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Playing rugby was a free passport to travel – Maurie Fa’asavalu

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My Life in Rugby - Maurie Fa'asavalu

THE FORMER SAMOA RU, GREAT BRITAIN RL, HARLEQUINS, OYONNAX AND ST HELENS PLAYER, WHO IS NOW COACHING WEST PARK ST HELEN’S
My first interaction with rugby was not exactly what you would call conventional. My dad was a prison warden at Tafa’igata Prison on the Samoan island of Upolu, he worked there from 1991, when I was 11, and as we lived in a house on the compound.
In the evening I played touch rugby with the inmates, who were allowed out to do jobs and get some exercise.
That was a big year for Samoan rugby with the win over Wales at the World Cup. We ...

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