Daniel Southern

Daniel Mark "Danny" Southern (born 1 January 1975) is a former Australian rules footballer who played with the Western Bulldogs in the Australian Football League (AFL).

Daniel Southern
Personal information
Full name	Daniel Mark Southern
Date of birth	(1975-01-01) 1 January 1975 (age 50)
Original team(s)	West Coast Junior Football Club
Debut	Round 1, 1994, Footscray vs. Richmond, at Western Oval
Height	188 cm (6 ft 2 in)
Weight	92 kg (203 lb)
Position(s)	Defender
Playing career1
Years	Club	Games (Goals)
1993	Claremont (WAFL)	018 0(2)
1994–2000	Footscray/Western Bulldogs	103 (28)
Total		121 (30)
1 Playing statistics correct to the end of 2000.
Career highlights
AFL Rising Star nominee 1994 Larke Medal 1992 Claremont premiership side 1993
Sources: AFL Tables, AustralianFootball.com

Southern was a defender and was recruited to the Bulldogs from Claremont in Western Australia.

He played 24 games in his debut season in 1994 and polled 12 Brownlow Medal votes in six of those games. Southern brought up his 100th game for the club in 2000 before yet another knee injury forced him to retire.

Southern moved to Egypt in 2004 to work as a tour leader and then ground manager for Intrepid Travel. He converted to Islam in 2005 and married an Egyptian Muslim in 2009.^[1] Amidst the chaos of the Egyptian Revolution of 2011, Daniel's wife Reham gave birth to their son Zakaria Daniel Mark Southern.