stephen steve malaxos born 19 june 1961 is a former australian rules footballer and coach from western australia while playing for claremont in the wafl he won the 1984 sandover medal malaxos was an allaustralian with claremont in 1986 and while he was with the west coast eagles in 1988 he was the inaugural fairest and best player at west coast 1987 holds the eagles record for the most possessions in a game 48 and captained the club in 1990malaxos is now head coach at east fremantle after successfully coaching the colts team to a premiership in 2010 in 2005 he was inducted into the western australian football hall of famehe began his senior career as a forward in 1979 with claremont and helped the tigers rise to power at the beginning of the 1980s in 1981 claremont broke scoring records week after week on their way to their first wanfl premiership since 1964 and malaxos crumbing was the perfect foil to warren ralph despite missing a quarter of the season though injury malaxos kicked 82 goals and during 1982 was widely tipped to be the second nonfull forward to top the century after kevin taylor in 1979 though he finished nine goals shortduring 1983 malaxos was shifted onto the ball to cope with losses to the vfl the move was a resounding success as he won the club trophy in both 1983 and 1984 becoming western australian sports star of the year in 1984 after winning the sandovermalaxos was recruited by hawthorn in the vfl for the following season he went to glenferrie oval as the allaustralian captain but struggled for an opportunity in the powerful hawks lineup malaxos was a reserves and night premiership player with the hawks but returned to claremont at the end of the season after playing only nine senior gamesat the end of the 1986 season west coast due to enter the vfl competition for the 1987 season added malaxos to their inaugural list the eagles were required to pay the hawks a 35000 clearance feein malaxos inaugural season at west coast he played 21 games in round 22 against st kilda he collected his record of 48 possessionsin 1990 malaxos played 20 games during the homeandaway season including the clubs historic drawn qualifying final against collingwood and the replay a week later despite being captain malaxos was dropped for the remaining finals matches and replaced as captain by john worsfold he did not add to his total of 66 games for west coast but was on the clubs list for the 1991 seasonduring 1991 he played his 150th game with claremont in 1992 he transferred to east fremantle he won three club fairest and best awards with the sharks and played in premiership sides in 1992 and 1994in 1999 malaxos was appointed as coach of the sydney swans reserves team in the afl in 2004 malaxos was appointed to an assistant coachs position with fremantle in the afl a position he left in 2009malaxos was inducted into the western australian football hall of fame in 2005