Jim Silvestro | |
Fullname: | Jim Silvestro |
Birth Date: | 30 May 1963 |
Originalteam: | Traralgon |
Draftpick: | No. 19, 1987 national draft |
Height: | 173 cm |
Weight: | 73 kg |
Statsend: | 1988 |
Years1: | 1988 |
Club1: | Sydney Swans |
Games Goals1: | 8 (7) |
Jim Silvestro (born 30 May 1963) is a former Australian rules footballer who played with the Sydney Swans in the Victorian Football League (VFL).[1]
Silvestro won the Latrobe Valley Football League's best and fairest award back to back in 1986 and 1987, playing for Traralgon. A rover, he was selected by the Sydney Swans with pick 49 in the 1987 National Draft.[2] He made eight appearances for the Swans in the 1988 VFL season.[3] In round 12, he kicked four goals in a win over the West Coast Eagles at the Sydney Cricket Ground.[3] [4]
From 1991 to 1993, then again in 1998, Silvestro was coach of Corowa-Rutherglen in the Ovens & Murray Football League.[5] He also coached the Wodonga Raiders, in 1996.[6]