Jason Traianidis is a former Australian rules football

Australian rules football

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er who played with St Kilda in the Australian Football League

Australian Football League

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 (AFL).

Originally from Shepparton, Traianidis was a member of the North Melbourne reserves 1995 premiership team. He had been on North Melbourne's supplementary list that season and was almost drafted by the club in the 1996 pre-season but they went for Peter Bell at the last minute.

Traianidis was instead signed by St Kilda and after taking part in their Ansett Cup premiership, played 13 AFL games in 1996. A half forward, he kicked two goals on debut and was goal-less in his second game despite scoring five behinds. He suffered a back injury in 1997 which kept him on the sidelines for much of the year but got to play in St Kilda's qualifying final win over the Brisbane Lions

Brisbane Lions

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. In 1999 he started the season brightly but missed the second half of the year as he needed a knee reconstruction. He was tried as a defender in 2000 and averaged 16 disposals a game. In the penultimate round of the 2001 season, Traianidis was reported for striking Brett Kirk

Brett Kirk

Brett Kirk is a former Australian rules football player of the Sydney Swans, and is known colloquially as "Kirky", "Captain Kirk", during the 2005 AFL Finals Series, "Captain Blood" and by teammates as "Hippy". Kirk is a hard working and onfield leader who has played in a premiership with the...

 and after receiving a one match ban announced his retirement.

He would return to Shepparton and continue to play country football until 2010. In his final season, playing for Shepparton East

Shepparton East Football Club

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 in the Picola & District Football League

Picola & District Football League

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, he kicked eight goals in the winning grand final team.