Alafoti Fa'osiliva (born 28 October 1985) is a

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player for English club

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in the

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and in the national

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team.

Early life

Fa'osiliva grew up in the village of

Afega Afega is a village on the island of Upolu in Samoa. It is located on the central north coast of the island to the west of the capital Apia in the countryside. The population is 1998. Afega is part of electoral constituency (''faipule district'') ...

, situated on the central north coast of

Upolu Upolu is an island in Samoa, formed by a massive basaltic shield volcano which rises from the seafloor of the western Pacific Ocean. The island is long and in area, making it the second largest of the Samoan Islands by area. With approximate ...

island. He attended the local Sagaga Primary School followed by neighbouring

Leulumoega Leulumoega Tuai is a village situated on the northwest coast Upolu island in Samoa Samoa, officially the Independent State of Samoa and known until 1997 as Western Samoa, is an island country in Polynesia, part of Oceania, in the South Paci ...

College. In 2004, at the age of 19, he was selected for the Samoa Under 21 team. He also plays for the national

Samoa national rugby union team The Samoa national rugby union team represents Samoa in men's international rugby union competitions. They are governed by Samoa Rugby Union and also known as "Manu Samoa", which is thought to derive from the name of a Samoan warrior. They perf ...

Club career

Faosiliva joined

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in the summer of 2012. He made his first start in the RFU Championship game against London Scottish on 29 November 2012 at the Memorial Stadium. After leaving

, Fa'osiliva joined

Bath Rugby Bath Rugby is a professional rugby union club in Bath, Somerset, England. They play in Premiership Rugby, England's top division of rugby. Founded in 1865 as Bath Football Club, since 1894 the club has played at the Recreation Ground, Bath, Rec ...

in the

for the 2013/14 season. On 13 May 2016, it was confirmed he had been released from Bath due to a recent guilty plea for assault and consequent suspended custodial sentence. On 2 August 2016, Faosiliva signed for local rivals

from the 2016–17 season, following his release from Bath. This was followed by a move to Championship club Bedford Blues in the 19–20 season. He is now lead player coach at Chippenham RFC.

International career

Fa’osiliva was part of the

Samoa national rugby sevens team The Samoa national rugby sevens team, referred to as Samoa Sevens or Manu Samoa 7s, competes in the annual World Rugby Sevens Series. Representing the polynesian country of Samoa, with a population of about 202,000, the team competes against som ...

that won the

2009–10 IRB Sevens World Series The 2009–10 IRB Sevens World Series was the eleventh of an annual series of rugby union sevens tournaments for full national sides run by the International Rugby Board since 1999–2000. Samoa won the IRB Sevens World Series crown for their fir ...

. He was nominated for the 2010

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alongside team captains Lolo Lui and

Mikaele Pesamino Mikaele Pesamino (born 2 April 1984) is a rugby union player in the Samoa Sevens team. He was the highest point scorer in the 2009–2010 IRB Sevens World Series helping his country in securing their first World Series crown and was awarded th ...

. He represented the Samoa 15s team during the

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