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Kirisome Auva'a

Kirisome Auva'a
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Personal information
Nickname Somi
Born (1992-02-23) 23 February 1992 (age 25)
Motootua, Samoa
Height 186 cm (6 ft 1 in)
Weight 100 kg (15 st 10 lb)
Playing information
Position Centre
Club
Years Team Pld T G FG P
2014–16 South Sydney 39 12 0 0 48
2017– Parramatta Eels 4 2 0 0 8
Total 43 14 0 0 56
Representative
Years Team Pld T G FG P
2016 Samoa 1 0 0 0 0
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Kirisome Auva'a (born 23 February 1992) is a Samoan professional rugby league footballer who currently plays for Parramatta Eels in the National Rugby League. A Samoan national representative, he plays at centre and won the 2014 NRL Premiership with the Rabbitohs.

In January 2014 he violently attacked an ex-girlfriend. Pleading guilty, he was given a two-year good behaviour bond. The NRL suspended him for nine months and put him on a counselling programme for various issues.

Born in Motootua, Samoa, Auva'a moved to New Zealand and played his junior football for the Otahuhu Rovers. Auva'a then moved to Australia as a teenager and attended Ipswich Grammar School in Queensland and played rugby league for the Norths Ipswich Tigers. He represented the Australian A Schoolboys rugby union side.

Auva'a was signed by the Melbourne Storm, playing in their Under-20s team from 2010 to 2012 before joining the Storm's first grade squad. While playing for Melbourne's NYC side, Auva'a represented Queensland Under 18's in 2010, making him eligible for the senior Queensland Origin team, and was the 18th man for Queensland in the inaugural Under 20's Origin game in 2012.

In 2013, Auva'a played for the Cronulla-Sutherland Sharks in their 2013 New South Wales Cup Grand Final win over the Windsor Wolves. Auva'a is the cousin of fellow South Sydney Rabbitohs teammate Hymel Hunt.


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