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Mafi Kumase
Mafi is the name of: *Alfie Mafi (born 1988), Tongan rugby player *Lifeimi Mafi (born 1982), Tongan rugby player *Soane Patita Paini Mafi (born 1961), Cardinal; Bishop of Tonga *Tahereh Mafi (born 1988), American author of Iranian descent * Winston Mafi (born 1980), Tongan rugby player *Amanaki Mafi (born 1990), Tongan rugby union player who plays for the Japanese national side * Alex Mafi (born 1996), Australian rugby union player who plays for Queensland Reds * Falamani Mafi (born 1971), Tongan former rugby union player * Mateaki Mafi (born 1972), Tongan rugby football player who represented Tonga at the 1995 Rugby League World Cup, and at the 1992 Summer Olympics as a 200m sprinter * Matt Mafi (born 1993), Australian rugby union hooker who currently plays for Brisbane City in Australia's National Rugby Championship * Steve Mafi (born 1989), Australian-born rugby player who plays for the Western Force and Tonga * Parvaneh Mafi (born 1957), Iranian reformist politician and a member ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Alfie Mafi
Alfie Mafi (born 8 June 1988) is an Australian professional rugby union football player of Tongan descent. His usual position is wing. Mafi has represented Australia in rugby sevens and at under-19 level at the IRB World Championships. He previously played Super Rugby for the , , and . He currently plays in the French Top 14 league for Brive. Early life Mafi was born in Tongatapu, Tonga and moved to Australia with his family in 1997. He attended Granville Boys High School in Sydney and played for the Australian Schoolboys rugby team in 2006. He is the younger brother of Winston Mafi. Rugby career Mafi was a member of the New South Wales Waratahs squad in 2007, and played for the Sydney Fleet in the Australian Rugby Championship. He played for Australia at the 2007 Under 19 Rugby World Championship in Belfast in 2007 and scored the try that sealed the win over Wales in the play-off for third place. He was also selected for the Australian Sevens squad during the 2007–08 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lifeimi Mafi
Lifeimi Mafi (born 15 August 1982) is a Tongan-born, New Zealand former rugby union player. Career in New Zealand Born in Nukuʻalofa, Tonga, Mafi initially played his club rugby with Kia Toa (Kia Toa is a Māori term which translates to "be brave"), based in the suburb of Awapuni, Palmerston North. It is one of the oldest clubs in Manawatu, and produced former Munster fullback Christian Cullen, Bristol number 8 Dan Ward-Smith, and former Black Ferns captain Farah Palmer. He represented Manawatu in 2003, before moving to Taranaki in 2004 in time to play the British and Irish Lions in 2005. He made 25 appearances for Taranaki, and was named their "Back of the Season" in 2006. Mafi was also called into the Hurricanes squad in 2006 as replacement for the injured Conrad Smith, although he never took the field in a Super Rugby match. Mafi represented New Zealand at U19 and U21 level. He played alongside players of the calibre of Ben Atiga, Jimmy Cowan, John Afoa, Stephen Donald ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Soane Patita Paini Mafi
Soane Patita Paini Mafi () (born 19 December 1961) is the fourth Roman Catholic Bishop of Tonga. At the age of 53, on 14 February 2015, he was appointed by Pope Francis as the first ever cardinal from Tonga and he became on that date the youngest member of the College of CardinalsChristopher Lamb, "Red hats for a global Church", ''The Tablet'', 8 January 2014 (Retrieved 11 January 2015) with the title of assigned to the of [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tahereh Mafi
Tahereh Mafi (November 9, 1988) is an American author based in Santa Monica, California. She is known for writing young adult fiction. Early life Mafi was born on November 9, 1988, in a small town in Connecticut. She is the youngest child of her family and has four older brothers. Mafi's parents are immigrants from Iran. At age 12 she moved with her family to Northern California and at age 14 they moved to Orange County. Mafi graduated from University High School in Irvine, California. She later graduated from Soka University of America in Aliso Viejo, California. She has varying levels of competency in eight different languages. She studied abroad in Barcelona, Spain for a semester in college. During this trip she had the opportunity to be fully immersed in the Spanish language. Career Mafi stated that before writing her first novel, '' Shatter Me'', she wrote five manuscripts in order to better understand how to write a book. ''Shatter Me'' was published on November 15, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Winston Mafi
Winston Churchill Mafi (born 21 March 1980 in Nukualofa, Tonga) is a Tongan rugby union footballer who usually plays an outside centre. He currently plays for the Rugby Club I Cavalieri Prato club in the Italian Top12. He is the older brother of Alfred Mafi. In 2000 and 2001 he played for Penrith, before taking two years off to work as a missionary in Victoria. After playing for Sydney University, he was recruited for the Waratahs for their 2004 tour of Argentina. Following the tour he signed a two-year contract. In May 2006 he injured his knee while playing for Eastwood in the Shute Shield The Shute Shield is a semi-professional rugby union competition in Sydney, Australia. It is the premier club competition in New South Wales. The Shute Shield is awarded to the winning team from the Sydney premiership grand final held at the end ... final and was sidelined. He was released from the team in 2007. In June 2010 he extended his contract with Cavalieri. References Externa ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Amanaki Mafi
Amanaki Lelei Mafi (born 11 January 1990) is a Tongan-born, Japanese professional rugby union player who currently plays as a number 8 for the Japanese Sunwolves, Japan national rugby union team and the Bath Rugby Union team for a short period of time. Debut Mafi represented Tonga U20 in the 2009 Junior World Cup, before moving to Hanazono University in Japan in 2010. After a breakout first season in the Top League for NTT Communications Shining Arcs, Mafi was named in both the Tonga and Japan squad for the 2014 November tests. He opted to play for Japan though, and made an immediate impact which was noted as 'pretty special' by coach Eddie Jones. Mafi was then sidelined for eight months with a career-threatening dislocated hip injury but recovered just in time to make it back into the 2015 Rugby World Cup squad, where he again impressed. Following the 2015–16 Top League season, he moved to England to join for Bath on a short -term loan deal where he was described a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Alex Mafi
