Tupo Fa'amasino

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Tupo Fa'amasino
Born (1966-04-13) 13 April 1966 (age 59)
Apia, Samoa
Height6 ft 0 in (1.83 m)
Weight209 lb (95 kg)
Rugby union career
Position Centre
Senior career
YearsTeamApps(Points)
1989-1991 Oriental Rongotai
1993 NikoNikoDo [1]
2000 Otahuhu [2]
2006 East Tamaki RFC
Provincial / State sides
YearsTeamApps(Points)
1989-91 Wellington 17 (20)
Super Rugby
YearsTeamApps(Points)
1996 Wellington Hurricanes [3]
International career
YearsTeamApps(Points)
1988-1996 Samoa 37 (36)
1993 Japan
Coaching career
YearsTeam
2006 East Tamaki RFC [4]

Tupo Fa'amasino (born 13 April 1966, in Apia) is a former Samoan rugby union player. He played as a centre.

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Career

His first match with Samoa was in the match against Wales at Cardiff, on 12 November 1988, during the 1988 Western Samoa tour in Wales. He was part of the 1991 and 1995 World Cups. [5] He also played for Japan twice in the 1993 Japan tour in Argentina and Wales, in the match against Wales on 16 October 1993. His last international match for Samoa was in a test match against Fiji at Suva, on 20 July 1996. [6]

References

  1. ↑ The influence of foreign players on the transformation of Japanese rugby
  2. ↑ Rugby NZ Herald News
  3. ↑ Pacific Islands being shut out of Super Rugby
  4. ↑ Naismith's century victory
  5. ↑ Barclay, Simon (2019). Rugby World Cup 1987 - 2019: Complete Results and Statistics. Lulu. p. 54. ISBN   978-0244232450.
  6. ↑ "Tupo Fa'amasino". ESPN scrum. Retrieved 6 February 2024.


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