Kevin Neale

**Kevin Neale** (18 ga Yulin 1945 - 16 ga Satumba 2023) ya kasance Dan wasan kwallon kafa na Australiya wanda ya buga wa St Kilda a Gasar kwallon kafa ta Victoria (VFL). Daga baya a cikin aikinsa, ya kasance mai horar da 'yan wasa ko kyaftin din ko kuma mai horar na kungiyoyi da yawa a Babban Birnin Australia, kafin ya zama kocin cikakken lokaci.

## St Kilda
An haifi Kevin Neale a ranar 18 ga Yulin 1945. An dauke shi daga kungiyar Hampden Football League (HFL) ta Kudu Warrnambool,  inda ya taka leda a manyan wasanni bakwai a jere. An ba shi lakabi da "Cowboy". Asalin laƙabi ba shi da tabbas; mai yiwuwa ne ga ƙafafunsa da ƙafafunsa, amma kocin Alan Jeans ya taɓa cewa ya yi wasa kamar cowboy.

St Kilda ne ya dauka a matsayin dan shekara goma sha tara, ,  ruckman,  Neale ya buga wasan sa na farko ga St Kilda da Arewacin Melbourne a ranar 22 ga Mayu 1965 (zagaye na 6), a matsayin dan wasan baya / motoci.  Da farko ya taka leda a baya (a matsayin canji na farko, yana hutawa a cikin aljihun baya), amma an tura shi zuwa gaba a shekarar 1966. An zaba shi a matsayin mai ba da gudummawa a cikin St Kilda's "Team of the Century" a watan Mayu na shekara ta 2001. Ya zira kwallaye biyar a St Kilda ta 1966 Grand Final nasara a kan Collingwood, kuma ya rike rikodin kulob din na wasanni 16 na karshe, har sai Robert Harvey ya doke shi. Neale an san shi da mummunan rauni a kan Peter Hudson a wasan karshe na VFL na 1971. Hudson mai rauni ya kori mutumin a kan alama, ya rasa damar da ya samu na doke rikodin Bob Pratt na kwallaye 150 a cikin kakar wasa daya. Saints sun ci gaba da rasa wasan. Duk da haka, Neale ya lashe lambar yabo mafi kyau da mafi kyau a kulob din a shekarar 1973.

Neale ya buga wa Victoria wasa a wasan da aka yi da Tasmania a Hobart, a ranar Asabar, 16 ga Yuni 1967. An zaba shi a gaba, [1] kuma ya zira kwallaye hudu a wasan (an motsa shi daga gaba a rabi na biyu saboda dan wasan tsakiya na Victoria Peter McKenna bai zira kwallaya ba a rabi na farko na wasan).

## Babban Birnin Australiya
Zuwa ƙarshen aikinsa a St Kilda, an ba da tayin da yawa ga Neale don barin St Kilda kuma ya ɗauki matsayin kocin. A farkon shekara ta 1975, an ba shi matsayin mai horar da 'yan wasa a Turvey Park a Kudancin Yammacin League na tsawon shekaru uku a $ 25,000 (daidai da $ 199,530 a 2022) a kowace shekara. St Kilda ya yi magana da shi daga karɓar tayin mai fa'ida; duk da haka, zuwa ƙarshen kakar 1975, Kungiyar kwallon kafa ta Albury a cikin Ovens & Murray ta ba shi kwangilar shekaru uku wanda ya kai $ 35,000 (daidai da $ 279,342 a 2022) a matsayin kyaftin-kocin, wanda ya yi aiki kusan $ 11,667 (daidai le $ 67,740 a 2022) kowace shekara, kusan kashi ɗaya bisa uku na kyautar Turvey Park ta asali.

A shekara ta 1978, ya koma Canberra, kuma an nada shi kyaftin-kocin Kungiyar kwallon kafa ta Ainslie . A wannan shekarar, ya kuma kasance kyaftin-kocin ƙungiyar hadin gwiwar Australian Capital Territory (ACT) a gasar Escort Cup. Har yanzu yana da tasiri sosai a gaba, ya kafa rikodin burin a shekarar 1980. Tare da Neale a matsayin kyaftin dinta, Ainslie ta lashe firaministan a 1979, 1980, 1982 da 1983.

## Kudancin Australia
Saboda ba zai iya shiga filin wasa ba a matsayin dan wasa, kungiyar kwallon kafa ta Ainslie ta saki Neale, tunda kulob din su da tsarin tawagar su a lokacin sun bukaci kocin wasa (kulob din ya nada tsohon dan wasan Richmond / tsohon dan wasan Collingwood Rod Oborne a matsayin kyaftin-kocin na kakar 1984). 

An cire shi daga Ainslie, Neale ya koma horar da Kungiyar Kwallon Kafa ta Tsakiya a cikin SANFL. Ya kasance mai horar da 'yan wasa daga 1984 zuwa 1987.

## Tuggeranong
Neale ya horar da Kungiyar kwallon kafa ta Tuggeranong na tsawon shekaru uku (1993-1995).  Ya sake horar da Ainslie a shekarar 1998.

## Mutuwa
Kevin Neale ya mutu daga matsalolin Cutar Alzheimer a ranar 16 ga Satumba 2023, yana da shekaru 78. 

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