Personal information
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Born |
Bankstown, New South Wales, Australia |
14 February 1991 |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Height | 184 cm (6 ft 0 in) | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Weight | 108 kg (17 st 0 lb) | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Playing information
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Position | Centre, Wing, Second-row | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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As of 29 June 2015 Source: |
Sami Sauiluma (born 14 February 1991) is an Australian professional rugby league footballer who has played in the National Rugby League. He primarily plays at centre and wing, but can also fill in at second-row and previously played for the Canberra Raiders and Cronulla-Sutherland Sharks.
Born in Bankstown, New South Wales, Sauiluma is of Samoan descent and played his junior rugby league for the Woden Valley Rams, before being signed by the Canberra Raiders.
Sauiluma is a cousin of Wests Tigers player Tim Simona.
From 2009 to 2011, Sauiluma played for the Canberra Raiders' NYC team, before moving on to the Raiders' New South Wales Cup team, Mount Pritchard Mounties in 2012.
In Round 15 of the 2013 NRL season, Sauiluma made his NRL debut for the Raiders against the Wests Tigers. On 19 September, he was named in the Samoan train-on squad for the 2013 Rugby League World Cup, but didn't make the final cut.
On 21 September, Sauiluma was named at centre in the 2014 New South Wales Cup Team of the Year. On 25 September, he signed a 1-year contract with the Cronulla-Sutherland Sharks starting in 2015.