Naipolioni Nalaga

Napolioni Nalaga

Personal information
Nickname	black beast 'Naps', 'animal
Born	Napolioni Vonowale Nalaga (1986-04-07) 7 April 1986 (age 31) Sigatoka, Fiji
Height	1.91 m (6 ft 3 in)
Weight	109 kg (17 st 2 lb; 240 lb)
Playing information
Rugby union
Position	Wing, Flanker, Centre
Club Years Team Pld T G FG P 2007–10 Clermont Auvergne 90 61 0 0 305 2012–12 Western Force 11 2 0 0 10 2012–15 Clermont Auvergne 80 43 0 0 215 2015–17 Lyon 32 22 0 0 110 2017 London Irish Total 213 128 0 0 640 Representative Years Team Pld T G FG P 2009–- Fiji 13 8 0 0 40
As of 02 June 2017

Napolioni Vonowale Nalaga (born 7 April 1986) is a Fijian rugby union footballer. He plays as a wing, flanker and Centre for London Irish. He is nicknamed Napoleon or Naps or Napo. His father, Kavekini Nalaga also represented Fiji in the 80's and just like his son, he played on the wing.

Born in Sigatoka, Fiji, Nalaga first played as a wing for the Fiji Under 19 team to the Under 19 Rugby World Championship where he notched 7 tries in 3 games for the Fiji team. He also helped his Nadroga team win the U21 competition in the Digicel Cup for 2 years in a row. He was later selected to play for the Fiji U21 team to the 2006 Under 21 Rugby World Championship in France where Fiji finished 9th overall. He played as a Centre in the tournament. He also made his mark for the Nadroga senior team playing in the Digicel Cup and the Farebrother Sullivan cup. He was selected into the Fiji sevens team by the then coach Waisale Serevi who was impressed with the youngster for the first leg of the 2006–07 IRB Sevens World Series.

On 11 July 2014, he married his Longtime sweetheart Neomai Baleisuva at his hometown and village Nasama in Sigatoka, the mother of his three kids.

After his first season with the Fiji sevens team, he was given a contract to play for the ASM Clermont Auvergne in the 2007/2008 season alongside other Fijians, Vilimoni Delasau and Seremaia Bai where he finished the season as the leading try-scorer in the competition with 16 tries, 3 better than the previous year, top-try scorer, and captain, Aurélien Rougerie.