Brendon Gotuno

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Brendon Gotuno
Personal information
Born (1995-10-23) 23 October 1995 (age 28)
Chimbu Province, Papua New Guinea
Height170 cm (5 ft 7 in)
Weight73 kg (11 st 7 lb)
Playing information
Position Centre
Club
YearsTeamPldTGFGP
2018–21 PNG Hunters 860024
Representative
YearsTeamPldTGFGP
2017 PNG Prime Minister's XIII 10000
Source: [1]

Brendon Gotuno [1] is a Papua New Guinean professional rugby league footballer who plays as a Centre for the Papua New Guinea Hunters in the Queensland Cup. [2]

He was signed by the Penrith Panthers through the Lion Heart International (LHI) Sports Foundation program [3] to play for their Intrust Super Premiership team in 2019 but due to visa and passport complications he returned to the Papua New Guinea Hunters for the 2019 season.

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References

  1. 1 2 "Official Intrust Super Cup profile of Brendon Gutono for Papua New Guinea Hunters". QRL. Retrieved 2018-10-30.
  2. "Gotuno to prove his worth". Post Courier. Retrieved 2018-10-30.
  3. "All about PNG Rugby League public group". Facebook. Retrieved 2018-10-30.