Alamanda Motuga
| Full name | Alamanda Lolo Motuga | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Born | 11 September 1994 Auckland, New Zealand | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Height | 1.88 m (6 ft 2 in) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Weight | 111 kg (245 lb; 17 st 7 lb) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| School | Manurewa High School | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Alamanda Lolo Motuga (born 11 September 1994) is a professional rugby union player who plays as a flanker for Super Rugby club Moana Pasifika. Born in New Zealand, he represents Samoa at international level after qualifying on ancestry grounds.[1]
Early life
[edit | edit source]Motuga was educated at Manurewa High School in Auckland, New Zealand.[2] He began playing rugby for Manurewa in the Counties-Manukau Amateur Federation Championship.[3] He also played rugby sevens with the Auckland Marist team.[4]
Club career
[edit | edit source]In 2020 he joined the Counties Manukau squad for the 2020 Mitre 10 Cup.[5] In November 2020 he represented Moana Pasifika in their inaugural match against the Māori All Blacks.[6] In October 2021 he signed to Moana Pacifica for the 2022 season.[7]
International career
[edit | edit source]In February 2016 he was selected for the Samoa national rugby sevens team to play in the Las Vegas and Vancouver legs of the 2015–16 World Rugby Sevens Series.[4] In May 2016 he was part of the Samoan team that won the 2016 Paris Sevens.[8][9] He went on to represent Samoa in 36 sevens competitions from 2016.[10]
In July 2019 he was selected for the Samoa national rugby union team for the 2019 World Rugby Pacific Nations Cup,[11] making his debut for the national side against Tonga. His performances for Samoa and Samoa Sevens earned him a call-up to the Samoa squad for the 2019 Rugby World Cup as a replacement for Afa Amosa.[12][13]
He competed for Samoa at the 2024 Summer Olympics in Paris.[14][15]
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External links
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- Rugby World Cup profile
- 1994 births
- Samoan rugby union players
- Samoa international rugby union players
- Living people
- Rugby union flankers
- Moana Pasifika players
- 21st-century Samoan sportsmen
- Counties Manukau rugby union players
- 2019 Rugby World Cup players
- 2023 Rugby World Cup players
- Pacific Games silver medalists for Samoa
- Pacific Games medalists in rugby sevens
- Samoa international rugby sevens players
- New Zealand people of Samoan descent
- Olympic rugby sevens players for Samoa
- Rugby sevens players at the 2024 Summer Olympics
- Samoan rugby union biography stubs