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Manuma Samoa is a professional rugby union team based in Samoa that plays in the Global Rapid Rugby competition.[1] Founded in 2019 as Kagifa Samoa, the team is backed by the Samoa Rugby Union.[2]
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Name and logo
Manuma, in Samoan, refers to the many-colored fruit dove (Ptilinopus perousii), a small dove found in that country.[3][4] The team logo includes the head of a manuma bird in profile beneath the Southern Cross in white on a blue background.[1]
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.[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.
The team was backed by Pacific Sports International in partnership with the Samoa Rugby Union.[2] The 2019 squad included Samoan-based players,[2][6] Tongans, Fijians and New Zealanders as well as Samoan-eligible players based in Australia and New Zealand.[6][7][8]
Manuma Samoa
The team was renamed Manuma Samoa with the backing of the Samoa Rugby Union for the 2020 Rapid Rugby season.[9]
Home field
Manuma Samoa plays home games at Apia Park Stadium. Due to construction at Apia Park in 2019 for the Pacific Games,[10][11] the team's home matches for the Rapid Rugby Pacific Showcase were moved to Pukekohe Stadium in Auckland and Ballymore Stadium in Brisbane.[12]
Squad
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The Manuma squad for the 2020 Global Rapid Rugby season:
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Notes:
^* 2019 Rapid Rugby matches in the Pacific showcase.
Head coaches
- Darryl Suasua (2019) [10]
- Brian Lima (2020) [13]
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