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| Date of birth | 16 March 1978 | ||||||||||||||||
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| Place of birth | Suva, Fiji | ||||||||||||||||
| Height | 5 ft 11 in (180 cm) | ||||||||||||||||
| Weight | 198 lb (90 kg) | ||||||||||||||||
| School | Lelean Memorial School | ||||||||||||||||
| University | University of the South Pacific | ||||||||||||||||
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Saiasi Fuli (born 16 March 1978) is a Fijian rugby union coach and former international player.
A scrum-half, Fuli hails from the Suva suburb of Nabua and attended Lelean Memorial School. He captained their under-17s to a national title and after leaving school played rugby for Suva. In 2002, Fuli was a member of the Fiji rugby sevens team, which won a silver medal at the Manchester Commonwealth Games. He played a 2004 Test match for the Fiji XV against Samoa in front of a home crown in Suva, coming on off the bench to earn his first cap. [1]
Fuli coached the Fiji women's national rugby sevens team to a bronze medal at the 2020 Summer Olympics in Tokyo. [2]
In 2021, Fuli was awarded a 50th Independence Medal for services to rugby. [3]
Waisale Tikoisolomoni Serevi is a Fijian former rugby union football player and coach, and is a member of the World Rugby Hall of Fame. Serevi is renowned for his achievements in rugby sevens, while also enjoying a long career in fifteen-a-side rugby at both club and national team levels. Nicknamed "The Wizard" by commentators, he is widely considered to be the greatest rugby sevens player in the history of the game. A biography of Serevi titled Waisale Serevi: King of Sevens by Nick Darvenzi was published in 2018.
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