Mathew Vaea
| Date of birth | 12 September 1966 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Place of birth | Motootua, Samoa | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| School | Wanganui Collegiate School | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Occupation(s) | Clerk | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Tuala Mathew M. Vaea (born 12 September 1966 in Motootua) is a Samoan rugby union player. He plays as a scrum-half. He was the manager of the Manu Samoa at the 2011 Rugby World Cup.
Career
His international debut was during a test match against Tonga, at Nuku'alofa, on 28 May 1991. He was part of the 1991 Rugby World Cup roster. His last match was against Scotland, at Murrayfield, on 18 November 1995. During the 2011 Rugby World he was the manager of the Samoa national rugby union team, but his home village fined him 100 pigs for "bad behaviour" as well as treating the campaign in New Zealand like a "holiday".[1] As of March 2018, Vaea has been appointed as CEO of the Samoa Association of Sports and National Olympic Committee.[2]
References
- ^ agencies, By Telegraph staff and. "Samoa team manager Mathew Vaea fined 100 pigs for bad behaviour at Rugby World Cup".
- ^ "Tuala is S.A.S.N.O.C's new Chief Executive Officer". Samoa Observer. Retrieved 2019-05-05.
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