Alamanda Motuga

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Alamanda Motuga
Date of birth (1994-09-11) 11 September 1994 (age 29)
Place of birthSamoa
Height180 cm (5 ft 11 in)
Weight98 kg (216 lb; 15 st 6 lb)
Rugby union career
Position(s) Flanker
Current team Counties Manukau
Senior career
Years Team Apps (Points)
2020– Counties Manukau 8 (25)
Correct as of 5 May 2021
National team(s)
Years Team Apps (Points)
2019– Samoa 1 (0)
Correct as of 5 May 2021
National sevens team(s)
Years Team Comps
2016– Samoa Sevens 36
Correct as of 5 May 2021

Alamanda Motuga (born 11 September 1994 in Samoa)[1] is a Samoan rugby union and rugby sevens player who plays as a flanker. He has played for the Counties Manukau in the Bunnings NPC since 2020, and with Moana Pasifika since 2022.

Motuga was educated at Manurewa High School in Auckland, New Zealand.[2] He began playing rugby for Manurewa in the Counties-Manukau Amateur Federation Championship.[3] He also played rugby sevens with the Auckland Marist team.[4]

In February 2016 he was selected for the Samoa national rugby sevens team to play in the Las Vegas and Vancouver legs of the 2015–16 World Rugby Sevens Series.[4] In May 2016 he was part of the Samoan team that won the 2016 Paris Sevens.[5][6] He went on to represent Samoa in 36 sevens competitions from 2016.[7] In July 2019 he was selected for the Samoa national rugby union team for the 2019 World Rugby Pacific Nations Cup,[8] making his debut for the national side against Tonga. He performances for Samoa and Samoa Sevens earned him a call-up to the Samoa squad for the 2019 Rugby World Cup as a replacement for Afa Amosa.[9][10]

In 2020 he joined the Counties Manukau squad for the 2020 Mitre 10 Cup.[11] In November 2020 he represented Moana Pasifika in their inaugural match against the Māori All Blacks.[12] In October 2021 he signed to Moana Pacifica for the 2022 season.[13]

Reference list

  1. ^ "Alamanda Motuga". Ultimate Rugby. Retrieved 5 May 2021.
  2. ^ "Manurewa High School Newsletter" (PDF). Manurewa High School. August 2012. p. 3. Retrieved 4 June 2022.
  3. ^ "Sport: Manurewa keep hold of trophy". Stuff. 27 April 2016. Retrieved 4 June 2022.
  4. ^ a b "Pool C: New faces for Fiji and Samoa". HSBC World Sevens. 26 February 2016. Retrieved 4 June 2022.
  5. ^ "Samoa win Paris Sevens after stunning comeback against Fiji". Telegraph. 15 May 2016. Retrieved 4 June 2022.
  6. ^ "Au mo le Ta'ito'afitu i Pale na faalauiloa e le Palemia" (in Samoan). Samoa Observer. 8 May 2016. Retrieved 4 June 2022.
  7. ^ "Sport: New Samoa Sevens coach takes a long-term view". RNZ. 8 September 2020. Retrieved 5 May 2021.
  8. ^ "PNC Preview – Samoa vs Tonga". ARN. 25 July 2019. Retrieved 4 June 2022.
  9. ^ "Samoa draft replacement for injured back-row Amosa". Rugby World Cup. 26 September 2019. Retrieved 5 May 2021.
  10. ^ Thomas Airey (26 September 2019). "Motuga gets the call, Manu coach says he deserves opportunity". Samoa Observer. Retrieved 4 June 2022.
  11. ^ "2020 Counties Manukau PIC Steelers". Counties Manukau Rugby. Retrieved 10 September 2020.
  12. ^ "Moana Pasifika names side to face Māori All Blacks". allblacks.com. Retrieved 3 December 2020.
  13. ^ "Samoan Forward Pack Trio Sign for Moana Pasifika". Samoa Global News. 23 October 2021. Retrieved 4 June 2022.

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