Emosi Vucago

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Emosi Vucago
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Birth nameRatu Emosi Vucago
Date of birth (1983-05-10) May 10, 1983 (age 41)
Place of birth Flag of Fiji.svg Fiji
Height1.70 m (5 ft 7 in)
Weight77 kg (12 st 2 lb; 170 lb)
Rugby union career
Position(s) Half-back
Senior career
YearsTeamApps(Points)

2013-
Nadroga
OPSB
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International career
YearsTeamApps(Points)
2006-2010Flag of Fiji.svg  Fiji 3 (0)
National sevens team
YearsTeamComps
2007–present Fiji 7s

Ratu Emosi Vucago (born May 10, 1983) is a Fiji Rugby union player. He plays as a half-back in the Fifteens man-code and also as a halfback/fly-half in the Sevens code He has also been part Fiji Sevens team since the Wellington leg in 2007. He is a cousin of Fiji national Fly Half, Seremaia Bai

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In the Fifteens version of the game, he plays as a half-back and has represented Nadroga several times in the Digicel Cup and he also plays for the Coastal Stallions in the Colonial Cup as well as being part of their 2006 winning team. He made his fifteens debut against Tonga in Gosford Park, Australia in June 2006 where they lost by a point. Emosi is currently the vice captain for Fiji in the 2011/12 HSBC Series.

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