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Feʻao Vunipola

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Fe'ao Vunipola
Birth nameFe'ao Moe Laru Vunipola
Date of birth (1969-01-06) 6 January 1969 (age 55)
Height5 ft 9 in (1.75 m)
Weight234 lb (16 st 10 lb; 106 kg)
Notable relative(s)Elisi Vunipola (brother)
Manu Vunipola (brother)
Mako Vunipola (son)
Billy Vunipola (son)
Rugby union career
Position(s) Hooker
Senior career
Years Team Apps (Points)
1988-1998
1998–1999
1999–2001
2001–2003
Toa-ko-Ma'afu RFC
Pontypool
Pontypridd
Caerphilly

24
44 (?)
8

(55)
(?)
(5)
International career
Years Team Apps (Points)
1988–2001 Tonga 34 (15)

Fe'ao Moe Lotu Vunipola (born 6 January 1969) is a Tongan former international rugby union player who participated at the 1995 Rugby World Cup and 1999 Rugby World Cup.[1] He is the father of Mako Vunipola[2] and Billy Vunipola,[3] and is married to Rev. Iesinga Vunipola, Methodist minister and chaplain to the UK Tongan community.[4] He moved to Wales in 1998 to sign with Pontypool, and in 1999 joined up with Pontypridd.[5] He left to join neighbours Caerphilly in 2001.

References

  1. ^ "Profile". ESPN Scrum.
  2. ^ "Six Nations: Mako Vunipola set for first England start". BBC Sport. 6 March 2013.
  3. ^ "Mako Vunipola of Saracens named in England squad for autumn Tests". BBC Sport. 25 October 2012.
  4. ^ "England v Italy: Vunipola brothers Mako and Billy want Mum to see their Sunday best". Daily Telegraph. 7 March 2013.
  5. ^ http://www.ponty.net/vunipola-fe-ao. {{cite web}}: Missing or empty |title= (help)