Ang Christou

Ang Christou (born 16 January 1972) is a former Australian rules footballer for Carlton in the Australian Football League.

Ang Christou
Personal information
Date of birth	(1972-01-16) 16 January 1972 (age 53)
Original team(s)	East Brunswick
Debut	Round 24, 1991, Carlton vs. Richmond, at MCG
Height	190 cm (6 ft 3 in)
Weight	90 kg (198 lb)
Playing career1
Years	Club	Games (Goals)
1991–2002	Carlton	151 (20)
1 Playing statistics correct to the end of 2002.
Career highlights
1993 AFL Rising Star nominee 1995 All-Australian team 1995 Premiership Player
Sources: AFL Tables, AustralianFootball.com

AFL career

Christou played for the Carlton Football Club and along with Anthony Koutoufides was a popular figure as a Greek Australian.

In 2001, Christou had a solid pre-season, but missed the first month of the AFL season due to a knee injury. After his return in Round 7, Christou was noted for his penetrating kicks from defence. However, he was dropped after Round 17 playing only 13 games for the season, including a recall for the finals series of 2001 (receiving limited game time).

Christou was noted for his long, accurate left foot kicks, often upwards of 60–65 metres. Whenever taking a kick, short or long, a chant from the Carlton crowd of "WOOF!" would always be heard. Christou was the second Carlton player to receive this chant, after Val Perovic (another long, left-footed defender) during the 1980s.^[1]

Statistics

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Legend

G	Goals	K	Kicks	D	Disposals	T	Tackles
B	Behinds	H	Handballs	M	Marks
#	Played in that season's  premiership team

Season	Team	No.	Games	Totals							Averages (per game)							Votes
				G	B	K	H	D	M	T	G	B	K	H	D	M	T
1991	Carlton	56	1	1	2	8	4	12	5	1	1.0	2.0	8.0	4.0	12.0	5.0	1.0	0
1992	Carlton	39	5	1	0	38	10	48	4	10	0.2	0.0	7.6	2.0	9.6	0.8	2.0	0
1993	Carlton	39	18	5	1	166	83	249	58	27	0.3	0.1	9.2	4.6	13.8	3.2	1.5	3
1994	Carlton	39	24	3	4	282	123	405	85	39	0.1	0.2	11.8	5.1	16.9	3.5	1.6	5
1995 #	Carlton	39	25	6	5	339	118	457	92	50	0.2	0.2	13.6	4.7	18.3	3.7	2.0	7
1996	Carlton	39	24	1	8	283	87	370	83	26	0.0	0.3	11.8	3.6	15.4	3.5	1.1	3
1997	Carlton	39	8	0	0	99	31	130	30	14	0.0	0.0	12.4	3.9	16.3	3.8	1.8	0
1998	Carlton	39	0	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—
1999	Carlton	39	11	0	0	87	36	123	21	10	0.0	0.0	7.9	3.3	11.2	1.9	0.9	0
2000	Carlton	39	10	1	1	80	30	110	12	11	0.1	0.1	8.0	3.0	11.0	1.2	1.1	0
2001	Carlton	39	13	1	1	116	53	169	39	19	0.1	0.1	8.9	4.1	13.0	3.0	1.5	0
2002	Carlton	39	12	1	1	127	52	179	44	24	0.1	0.1	10.6	4.3	14.9	3.7	2.0	0
Career			151	20	23	1625	627	2252	473	231	0.1	0.2	10.8	4.2	14.9	3.1	1.5	18

Post-football career

Christou participated in the E. J. Whitten Legends Game in 2003 and was awarded Man of the Match for his great game that night and was met with an enthused reaction from the crowd.

There was talk of Christou trying out as a punter for the National Football League in early 2003, a three-man crew from a US club (the identity of which Christou refused to reveal) spent two weeks in Melbourne putting him through a series of stringent tests however no signing resulted.

He co-owned the Souvlaki Hut restaurant in Templestowe Lower in Melbourne's north-east with former Carlton teammate Anthony Koutoufides, until its closure in early 2011.^[3]

He married his girlfriend Tammy on 14 May 2016.