Steve Ella
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Personal information
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| Full name | Steve Ella | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Nickname | The ZipZip Man | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Born |
28 July 1960 Mount Pritchard, New South Wales |
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Playing information
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| Position | Centre, Five-eighth, Fullback | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Steve Ella (born 28 July 1960 in Mount Pritchard, New South Wales) is an Australian former rugby league footballer of the 1980s. He was a utility back for the Parramatta Eels, New South Wales and Australia, playing in 4 Tests for his country between 1983 and 1985. He is a cousin of the Ella brothers who were prominent in Australian rugby union in the 1980s.
Steve Ella had a ten-year career with the Parramatta Eels playing every position in the Eels backline, though mostly playing at either Centre or Five-eighth.
Nicknamed "The Zipzip Man" Ella was a member of Parramatta's star studded backlines of the early 1980s playing alongside Brett Kenny, Mick Cronin, Peter Sterling and Eric Grothe. It was only the presence of Five-eight Kenny and the partnership he had with Halfback Sterling that saw Ella play most of his first grade games in the centres where he formed the NSWRL premiership's most lethal centre pairing alongside Cronin.
He was a member of four Premiership winning sides at Parramatta in 1981, 1982, 1983 and 1986 as well as the 1984 Grand Final loss to Canterbury-Bankstown. Ella scored tries in the 1981 and 1982 Grand Final victories over Newtown and Manly-Warringah.
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