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Full name | Aasaeli Amone | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Born | [1] Tonga | 8 January 1966 ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Position | Fly-half [2] | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Position | Fullback, Wing, Centre, Prop [3] [4] | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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AasaeliAmone (born 8 January 1966), also known by the nickname "Asa", is a Tongan former dual code international rugby union and rugby league footballer. He played representative rugby union for Tonga, as a fly-half, [2] and representative rugby league (RL) for Tonga, and at club level for Halifax Blue Sox and Featherstone Rovers, as a fullback , wing , centre or prop. [3] [5]
Amone played four times for Tonga in 1987, including twice in the 1987 Rugby World Cup. [2]
He played for Tonga in the 1995 Rugby League World Cup. [6]
Asa Amone made his début for Featherstone Rovers on Sunday 1 February 1998, and he played his last match for Featherstone Rovers during the 1999 season.
Asa Amone was a playing interchange/substitute in Featherstone Rovers' 22-24 defeat by Wakefield Trinity in the 1998 First Division Grand Final at McAlpine Stadium, Huddersfield on 26 September 1998. [7] He also played for various clubs in New Zealand, and was noted for appearances for the Australian club Orange Hawks. [8] In 2006 he joined the Qantas Cyms team. [9]
As of 2011, he worked in a mine in Western Australia. [10]
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