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Olajuwon Noa
Olajuwon Noa (born 28 December 1989) is a Samoan rugby union player who plays for the in the United Rugby Championship. His playing position is Flanker (rugby union), flanker. Noa joined the Sharks ahead of the 2021–22 United Rugby Championship, having previously played semi-professionally in the Shute Shield for Newcastle and Hunter Rugby Union, NHRU Wildfires. Noa also represented both the and in the National Rugby Championship. In 2021, Noa won his first caps for Samoa national rugby union team, Samoa in their 2023 Rugby World Cup – Oceania qualification, 2023 Rugby World Cup qualifiers against Tonga national rugby union team, Tonga. Reference list External linksitsrugby.co.uk profile 1989 births Samoan rugby union players Samoa international rugby union players Living people Rugby union flankers Melbourne Rising players Canberra Vikings players Sharks (rugby union) players Sharks (Currie Cup) players Aviron Bayonnais players New Orleans Gold players Expatriate ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
New Zealand
New Zealand ( mi, Aotearoa ) is an island country in the southwestern Pacific Ocean. It consists of two main landmasses—the North Island () and the South Island ()—and over 700 smaller islands. It is the sixth-largest island country by area, covering . New Zealand is about east of Australia across the Tasman Sea and south of the islands of New Caledonia, Fiji, and Tonga. The country's varied topography and sharp mountain peaks, including the Southern Alps, owe much to tectonic uplift and volcanic eruptions. New Zealand's capital city is Wellington, and its most populous city is Auckland. The islands of New Zealand were the last large habitable land to be settled by humans. Between about 1280 and 1350, Polynesians began to settle in the islands and then developed a distinctive Māori culture. In 1642, the Dutch explorer Abel Tasman became the first European to sight and record New Zealand. In 1840, representatives of the United Kingdom and Māori chiefs ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |