootball.com.au/resources/doc_download/107-state-games-1951-2006 The following season he followed Claremont coach Gerard Neesham

Gerard Neesham

Gerard Neesham is a former Australian rules footballer in the WAFL and VFL as well as coach in the WAFL and AFL. Today he is chief executive of the Clontarf Foundation.-Playing career:...

 to the newly formed Fremantle Football Club and played 17 games, mainly as a defender. He would play a total of 63 games for Fremantle in 4 seasons before retiring at the end of the 1999 season after playing the entire 1999 season with Claremont.

After retiring from professional football McGovern has been involved with the Clontarf Football Academy.http://www.dhw.wa.gov.au/Files/abor_hicnews04.pdf

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