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UPDATE: Carlton’s Chris Judd has officially announced his retirement from the AFL, effective immediately, at a press conference earlier today.
Judd’s retirement comes following an ACL rupture he suffered on Saturday at the MCG in Carlton’s 9-point loss to the Adelaide Crows.
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Judd left the ground in the first quarter after landing awkwardly, having taken a contested mark over Adelaide’s Patrick Dangerfield.
Asked after the incident by Channel Seven if he was worried that he might have played his last AFL game, Judd gave a simple answer: “Yep.”
Judd faces a likely 12-month stint on the sidelines as he recovers from the injury before he would be fit to return to the field.
Judd said that once he learned he had done his ACL, he never considered himself a chance of playing on.
Judd’s career has spanned 134 games for West Coast and 145 for Carlton, for a total of 279 AFL games since being selected by the Eagles at pick no. 3 in the 2001 AFL draft.
Judd won his first Brownlow Medal in 2004, just three years into his AFL career, and was the first West Coast player in the club’s history to win the league’s highest honour.
He won the Norm Smith medal in a losing side in the 2005 Grand Final before captaining the Eagles to their third and most recent AFL premiership in 2006.
Injuries hampered Judd’s 2007 season and, shortly after the Eagles were eliminated from finals, he announced his decision to leave the club and seek a trade to Victoria.
A deal was eventually struck that saw Judd move to Carlton in exchange for young key forward Josh J Kennedy and a number of high draft picks.
Judd was named the Carlton captain before even playing a game for the club, and held that role for five years before voluntarily giving it up at the end of the 2012 season.
He won a second Brownlow Medal in 2010, becoming only the fourth player in VFL/AFL history to win a Brownlow at multiple clubs.
At what looks like the end of his career, he has accrued a huge list of accolades and achievements – six All-Australian guernseys, five Best and Fairest awards (two at West Coast, three at Carlton), 2 AFLPA MVP awards, and 3 Ross Glendinning Medals.
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