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Manuma Samoa is a professional
rugby union Rugby union, commonly known simply as rugby, is a Contact sport#Terminology, close-contact team sport that originated at Rugby School in the first half of the 19th century. One of the Comparison of rugby league and rugby union, two codes of ru ...
team based in
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 Island, Manono an ...
that plays in the Global Rapid Rugby competition. Founded in 2019 as Kagifa Samoa, the team is backed by the
Samoa Rugby Union Rugby Samoa ( sm, 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.Jones, p10 It joined the Internat ...
.


Name and logo

Manuma, in Samoan, refers to the many-colored fruit dove (''Ptilinopus perousii''), a small dove found in that country. The team logo includes the head of a manuma bird in profile beneath the Southern Cross in white on a blue background.


History


Kagifa Samoa

The Kagifa Samoa team was established in 2019 and competed in the Pacific Showcase series during the inaugural year of Global Rapid Rugby. In Samoan colloquial speech, a kagifa refers to an enormous wild fish or shark that wreaked havoc in Polynesian mythical legend, and which is more formally referred to as tanifa. The team was backed by Pacific Sports International in partnership with the
Samoa Rugby Union Rugby Samoa ( sm, 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.Jones, p10 It joined the Internat ...
. The 2019 squad included Samoan-based players, Tongans, Fijians and New Zealanders as well as Samoan-eligible players based in Australia and New Zealand.


Manuma Samoa

The team was renamed Manuma Samoa with the backing of the Samoa Rugby Union for the 2020 Rapid Rugby season.


Home field

Manuma Samoa plays home games at
Apia Park Stadium Apia Park is a multi-function sports complex located in Apia, the capital of Samoa. Primarily used for rugby union events, Apia Park is the home stadium of the Samoa national rugby union team, Manu Samoa. It is also a venue for association fo ...
. Due to construction at Apia Park in 2019 for the
Pacific Games The Pacific Games (French: Jeux du Pacifique), is a continental multi-sport event held every four years among athletes from Oceania. The inaugural Games took place in 1963 in Suva, Fiji, and most recently in 2019 in Apia, Samoa. The Games we ...
, the team's home matches for the Rapid Rugby Pacific Showcase were moved to Pukekohe Stadium in
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and Ballymore Stadium in
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.


Squad

The Manuma squad for the 2020 Global Rapid Rugby season:


Records


Season standings

Global Rapid Rugby Notes:
2019 Rapid Rugby matches in the Pacific showcase.


Head coaches

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Darryl Suasua Darryl Bill Suasua (born 1966) is the current head coach of Counties Manukau in the Mitre 10 Cup, and a former coach of the New Zealand women's national rugby union team. He coached the Black Ferns for seven years in which they won both the 19 ...
(2019) * Brian Lima (2020)


Captains

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Leon Fukofuka Leon Fukofuka (born 8 September 1994) is a rugby union player who currently plays as a halfback for in New Zealand's domestic Mitre 10 Cup and is a international. Early career The son of former Auckland and Prop, Kalau Fukofuka, Leon wa ...
(2019) *
Patrick Fa’apale Patrick Fa'apale (born 3 May 1991) is a rugby union fly-half who plays for Vaiala and Samoa. Fa’apale made his debut for Samoa in 2014 and was part of the squad at the 2015 Rugby World Cup The 2015 Rugby World Cup was the eighth Rugby Wo ...
(2020)


See also

* Rugby union in Samoa


References


External links


Invest Samoa Manuma
page
Manu Samoa
website of the Samoa Rugby Union


Archives

* * {{Rugby union in Samoa Samoan rugby union teams Global Rapid Rugby teams Rugby clubs established in 2019 Rugby union clubs disestablished in 2020 2020 disestablishments in Oceania