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| Date of birth | 10 March 1984 | ||||||||||||||||
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| Place of birth | Tonga | ||||||||||||||||
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Simione Foliaki (born 10 March 1981, in Tonga) is a Tongan rugby league footballer who plays as a fullback for the Vaini Doves in the Tonga National Rugby League competition.
Foliaki has also appeared on several occasions for the Tonga national rugby league team. His most recent international games came during the 2006 Federation Shield competition; in one of these, a losing game against England, he was sent off, [1] . [2]
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