Steve Mafi
Appearance
Full name | Sitiveni O. Mafi | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Date of birth | 9 December 1989 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Place of birth | Fairfield, Australia | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Height | 2.01 m (6 ft 7 in) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Weight | 112 kg (17 st 9 lb; 247 lb) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
School | Westfields Sports High School | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Rugby union career | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Sitiveni O. Mafi (born 9 December 1989) is a Tongan rugby union player. He plays in the lock and occasionally flanker position for the English Premiership Rugby side, London Irish. Mafi also represents Tonga at international level.
Mafi previously played for the Leicester Tigers and New South Wales Waratahs.[1][2][3] Mafi played as a replacement during the 2013 Premiership final as Leicester defeated Northampton Saints.[4] He is the grandson of former Tonga captain Sione Mafi Pahulu.[5] He attended Westfields Sports High School and played his Junior rugby at Parramatta Two Blues in Sydneys west. In 2007 he played for the Australian Schoolboys.
Super Rugby statistics
- As of 25 July 2016[6]
Season | Team | Games | Starts | Sub | Mins | Tries | Cons | Pens | Drops | Points | Yel | Red |
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2015 | Template:Rut Force | 16 | 13 | 3 | 1157 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 5 | 1 | 0 |
2016 | Template:Rut Force | 10 | 5 | 5 | 404 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
Total | 26 | 18 | 8 | 1561 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 5 | 1 | 0 |
References
- ^ "Aviva Premiership Rugby - Gloucester Rugby". web page. Premier Rugby. Archived from the original on 16 June 2012. Retrieved 3 September 2011.
- ^ "Leicester swoop for Mafi". Scrum.com. 31 August 2010. Retrieved 7 January 2011.
- ^ http://www.leicestertigers.com/rugby/leicester_tigers_senior_squad.php?player=97551&includeref=dynamic
- ^ "Aviva Premiership final: Leicester 37-17 Northampton". BBC. 25 May 2013. Retrieved 9 February 2020.
- ^ https://www.independent.co.uk/sport/rugby/rugby-union/club-rugby/meet-steve-mafi-the-tigers-tongan-hitman-7789264.html
- ^ "Player Statistics". its rugby. Retrieved 26 July 2016.
External links
- ARU profile
- Steve Mafi at ESPNscrum
- Steve Mafi at ItsRugby.co.uk
Categories:
- Use dmy dates from January 2012
- Living people
- 1989 births
- Australian rugby union players
- Tonga international rugby union players
- Leicester Tigers players
- Greater Sydney Rams players
- Rugby union locks
- People from New South Wales
- Australian people of Tongan descent
- Australian expatriate rugby union players
- Expatriate rugby union players in England
- Expatriate rugby union players in France
- Australian expatriate sportspeople in England
- Western Force players
- Castres Olympique players
- Tongan rugby union biography stubs