Charlie Leaeno (born 15 February 1985) is an American Samoan 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 plays for the Lithgow Workies in the

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competition. Leaeno has previously played with the

Wakefield Trinity Wildcats Wakefield Trinity is a professional rugby league club in Wakefield, West Yorkshire, England, that plays in the Super League. One of the original twenty-two clubs that formed the Northern Rugby Football Union in 1895, between 1999 and 2016 the c ...

in the

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, the

Canterbury-Bankstown Bulldogs The Canterbury-Bankstown Bulldogs are an Australian professional rugby league football club based in Belmore, a suburb in the Canterbury-Bankstown region of Sydney. They compete in the NRL Telstra Premiership, as well as competitions facilita ...

in the

National Rugby League The National Rugby League (NRL) is an Australasian rugby league club competition which contains clubs from New South Wales, Queensland, Victoria, the Australian Capital Territory and New Zealand. The NRL formed in 1998 as a joint partnership ...

and the

St. George Illawarra Dragons The St. George Illawarra Dragons is an Australian professional rugby league football club, representing both the Illawarra and St George regions of New South Wales. The club has competed in the National Rugby League since 1999 after a joint-ve ...

and the

Newtown Jets The Newtown Jets are an Australian rugby league football club based in Newtown, a suburb of Sydney's inner west. They currently compete in the NSW Cup competition, having left the top grade after the 1983 NSWRFL season. The Jets' home ground ...

in the

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also had a stint with the

Parramatta Two Blues Western Sydney Two Blues Rugby, formerly Parramatta Two Blues Rugby, is a rugby union club based in Parramatta, the second CBD of Sydney, Australia. The club was formed in 1879 and competes in the Shute Shield run by the New South Wales Rugby ...

in rugby union. Leaeno primarily plays as a .

Rugby League Career

In 2007, Leaeno made his first grade début in the

with the

St George Illawarra Dragons The St. George Illawarra Dragons is an Australian professional rugby league football club, representing both the Illawarra and St George regions of New South Wales. The club has competed in the National Rugby League since 1999 after a joint- ...

, playing six matches in the year. In 2008, he joined Canterbury-Bankstown, staying with the club for two seasons.

Super League

In 2010, Leaeno signed with the

in the

. It was confirmed that Leaeno would make his début for the Wakefield Trinity Wildcats against the Wigan Warriors on 13 June after being selected in the 19-man squad. Leaeno quickly became a big hit with the Wakefield Trinity Wildcats fans was given the nickname "Grond".

Return to Australia

Without able to re-join the

after his stint in the Super League, Leaeno joined the

Kingsgrove Colts The Kingsgrove Colts Rugby League Football Club is an Australian rugby league football club based in Kingsgrove, New South Wales formed in 1955. They are in the St George junior rugby league and currently play in the Sydney Combined Competition ...

in the

Ron Massey Cup The Ron Massey Cup (formerly known as the Bundaberg Red Cup and Jim Beam Cup) is a semi-professional development level rugby league competition in New South Wales (NSW), Australia, run jointly by the New South Wales Rugby League (NSWRL) and the ...

, a lower based competition in New South Wales.

Representative career

Leaeno was selected to play for

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in 2005.

References

External links

Bulldogs profile
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