Atunasia Vunivialu
| Personal information | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Born | Fiji | |||||
| Playing information | ||||||
| Position | Loose forward | |||||
| Representative | ||||||
| Years | Team | Pld | T | G | FG | P |
| 2000 | Fiji | 3 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 14 |
| Source: [1] | ||||||
Atunasia Vunivialu is a Fijian rugby league player who represented his country in the 2000 World Cup.
Playing career
Vunivialu played in three matches for Fiji in the 2000 World Cup.[2] He scored a hat-trick against Russia including a 90-metre try, then a record.[3][4]
In 2008, while playing for the Mango Bay Cowboys in the Fiji National Rugby League Grand Final, Vunivialu punched referee Sale Tubuna. The match was abandoned and he was subsequently suspended for five years.[5][6]
References
- ↑ Atunasia Vunivialu rugbyleagueproject.org
- ↑ Rugby League New Zealand Herald, 30 October 2000
- ↑ Fijians floor French at World Cup ABC News, 1 November 2008
- ↑ New Zealand thrash Lebanon 64-0 The Post, 29 October 2000
- ↑ Player banned for punching ref Otago Daily Times, 3 August 2008
- ↑ Vunivalu punches ref, cops 5-year ban The Fiji Times, 3 August 2008
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