Michael Blees
Australian rules footballer
Michael Blees (6 August 1962 – 7 April 1985) was an Australian rules footballer who represented the St Kilda Football Club in the Victorian Football League (VFL) during the 1980s.
Blees joined the club from Kananook and made his senior debut in the last game of 1981 against Footscray. The following season he played 10 senior games. Three more games in 1983 before acquiring an illness in February 1984. Fourteen months later he died leaving behind a grieving widow.
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