Losi Filipo
Full name | Losilosivale Filipo | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Date of birth | (1997-12-29) 29 December 1997 (age 26) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
School | St Patrick's College | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Losilosivale Filipo (born 29 December 1997) is a New Zealand rugby union player of Samoan descent.
Filipo hails from Porirua and was a boarder at St Patrick's College, Silverstream. He represented New Zealand under-16s in rugby league and was a New Zealand Schools rugby union player.[1]
When he was 17, Filipo got charged with assaulting four people, two of them female, during a fight in central Wellington. He was discharged without conviction by a district court judge who took into account Filipo's future rugby prospects had he been convicted, a decision that prompted public outcry. Police appealed the ruling to the High Court and Filipo was subsequently sentenced to nine months supervision.[2][3]
Filipo, an outside back, made his Wellington provincial debut in 2017. He is a former Samoa under-20s captain and in 2019 was named in a New Zealand Sevens development squad.[4] In 2021, Filipo debuted for Samoa in a win over Tonga at Waikato Stadium, which secured the country's qualification for the 2023 World Cup.[5]
See also
References
- ^ "In A League Of His Own". The Dominion Post. 17 October 2012.
- ^ "Rugby player Losi Filipo quits squad". NZ Herald. 28 September 2016.
- ^ "Filipo re-sentenced to supervision". Radio New Zealand. 2 November 2016.
- ^ "Losi Filipo selected for NZ Sevens development squad, three years after assault conviction". 1News.co.nz. 14 February 2019.
- ^ "SRU Says Losi Filipo Has Learnt His Lesson". Samoa Global News. 30 October 2019.
External links
- Losi Filipo at ESPNscrum
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