Full name | Alamanda Lolo Motuga | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Date of birth | 11 September 1994 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Place of birth | Auckland, New Zealand | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Height | 1.88 m (6 ft 2 in) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Weight | 111 kg (245 lb; 17 st 7 lb) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
School | Manurewa High School | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Alamanda Lolo Motuga (born 11 September 1994) is a professional rugby union player who plays as a flanker for Super Rugby club Moana Pasifika. Born in New Zealand, he represents Samoa at international level after qualifying on ancestry grounds. [1]
Motuga was educated at Manurewa High School in Auckland, New Zealand. [2] He began playing rugby for Manurewa in the Counties-Manukau Amateur Federation Championship. [3] He also played rugby sevens with the Auckland Marist team. [4]
In 2020 he joined the Counties Manukau squad for the 2020 Mitre 10 Cup. [5] In November 2020 he represented Moana Pasifika in their inaugural match against the Māori All Blacks. [6] In October 2021 he signed to Moana Pacifica for the 2022 season. [7]
In February 2016 he was selected for the Samoa national rugby sevens team to play in the Las Vegas and Vancouver legs of the 2015–16 World Rugby Sevens Series. [4] In May 2016 he was part of the Samoan team that won the 2016 Paris Sevens. [8] [9] He went on to represent Samoa in 36 sevens competitions from 2016. [10]
In July 2019 he was selected for the Samoa national rugby union team for the 2019 World Rugby Pacific Nations Cup, [11] making his debut for the national side against Tonga. His performances for Samoa and Samoa Sevens earned him a call-up to the Samoa squad for the 2019 Rugby World Cup as a replacement for Afa Amosa. [12] [13]
He competed for Samoa at the 2024 Summer Olympics in Paris. [14] [15]
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