Joshua Alekisio Mafi born 7 November 1996 in Brisbane, Australia, is an Australian rugby union player who plays at Hooker for Queensland Reds in Super Rugby. Career After three years of First XV experience at St. Joseph's Nudgee College from 2012 to 2014, Bond University Awarded him the John Eales Rugby Scholarship to help keep him in Gold Coast rugby. During the 2015 Season playing for Bond University he signed for Queensland Country for the 2015 National Rugby Championship Mafi earned himself a contract with the Queensland Reds The Queensland Reds is the rugby union team for the Australian state of Queensland that competes in the Southern Hemisphere's Super Rugby competition. Prior to 1996, they were a representative team selected from the rugby union club competitions ... for 3 years starting in 2016. Super Rugby statistics References {{DEFAULTSORT:Mafi, Alex Australian rugby union players 1996 births Living people Rugby union hookers Queensland Coun ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Falamani Mafi
Falamani Mafi (born 6 March 1971, in Kanokupolu) is a Tongan former rugby union player. He played as lock Career His first cap for Tonga was against Australia, in Brisbane, on 4 July 1993. He was also part of the 1995 Rugby World Cup Tonga squad coached by Fakahau Valu, where Mafi played two matches in the tournament. During the match against France, Mafi stomped the French player Philippe Benetton, however, his team mate Feleti Mahoni was sent off instead. Mafi also played in the 1999 Rugby World Cup, playing against New Zealand, Italy and England England is a country that is part of the United Kingdom. It shares land borders with Wales to its west and Scotland to its north. The Irish Sea lies northwest and the Celtic Sea to the southwest. It is separated from continental Europe b ..., the latter being his last international cap for Tonga. Notes External linksFalamani Mafi international stats {{DEFAULTSORT:Mafi, Falamani 1971 births Living people Rugby un ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mateaki Mafi
Mateaki Fonnama'atonga Mafi, also known by the nickname of "Matti", is a Tongan dual-code international rugby union and rugby league footballer, and sprinter. He played representative rugby union (RU) for rugby league and representative rugby league (RL) for Tonga, most notably at the 1995 Rugby League World Cup, and participated at the 1992 Summer Olympics as a 200m sprinter. Athletic career Mafi was a 200m sprinter and as a 19-year-old represented Tonga at the 1992 Summer Olympics in Barcelona. He finished fifth in his heat and failed to make the quarterfinals. Rugby union career Mafi was a rugby union player in the Tongan domestic competition. Rugby league career Mafi switched to rugby league in 1995, joining the Warrington Wolves in England. He was named in the Tongan squad for the 1995 World Cup. Along with Willie Swann and Martin Dermott, Mafi was sacked by Warrington early in the 1997 season after the club had a poor start to the season. [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Matt Mafi
Matt Mafi (born 26 May 1993) is an Australian rugby union hooker who currently plays for in Australia's National Rugby Championship. He has also previously represented Super Rugby side, the Queensland Reds. Early/provincial career Mafi was born in Sydney, but attended school in Brisbane at St Joseph's College, Nudgee. He was picked to represent Queensland at schoolboy level in 2008 and played his early junior rugby with the Sunnybank rugby club. He then moved back to Sydney to attend Sydney University where he played some Shute Shield rugby and also won the Colts Premiership with them in 2011. After graduating university it was back to Queensland again this time to play in the local Queensland Premier Rugby competition with Brothers and later in the National Rugby Championship with Brisbane City with whom he was a champion in both 2014 and 2015. Super Rugby career After 2 successful seasons with Brisbane City, Mafi was called into the Reds Super Rugby squad during ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Steve Mafi
Sitiveni O. Mafi (born 9 December 1989) is a Tongan rugby union player. He plays in the lock and occasionally flanker position for the English Premiership Rugby side, London Irish. Mafi also represents Tonga at international level. Mafi previously played for the Leicester Tigers and New South Wales Waratahs. Mafi played as a replacement during the 2013 Premiership final as Leicester defeated Northampton Saints. In the final of the 2017–18 Top 14 season he scored a try after coming on as a replacement as Castres defeated Montpellier. He is the grandson of former Tonga captain Sione Mafi Pahulu. He attended Westfields Sports High School and played his Junior rugby at Parramatta Two Blues in Sydneys west. In 2007 he played for the Australian Schoolboys. Super Rugby statistics Honours Club Leicester Tigers *Premiership Rugby: 2012–13 Castres *Top 14 The Top 14 () is a professional rugby union club competition that is played in France. Created in 1892, the Top ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Parvaneh Mafi
Parvaneh Mafi ( fa, پروانه مافی) is an Iranian reformist politician and a member of the Parliament of Iran representing Tehran, Rey, Shemiranat and Eslamshahr electoral district. Career She was formerly governor of Shemiranat County for four years and secretary of management committee at Expediency Discernment Council. She is a women's rights Women's rights are the rights and entitlements claimed for women and girls worldwide. They formed the basis for the women's rights movement in the 19th century and the feminist movements during the 20th and 21st centuries. In some countries, ... activist and has authored works advocating women's empowerment. Electoral history References 1957 births Living people People from Kermanshah Executives of Construction Party politicians Iranian women's rights activists Members of the 10th Islamic Consultative Assembly Members of the Women's fraction of Islamic Consultative Assembly Association of the Women of the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
