Vili Ala'alatoa (born August 9, 1962) is a Samoan rugby union player. He plays as a prop. He played for West Harbour RFC, and then, for

Manly RUFC Manly Rugby Union Football Club is a rugby union club based in Manly, a suburb of Sydney. The club was formed in 1883 and competes in the New South Wales Rugby Union competitions, the Charter Hall Shute Shield. Manly, known as the Marlins, pl ...

Career

Ala'alatoa debuted for

Western Samoa Samoa, officially the Independent State of Samoa; sm, Sāmoa, and until 1997 known as Western Samoa, is a Polynesian island country consisting of two main islands ( Savai'i and Upolu); two smaller, inhabited islands ( Manono and Apolima); a ...

in the test match against

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at Lansdowne Road in 1988. He was a member of the Western Samoan team during the

1991 Rugby World Cup The 1991 Rugby World Cup was the second edition of the Rugby World Cup, and was jointly hosted by England, Scotland, Wales, Ireland and France: at the time, the five European countries who participated in the Five Nations Championship. This was ...

. His last international for Western Samoa was a test against

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in 1992, at Suva.

Personal life

A fan of

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, Vili is father of

Michael Ala'alatoa Michael Savea Ala'alatoa (born 28 August 1991) is a rugby union professional player who currently plays as a prop for Leinster in the united rugby championship and Heineken Champions Cup competitions. Early life Born into a rugby household wh ...

, who plays for

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and

Allan Alaalatoa Allan Ala'alatoa (born 28 January 1994) is an Australian rugby union professional player who plays as a prop for the in Super Rugby and the Australian rugby union team, the Wallabies. Ala'alatoa's father Vili is a fan of cricket and named him ...

, who plays for the Brumbies and

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, who was named after Australia cricket captain Allan Border. Ala'alatoa was Senior Prefect at Ashfield Boys High School (Australia) in 1982. His nickname was ‘Shoebox’ because of the size of his feet.

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Vili Alalatoa International Statistics
1962 births Living people Samoan rugby union players Samoan expatriates in Australia Rugby union props Samoa international rugby union players 1991 Rugby World Cup players Manly RUFC players {{Samoa-rugbyunion-bio-stub