Albert Fulivai (born 25 June 1968) is an Australian former

rugby union Rugby union, commonly known simply as rugby, is a close-contact team sport that originated at Rugby School in the first half of the 19th century. One of the two codes of rugby football, it is based on running with the ball in hand. In its m ...

and professional

rugby league Rugby league football, commonly known as just rugby league and sometimes football, footy, rugby or league, is a full-contact sport played by two teams of thirteen players on a rectangular field measuring 68 metres (75 yards) wide and 112 ...

footballer who played in the 1980s and 1990s. He played representative level rugby union (RU) for

Australian Schoolboys The Australian Schoolboys refer to junior teams that represent Australia in various sports. The name is mainly used in rugby league, rugby union and baseball Baseball is a bat-and-ball sport played between two teams of nine players ...

and Australia national under-21's, and representative level rugby league (RL) for

Tonga Tonga (, ; ), officially the Kingdom of Tonga ( to, Puleʻanga Fakatuʻi ʻo Tonga), is a Polynesian country and archipelago. The country has 171 islands – of which 45 are inhabited. Its total surface area is about , scattered over in ...

, and at club level for the

Canberra Raiders The Canberra Raiders are an Australian professional rugby league football club based in the national capital city of Canberra, Australian Capital Territory. They have competed in Australasia's elite rugby league competition, the National Rugby ...

, as a or .

Playing career

Fulivai attended St Edmund's College and originally played

. In 1986 he was the vice captain of the Australian Schoolboys team that toured Belgium, The Netherlands and the British Isles. Fulivai then toured New Zealand with the Australian under-21 side. He then switched to

and joined the

. He made his first grade debut in 1993, against the

Illawarra Steelers The Illawarra Steelers are an Australian rugby league football club based in the city of Wollongong, New South Wales. The club competed in Australia's top-level rugby league competition from 1982 until 1998. On the 13th of December 1980, the ...

. Fulivai played forty four first grade matches for the club over six seasons. He was a non-playing reserve in Canberra's 1994 grand final win. Fulivai played for

at the

1994 Pacific Cup The 1994 Pacific Cup was the seventh staging of the Pacific Cup. It is a rugby league tournament held between Pacific teams. The tournament was hosted by Fiji and eventually won by Tonga, who defeated the hosts 34 - 11 in the final. Squads Befo ...

, which Tonga won. In 1995 he was picked for Tonga for the

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but had to withdraw due to injury.Coffey and Wood ''The Kiwis: 100 Years of International Rugby League'' TEAM-BY-TEAM GUIDE TO CENTENARY celebrations
''The Independent'', 6 October 1995

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Fulivai, Albert 1968 births Australian sportspeople of Tongan descent Australian rugby league players Australian rugby union players Canberra Raiders players Living people Rugby league centres Rugby league wingers Tonga national rugby league team players Tongan rugby league players Place of birth missing (living people)