Something in the water? ANOTHER AFL coach mysteriously splits with his high school sweetheart wife after 15 years of marriage – the third shock breakup to rock the footy world within weeks
Yet another AFL coach has split from his long-term partner after a tumultuous 2020 season that saw teams constrained to living in Covid bubbles.
Melbourne Football Club coach Simon Goodwin has separated from his teenage sweetheart, ending their 15 years of marriage.
The two have three teenage children and got hitched in 2005, but the former couple have been living apart for the past three months, the Herald Sun reported.
Goodwin joined the Demons in 2016 from Essendon and had a stellar playing career racking up 275 games for the Adelaide Crows and winning two premierships.
He is the third AFL coach in the past few weeks to separate from his wife.
In December, Collingwood head coach Nathan Buckley and his partner Tania called it quits after 18 years of marriage.
Later that same month Richmond coach Damien Hardwick and his wife Danielle also ended their relationship.
When Goodwin was appointed to take over at the Demons he told reporters that he owed his success to his beloved wife Maggie who had stuck by his side through thick and thin.
‘We’ve been together for a long time, since we were 19,’ he said in September 2016.
‘She’s supported me through all of the challenges in my life. We live in a really selfish industry in a lot of ways, especially as a player and also now as a coach.
‘It’s such a selfish industry and she’s had to sustain a lot, and she’s pulled me into line when she’s needed to — I’ve needed that a few times that’s for sure.’
While the relationship may be over, the couple are reportedly still on good terms and recently attended wedding together over the new year break in South Australia.
More to come.
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