Roy Asotasi

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Roy Asotasi

Personal information
Full name	Roy Asotasi
Date of birth	January 6, 1982 (1982-01-06) (age 26)}
Place of birth	Auckland, New Zealand
Height	6 ft 0 in (1.84 m)
Weight	16 st 3 lbs (103 kg)
Nickname(s)	Razza
Club information
Position(s)	Prop
Current club	South Sydney Rabbitohs
Number	10
Youth clubs
Years	Club
	Marist (Auckland)
Senior clubs*
Years	Club	Apps (points)
2002 - 06 2007 - Current	Canterbury Bulldogs South Sydney Rabbitohs	89 (32) 26 (16)
Representative teams
2004 - 07	New Zealand	15
* Professional club appearances and points counted for domestic first grade only.

Roy Asotasi (born January 6, 1982 in Auckland, New Zealand) is a New Zealand-born rugby league player, currently playing for the South Sydney Rabbitohs in the Australian National Rugby League competition. His position of choice is at prop forward. He is currently considered to be one of the best prop forwards in the NRL.^[who?]

Contents 1 Club career 1.1 With Canterbury Bulldogs 1.2 With South Sydney Rabbitohs 2 International honours 3 Career highlights 4 External links

[edit] Club career

[edit] With Canterbury Bulldogs

Roy Asotasi is a product of the Bulldogs, having joined the club in 2000 as a prop forward where he was a regular member of their Flegg team and played in the Premiership winning team against Western Suburbs.

In 2001 he was a regular member of the Jersey Flegg Cup team and played in the Premiership winning team against Cronulla as a second rower.

By 2002 Asotasi became a regular member of the Bulldogs Premier League team and received the opportunity to join the highest grade of Rugby League in Australia, the NRL against Canberra, when Glen Hughes was injured. He returned to the Premier League to play in the Preliminary Final against Penrith but was injured and missed the Grand Final win.

In 2004 Asotasi started the season in the NRL and played every game of the season including the Premiership winning game against the Roosters. In that same year he was also selected to play for New Zealand. He has played 14 Tests for New Zealand from 2004 to 2006.

In 2005 Asotasi played every match of the season before his sequence of 74 consecutive games was interrupted in 2006. He was injured just before the finals but returned to play in the Preliminary Final against Brisbane.

[edit] With South Sydney Rabbitohs

In 2007 Roy Asotasi joined the South Sydney Football Club. Ever since, Asotasi has taken up a pivotal role with the Rabbitohs.^[who?] He has driven the team to greater success, including helping Souths to their first finals appearance in over 2 decades in 2007, where Souths finished in the Top 8 in 7th place.

[edit] International honours

Asotasi has made sixteen appearances for the New Zealand Kiwis international side, and is the current New Zealand captain, as of the 2008 Anzac Test Match

[edit] Career highlights

• Junior Club: Auckland Marist
• Career Stats: 105 career games to date scoring 11 tries
• Three Premierships with the Bulldogs, 2000 and 2001 (Jersey Flegg), 2004 (NRL)
• May 3, 2007: first game played in the famous red and green.
• Appointed co-captain of South Sydney^{[citation needed]}
• Captain of New Zealand National Rugby League Team (the Kiwis)^{[citation needed]}

[edit] External links

• Roy Asotasi Official Player Profile
• Roy Asotasi NRL Player Profile
• Roy Asotasi Bulldogs Profile

v • d • e South Sydney Rabbitohs - current squad  Asotasi (c) •  Barnes •  Champion •  Fa'alogo •  Falloon •  Geddes •  Gordon •  Grant •  Greenfield •  Hegarty •  Huihahau •  Kidwell •  J. Lowe •  B. Lowe •  Luke •  Manuokafoa •  McPherson •  Merritt •  Ndaira •  Paea •  Paulson •  Pettybourne •  Rogers •  Simpson •  Smith •  Stuart •  Sutton •  Talanoa •  Tamanika •  Vagana •  Widders •  Wing • Coach: Taylor

v • d • e Bulldogs squad - 2004 NRL Premiers (8th Title) 1 Luke Patten • 2 Hazem El Masri • 3 Ben Harris • 4 Willie Tonga • 5 Matt Utai • 6 Braith Anasta • 7 Brent Sherwin  • 8 Mark O'Meley • 9 Adam Perry • 10 Roy Asotasi • 11 Willie Mason • 12 Andrew Ryan (c) • 13 Tony Grimaldi  • 14 Johnathan Thurston • 15 Corey Hughes • 16 Reni Maitua • 17 Sonny Bill Williams  • Coach: Steve Folkes

v • d • e New Zealand Kiwis squad - 2005 Tri-nations champions 1 Brent Webb • 2 Jake Webster • 3 Paul Whatuira • 4 Clinton Toopi • 5 Manu Vatuvei • 6 Nigel Vagana • 7 Stacey Jones  • 8 Paul Rauhihi • 9 Motu Tony • 10 Ruben Wiki • 11 David Kidwell • 12 Vinnie Anderson • 13 Shontayne Hape  • 14 David Faiumu • 15 Roy Asotasi • 16 David Solomona • 17 Ali Lauitiiti  • Coach: Brian McClennan