Manu Tuilagi

Manu Tuilagi

Player information
Full name	Etuale Manusamoa Tuilagi
birthday	May 18, 1991
place of birth	Fatausi-Fogapoa, Savaiʻi , Western Samoa
size	184 cm
society
society	Leicester Tigers
position	Inner three quarters
Clubs as active
Years	society	Games (points)
2009–	Leicester Tigers
National team
Years	National team	Games (points)
2011–	England	35 (70)
2013	British and Irish Lions	1 (0)
As of September 12, 2019

Manu Tuilagi (born May 18, 1991 in Fatausi-Fogapoa, Savaiʻi , Western Samoa ) is an English rugby union player . He plays as the inner three quarters for the England national team and the Leicester Tigers .

childhood and education

Tuilagi grew up as the youngest of six brothers in a rugby family in Samoa. Four of his brothers, Freddie Tuilagi , Henry Tuilagi , Alesana Tuilagi and Anitele'a Tuilagi played for the Samoan national team . Manu already played in the U16 and U18 teams for England.

Career

society

Tuilagi first played for the Leicester Tigers in 2009. He won the English championship title in 2013 .

National team

Tuilagi made his national team debut against Wales in August 2011 and made his first attempt there. He was nominated for the following World Cup in New Zealand , was used in five games of the English and scored two attempts. In the first game against Argentina , he was 20 years and 115 days old, making him England's youngest World Cup player in history. In 2013 she joined the ranks of the British and Irish Lions . He was substituted on in the final game of the winning test series against Australia . In the following years he suffered numerous injuries, so that he only appeared twice for England between June 2014 and the Six Nations 2019 . In 2019 he was nominated for his second world championship .

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• Premiership profile