Daniel Metropolis is a former Australian rules football

Australian rules football

Australian rules football, officially known as Australian football, also called football, Aussie rules or footy is a sport played between two teams of 22 players on either...

er who played for the West Coast Eagles

West Coast Eagles

The West Coast Eagles are an Australian rules football club which plays in the Australian Football League. The club is based in Perth, Western Australia. The club was founded in 1986 and played its first games in the 1987 season. Its current home ground is Subiaco Oval...

 and the Fremantle Dockers

Fremantle Football Club

The Fremantle Football Club, nicknamed The Dockers, is an Australian rules football team which plays in the Australian Football League . The club is based in the port city of Fremantle at the mouth of the Swan River in Western Australia...

 between 1992 and 2001.

Career

The son of former Subiaco player Peter Metropolis

Peter Metropolis

Peter James Metropolis is a former Australian rules football player and administrator. He played 159 games for the Subiaco Football Club in the West Australian Football League , including the 1973 premiership, and later served as president of the club.-Playing career:Metropolis began his football...

, he was drafted from Subiaco

Subiaco Football Club

The Subiaco Football Club, nicknamed the Lions, is an Australian rules football club in the West Australian Football League . It was founded in 1896, and admitted to the WAFL in 1901, along with North Fremantle...

 in the WAFL

West Australian Football League

The West Australian Football League is an Australian rules football league based in Perth, Western Australia. The WAFL is the second-most popular in the state, behind the nation-wide Australian Football League...

 with selection 16 in the 1991 AFL Draft

1991 AFL Draft

- History :When the competition was known as the Victorian Football League , the league introduced the first incarnation of a draft system in 1981, where teams had two selections each of interstate players determined by reverse finishing position order...

 . He starred in his debut game in 1992 against St Kilda, kicking 6 goals, including two goals with his first two kicks in the AFL. This was his highest goal scoring game, spending most of the remainder of his career playing as a defender.

After only missing one game during the 1999 and 2000 seasons, he was traded to Fremantle along with the 51st selection in return for Greg Harding

Greg Harding

Greg Harding is an Australian rules footballer. He played for both the Fremantle Football Club and the West Coast Eagles. He was drafted by Fremantle from Claremont in the WAFL as a zone selection in the 1995 AFL Draft and played mainly as a defender.He made his AFL debut in the opening round...

. He only played six games for Fremantle before injuring his knee at the end of the 2001 season. He announced his retirement after not playing a game in the 2002 season.