Iosia Soliola

Iosia Soliola

Personal information
Full name	Iasa Losia Soliola
Nickname	Sia
Born	(1986-08-04) 4 August 1986 (age 30) Auckland, New Zealand
Height	1.82 m (6 ft 0 in)
Weight	107 kg (16 st 12 lb)
Playing information
Position	Second-row, Centre, Lock
Club Years Team Pld T G FG P 2005–09 Sydney Roosters 92 22 0 0 88 2010–14 St. Helens 111 30 0 0 120 2015– Canberra Raiders 37 10 0 0 36 Total 240 62 0 0 244 Representative Years Team Pld T G FG P 2006–09 New Zealand 12 5 0 0 20 2011–13 Exiles 4 0 0 0 0 2013 Samoa 4 0 0 0 0
As of 31 July 2016 Source: Rugby League Project & NRL Stats

Iosia Soliola (born 4 August 1986) is a New Zealand professional rugby league footballer for the Canberra Raiders of the National Rugby League. A New Zealand and Samoa national representative second-rower or centre, he previously played for the Sydney Roosters of Australasia's National Rugby League and has also gained selection for Super League's Exiles rugby league team since his move to St Helens, with whom he won the 2014 Super League championship where he scored a try in his final game for the club.

Soliola is of Samoan descent. After making his debut in Jersey Flegg, Soliola moved onto Premier League in which he won a premiership with the Roosters in 2004.

In 2005, Soliola made his NRL debut for the Roosters against South Sydney and went on to play 19 games for the club that season, crossing the line 6 times and making more tackles than any other centre in the game that year with 19.7 per game.

He was chosen to make his international debut at the age of 19 for New Zealand in the Tri-nations series of 2005, however was forced to pull out due to injury.

Soliola then went on to represent New Zealand in the 2006 Tri-nations tournament. In 5 games, Soliola scored 4 tries including a double against the Australians at the Telstra Dome in Melbourne.