Viliame Waqaseduadua (born 23 April 1983 in

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) is a

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player, usually as a

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. He plays for the

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. He is simply known as Vili or Waga. Started playing his schoolboy rugby for Ratu Sukuna Memorial School in the annual

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competition, the holy grail for secondary schools rugby in Fiji. He helped his team reach the semi-finals in 2001 where they lost to eventual winners

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. It was here that he was scouted by rugby scouts and offered a scholarship to attend

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in New Zealand. He also found success here as their 1st XV also reached final of the

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in 2002 and shared a draw with

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for the title and the coveted Moascar Cup Waga is tall and weighs . He starred for the North Harbour team in the

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competition. He first played rugby for the Poverty Bay team in the third division, where he single-handedly took the team to win the third division title. He made his provincial debut for Poverty Bay in 2004 against

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, where, despite his team going down, his skills were already evident. He has played 28 provincial matches to date, 7 of which for Poverty Bay and the rest for North Harbour. He has scored 20 tries for both teams. He made his

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debut for the

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against the Highlanders in 2006 and throughout the

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, he played 8 times for the

, scoring 1 try. He has also played in the

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for the

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team. In 2007, he was recruited by the franchise he made his debut against, the Highlanders. In 2008, he was overlooked by his home province and picked up by the Waikato Chiefs, out of the draft. The highlight of his career to date was in 2006, when single-handedly won the

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from Canterbury in 2006, scoring 2 tries. The All Black coaches did not appreciate his skills and he signed a contract with French

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side

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in 2009.Noon and Perry join English exodus to France
In 2009, he represented New Zealand at the

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, coming back o the team as a senior player, hoping to pass on some of his knowledge of the game to the younger players, four years after last playing in the Sevens tournament. In 2011, he returned to New Zealand, hoping to remind the national selectors of what they had been missing in the last couple of years while he was away dazzling French crowds with his array of sublime attacking skills. He played for Auckland against Otago in the Air New Zealand Cup.

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{{DEFAULTSORT:Waqaseduadua, Viliame 1983 births Living people New Zealand rugby union players North Harbour rugby union players Auckland rugby union players Blues (Super Rugby) players Chiefs (rugby union) players Highlanders (rugby union) players CA Brive players FC Grenoble players SU Agen Lot-et-Garonne players Expatriate rugby union players in France New Zealand people of I-Taukei Fijian descent New Zealand expatriate rugby union players New Zealand expatriate sportspeople in France Rugby union players from Suva New Zealand international rugby sevens players Male rugby sevens players