John Emin 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 Essendon

Essendon Football Club

The Essendon Football Club, nicknamed The Bombers, is an Australian rules football club which plays in the Australian Football League...

 in the Victorian Football League

Australian Football League

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 (VFL).

Emin's Essendon career was brief, consisting of two games late in the 1973 VFL season

1973 VFL season

Results and statistics for the Victorian Football League season of 1973.-Premiership season:In 1973, the VFL competition consisted of twelve teams of 18 on-the-field players each, plus two substitute players, known as the 19th man and the 20th man...

 and an Elimination Final loss to St Kilda, where he kicked his only career goal. He returned to Hobart

Hobart Football Club

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 in 1974 as captain and won their 'best and fairest' that year as well as finishing runner-up in the William Leitch Medal

William Leitch Medal

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. A ruckman, Emin represented Tasmania in the 1975 Knockout Carnival

1975 Knockout Carnival

The 1975 Knockout Carnival was the 19th Australian National Football Carnival, an Australian rules football interstate competition .The carnival was due to take place in Melbourne but as it would have interrupted the 1975 VFL season the organisers made a shortened version. Just three games were to...

.

He crossed to Burnie in 1976 where he would play two seasons and later captain-coach in 1986. In between he had stints as captain-coach of Wynyard

Wynyard Football Club

The Wynyard Football Club is an Australian rules football club based in Wynyard, Tasmania.-Club history:The Wynyard Football Club was believed to be formed in 1885 as Table Cape and adopted the name of Wynyard in 1890....

, a club he steered to a NWFU

North West Football Union

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premiership in 1979, before captain-coaching Eastlake in Canberra.

Emin currently resides in Hobart where he is employed as a Parking manager for the Hobart City Council.