Search results
Results from the WOW.Com Content Network
The Samoa national rugby union team represents the Samoa Rugby Union in men's international rugby union. They are also known as "Manu Samoa", which is thought to derive from the name of a Samoan warrior. [1] They perform a traditional Samoan challenge called the siva tau before each game.
As the Western Samoa Rugby Football Union, it joined the IRB in 1988. [3] When Western Samoa amended its constitution to change the country's name from Western Samoa to Samoa, the union also changed its name, and dropped the word football to become the Samoa Rugby Union. The union is also a member of the Federation of Oceania Rugby Unions (FORU).
Rugby Samoa (Samoan: Lakapi Samoa) is the governing body of the sport of rugby union in Samoa. Founded as the Apia Rugby Union in 1924, it was affiliated to the New Zealand Rugby Football Union the same year. [1] It joined the International Rugby Board as the Western Samoa Rugby Football Union in 1988.
The Kagifa Samoa team was established in 2019 and competed in the Pacific Showcase series during the inaugural year of Global Rapid Rugby. [2] [5] In Samoan colloquial speech, a kagifa refers to an enormous wild fish or shark that wreaked havoc in Polynesian mythical legend, [2] and which is more formally referred to as tanifa.
List of Samoa national rugby union players is a list of people who have played for the Samoa national rugby union team.The list only includes players who have played in a match recognized by the Samoa Rugby Union as a test match, whether it was played under the governing body's current name or the "Western Samoa Rugby Football Union" name (as it was originally established in 1924).
Samoa A is a national representative rugby union team of the Samoan rugby union. It is the second-tier side to the Samoa national rugby union team . Samoa A competes in the Pacific Challenge , formerly known as the Pacific Rugby Cup, against teams including Tonga A and Fiji Warriors . [ 1 ]
Samoa started its Rugby World Cup campaign by slowly but surely overwhelming debutant Chile 43-10 in a game drawn out by penalties and referrals on Saturday. After conceding an early try and ...
The American Samoa national rugby union team, also known as the "Talavalu", represents the American Samoa Rugby Union in international rugby union. As of September 2023, it is the lowest ranked World Rugby team. [1] The Talavalu is the name of a traditional Samoan war weapon, originally carved out of ironwood.