Stephen Silvagni Australian rules football player

Stephen Silvagni (born 31 May 1967) is a former Australian rules footballer for the Carlton Football Club.During his long VFL/AFL career, from his debut in 1985, until his retirement in 2001, he gained the reputation as one of the greatest ever full-backs to play the game and was named as full-back in the AFL Team of the Century and is an inductee in the Australian Football Hall of Fame.He is widely known by his nickname, "SOS" (pronounced "Soss"), standing for "Son of Serge", referring to his father, Sergio Silvagni, another great Carlton player.After retiring from football, Silvagni worked as an assistant coach at four AFL clubs until the end of 2010. In 2011 Silvagni took on the role of list manager with the Greater Western Sydney Football Club.