Tumua Manu
| Date of birth | 18 April 1993 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Place of birth | Apia, Samoa | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Height | 1.83 m (6 ft 0 in) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Weight | 97 kg (214 lb; 15 st 4 lb) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| School | Sagaga College | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Tumua Manu (born 18 April 1993) is a Samoan professional rugby union player who plays as a centre for Top 14 club Pau and the Samoa national team.[1]
Club career
[edit]Manu decided to try his chances in New Zealand Rugby in 2015. He played for College Rifles that year but at the end of the season he suffered an ACL injury and spent most of 2016 on the sideline in rehabilitation. He returned to play for the club in 2017 and impressed sufficiently to get a call-up to the Auckland side in the Mitre 10 Cup. Injuries to Sonny Bill Williams and Tamati Tua gave him an opportunity to play for the Blues in Super Rugby 2018 where he scored 3 tries in 4 matches.[2]
References
[edit]- ^ "Tumua Manu". www.itsrugby.co.uk. Retrieved 23 April 2018.
- ^ "TUMUA MANU FROM SAMOA TO SUPER SUB".
External links
[edit]- Tumua Manu at ESPNscrum
- Tumua Manu at ItsRugby.co.uk
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- New Zealand rugby union players
- 1993 births
- Living people
- Samoan emigrants to New Zealand
- Auckland rugby union players
- Blues (Super Rugby) players
- Chiefs (rugby union) players
- Samoan rugby union players
- Rugby union centres
- Rugby union wings
- Section Paloise players
- 2023 Rugby World Cup players
- New Zealand expatriate rugby union players in France
- Samoa international rugby union players
- Rugby union players from Apia
- 21st-century New Zealand sportsmen
- New Zealand rugby union biography, 1990s birth stubs