Geoff Valli

Position(s)	Fullback
All Black No.	820
Provincial / State sides
National team(s)

Geoff Valli
Birth name	Geoffrey Thomas Valli
Date of birth	3 November 1954 (age 65)
Place of birth	Nightcaps, New Zealand
Height	1.78 m (5 ft 10 in)
Weight	86 kg (190 lb)
School	Nightcaps District High School
Occupation(s)	Builder [1]
Rugby union career
Position(s)	Fullback
All Black No.	820
Provincial / State sides
National team(s)

Last updated November 04, 2019

Geoffrey Thomas Valli (born 3 November 1954) is a former New Zealand rugby union player. A full-back, Valli represented Southland and North Auckland at a provincial level. He played a single game for the New Zealand national side, the All Blacks, against Fiji in 1980, for which the New Zealand Rugby Union did not award full international caps.^[2]

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The Northland Rugby Union is the governing body of rugby union in the Northland region of New Zealand, including the northernmost part of the Auckland local government region. It was named the "North Auckland Rugby Union" from its founding in 1920 until 1994.

The 1980 Fiji rugby union tour of New Zealand was a series of twelve matches by the Fiji national rugby union team in New Zealand in August and September 1980. The Fiji team won only four of the twelve matches, and lost the single international match against a New Zealand XV – for which New Zealand did not award full international caps.

Valli's brother, Keith, was killed in the Pike River Mine disaster in 2010.^[1]

The Pike River Mine disaster was a coal mining accident that began on 19 November 2010 in the Pike River Mine, 46 kilometres (29 mi) northeast of Greymouth, in the West Coast region of New Zealand's South Island. A methane explosion occurred in the mine at approximately 3:44 pm. At the time of the explosion 31 miners and contractors were present in the mine. Two miners managed to walk from the mine; they were treated for moderate injuries and released from Greymouth Hospital the next day. The remaining 16 miners and 13 contractors were believed to be at least 1.5 kilometres (1,600 yd) from the mine's entrance.

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References

1 2 Laird, Lindy (26 November 2010). "Northland All Black loses brother in Greymouth tragedy". Northern Advocate. Retrieved 10 August 2014.
↑ Knight, Lindsay. "Geoff Valli". New Zealand Rugby Union. Retrieved 10 August 2014.

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[Advocate-1] 1 2 Laird, Lindy (26 November 2010). "Northland All Black loses brother in Greymouth tragedy". Northern Advocate. Retrieved 10 August 2014.

[2] Knight, Lindsay. "Geoff Valli". New Zealand Rugby Union. Retrieved 10 August 2014.