Sione Fakaʻosilea (born 13 January 1987) is a
rugby union
Rugby union football, commonly known simply as rugby union in English-speaking countries and rugby 15/XV in non-English-speaking world, Anglophone Europe, or often just rugby, is a Contact sport#Terminology, close-contact team sport that orig ...
player from
Tonga
Tonga, officially the Kingdom of Tonga, is an island country in Polynesia, part of Oceania. The country has 171 islands, of which 45 are inhabited. Its total surface area is about , scattered over in the southern Pacific Ocean. accordin ...
. He plays in the
centre position for professional
SuperLiga club
Baia Mare.
He played for the
Tonga national rugby sevens team in 2013 and went on to play for
Romania's national 15-a-side team, making his international debut at the
2017 Rugby Europe Championship in a match against the Russian
Medvedi.
However, after featuring in 13 internationals for Romania, including six in
Rugby World Cup qualification matches for the
2019 Rugby World Cup
The 2019 Rugby World Cup () was the ninth edition of the Rugby World Cup, the quadrennial world championship for men's rugby union teams. It was hosted in Japan from 20 September to 2 November in 12 venues all across the country. The opening matc ...
, questions were raised over Fakaʻosilea's eligibility to represent Romania.
As Fakaʻosilea had previously represented Tonga in
Sevens rugby at the
2013 Gold Coast Sevens, this rendered him ineligible to represent Romania under
World Rugby
World Rugby is the governing body for the sport of rugby union. World Rugby organises the Rugby World Cup every four years, the sport's most recognised and most profitable competition. It also organises a number of other international competit ...
rules on switching nationalities.
Honours
;
Baia Mare
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SuperLiga: 2014
References
External links
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1987 births
Living people
Romanian rugby union players
Romania international rugby union players
Tongan rugby union players
Tongan emigrants to Romania
Romanian people of Tongan descent
CSM Știința Baia Mare players
Rugby union centres
Place of birth missing (living people)
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