Feʻao Vunipola

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Fe'ao Vunipola
Birth nameFe'ao Moe Laru Vunipola
Date of birth (1969-01-06) 6 January 1969 (age 55)
Height5 ft 9 in (1.75 m)
Weight234 lb (16 st 10 lb; 106 kg)
Notable relative(s)Elisi Vunipola (brother)
Manu Vunipola (brother)
Mako Vunipola (son)
Billy Vunipola (son)
Occupation(s)Architect[1]
Rugby union career
Position(s) Hooker
Senior career
Years Team Apps (Points)
1988-1998
1998–1999
1999–2001
2001–2003		 Toa-ko-Ma'afu RFC
Pontypool
Pontypridd
Caerphilly
24
44 (?)
8
(55)
(?)
(5)
Provincial / State sides
Years Team Apps (Points)
1988-1998 Tongatapu[2] ()
National team(s)
Years Team Apps (Points)
1988–2001 Tonga 34 (15)

Fe'ao Moe Lotu Vunipola (born 6 January 1969) is a Tongan former international rugby union player who participated at the 1995 Rugby World Cup and 1999 Rugby World Cup.[3] He is the father of Mako Vunipola[4] and Billy Vunipola,[5] and is married to Rev. Iesinga Vunipola, Methodist minister and chaplain to the UK Tongan community.[6] He moved to Wales in 1998 to sign with Pontypool, and in 1999 joined up with Pontypridd.[7] He left to join neighbours Caerphilly in 2001.

References

  1. ^ Photo of the Tonga 1991 squad Archived 6 November 2021 at the Wayback Machine on The Tonga Chronicle
  2. ^ Photo of the Tonga 1991 squad Archived 6 November 2021 at the Wayback Machine on The Tonga Chronicle
  3. ^ "Profile". ESPN Scrum.
  4. ^ "Six Nations: Mako Vunipola set for first England start". BBC Sport. 6 March 2013.
  5. ^ "Mako Vunipola of Saracens named in England squad for autumn Tests". BBC Sport. 25 October 2012.
  6. ^ "England v Italy: Vunipola brothers Mako and Billy want Mum to see their Sunday best". Daily Telegraph. 7 March 2013.
  7. ^ "Vunipola, Fe'ao". Archived from the original on 16 March 2016.
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