{"id":4665,"date":"2020-12-03T04:08:28","date_gmt":"2020-12-03T05:08:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/?p=4665"},"modified":"2020-12-03T07:08:14","modified_gmt":"2020-12-03T07:08:14","slug":"how-afl-star-came-to-terms-with-shock-delisting","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/?p=4665","title":{"rendered":"How AFL star came to terms with shock delisting"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Former AFL speedster Lewis Jetta says he&#x27;s no longer stewing over his surprise delisting and is instead buoyed by more family time and a footy career he can be proud of.<\/p>\n<p>Jetta&#x27;s 11-year career in the AFL was brought to a halt when the West Coast Eagles delisted the excitement machine in November.<\/p>\n<p>But the Western Australian says partner Jessica Miller and his two young children, Lewis and Daisy, have lifted him over the disappointment.<\/p>\n<p>&quot;I still think I had a couple of years left, but looking back now I&#x27;m satisfied,&quot; Jetta said on SEN&#x27;s <em>The Sporting Capital<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p><img data-id=\"a9905a75-bf88-4e5c-85c5-f30e72f4b7ed\" src=\"https:\/\/prod.static9.net.au\/fs\/a9905a75-bf88-4e5c-85c5-f30e72f4b7ed\" alt=\"Lewis Jetta\" data-width=\"1396\" data-height=\"785\" \/><\/p>\n<p>&quot;I&#x27;m very satisfied, I&#x27;m happy and the way I see it, footy&#x27;s not everything.<\/p>\n<p>&quot;I&#x27;m ready for this new chapter in my life and I&#x27;m ready to spend a lot more time with my children and teach them about life, which is probably the biggest excitement that I&#x27;m getting at the moment.&quot;<\/p>\n<p>Jetta played 202 games with Sydney and West Coast after being drafted by the Swans in 2009.<\/p>\n<p>He played 127 matches with Sydney before adding another 75 games in West Coast colours after being traded to the Eagles ahead of season 2016.<\/p>\n<p>Jetta was a member of the Swans&#x27; 2012 premiership team and won a second flag with the Eagles in 2018.<\/p>\n<p>One of the stand-out moments of his career was outrunning Hawthorn&#x27;s Cyril Rioli in a thrilling contest on a wing in the 2012 decider.<\/p>\n<p>Jetta has fond memories of his AFL career.<\/p>\n<p><img data-id=\"4900ef54-250a-4c30-bc13-3028ca255a9e\" src=\"https:\/\/prod.static9.net.au\/fs\/4900ef54-250a-4c30-bc13-3028ca255a9e\" alt=\"Lewis Jetta\" data-width=\"1396\" data-height=\"785\" \/><\/p>\n<p>&quot;It&#x27;s hard to explain it \u2026 I&#x27;m just a boy from Bunbury and back in &#x27;09 or &#x27;07, I never thought about making it to the AFL and then having the career that I had. It was just a dream to be honest,&quot; Jetta said.<\/p>\n<p>&quot;Thinking back now, I still can&#x27;t believe it. I reflected with my family and a couple of brothers and still can&#x27;t believe it.<\/p>\n<p>&quot;Now my son and my daughter are reflecting as well which is even better because all they see is daddy is being dad and being \u2026 not a superstar, let&#x27;s put half a star.<\/p>\n<p>&quot;At the end of the day that&#x27;s all I tried to do: making the family proud and bringing entertainment to a lot of fans.&quot;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div class=\"mh-excerpt\"><p>Former AFL speedster Lewis Jetta says he&#x27;s no longer stewing over his surprise delisting and is instead buoyed by more family time and a footy <a class=\"mh-excerpt-more\" href=\"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/?p=4665\" title=\"How AFL star came to terms with shock delisting\">[&#8230;]<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4665"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4665"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4665\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4667,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4665\/revisions\/4667"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4665"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4665"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4665"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}