Alisi Tupuailei

Alisi Tupuailei

Birth name	Alisi Tupuailei
Date of birth	(1982-02-01) 1 February 1982
Place of birth	Manunu, Samoa
Height	187 cm (6 ft 2 in)
Weight	116 kg (18 st 4 lb; 256 lb)
School	Linwood College
Rugby union career
Position(s) Centre, Wing Amateur team(s) Years Team Apps (Points) New Brighton () Senior career Years Team Apps (Points) 2001–2003 2004–2010 2010–2012 2013–14 Canterbury Honda Heat Canon Eagles Navy SC 12 (80) International career Years Team Apps (Points) 2001 2009-11 New Zealand U21 Japan 20 (100)

Alisi Tupuailei (born 1 February 1982) is a Samoa-born Japanese professional rugby union player who currently plays for Honda Heat and the Japan national rugby union team.

Career

Tupuailei played for Canterbury in the provincial games. He has represented Japan in both sevens and the main code. He made his Rugby World Cup debut in 2011. He was part of the Japanese squad to the 2012 Hong Kong Sevens. The greatest opponent Alisi has met thus far in his career, was in a recent match against the aging Sumner Sharks at the paddock known as St Leonards Square, where his side (the New Brighton Taniwha) were unlucky to only draw in adverse conditions. His most feared opponent is Adrian Collis, but despite his best efforts management decided to keep him off the field. Had he got on in the rage he was in, who knows Alisi's career might have been in trouble....

External links

• Alisi Tupuailei at ESPNscrum