Dwayne Polataivao
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Date of birth | July 30, 1990 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Place of birth | Samoa | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Height | 1.75 m (5 ft 9 in)[1] | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Weight | 92 kg (14 st 7 lb; 203 lb)[1] | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
School | De La Salle College | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Dwayne E. Polataivao (born 30 July 1990)[1] is a Samoan rugby union Scrum-half.[2] He also represents Samoa internationally.[3][4][5]
Career[]
He started his professional career playing for the Auckland Rugby Union in 2015,[1] and was first selected for the Samoan national rugby union team in 2016.
He joined the Doncaster Knights in 2019.[1][6]
He was selected for the Samoa national squad ahead of the 2019 World Rugby Pacific Nations Cup.[1]
In September 2020 he was named in the Tasman Mako squad for the 2020 Mitre 10 Cup.[7] He played 7 games for the Mako in the 2020 season as they won their second premiership title in a row.
Polataivao was named in the Moana Pasifika squad to play the Maori All Blacks in late 2020, coming off the bench and scoring a try in a 28-21 loss.
References[]
- ^ a b c d e f "Dwayne Polataivo". Ultimate Rugby. Retrieved 20 September 2019.
- ^ "Dwayne Polataivao". mako.nz. Retrieved 6 October 2020.
- ^ "Samoa's Pisi chases second Wallabies upset". ESPN. 4 September 2019. Retrieved 20 September 2019.
- ^ "Wallabies ease past Samoa in Rugby World Cup warm-up". The Guardian. 7 September 2019. Retrieved 20 September 2019.
- ^ "Pocock returns as Wallabies down Samoa in Sydney". Reuters. 7 September 2019. Retrieved 20 September 2019.
- ^ "One Local Player in Samoa's Rugby World Cup Squad". Samoa Global News. 1 September 2019. Retrieved 20 September 2019.
- ^ "2020 Tasman Mako Squad". mako.nz. 5 September 2020. Retrieved 6 September 2020.
External links[]
- 1990 births
- Living people
- Samoan rugby union players
- Samoa international rugby union players
- Rugby union scrum-halves
- Auckland rugby union players
- Doncaster Knights players
- Utah Warriors players
- Tasman rugby union players
- Moana Pasifika players
- Samoan rugby union biography stubs