- Ilivasi Tabua
Ilivasi "Sevia Tamanivalu" Tabua (born
30 September ,1964 ) is theFiji Rugby Union coach. A formerAustralia nrugby union footballer and also a formerFiji anrugby union footballer, he used to play as a flanker.Tabua played for Australia sevens team in the 1993
Sevens World Cup , after which he played for Australia in fifteens in the1995 Rugby World Cup . He has played 10 test for Australia. In the1999 Rugby World Cup he played forthe Fiji team. He was nicknamed the Human Skewer.Personal life
He was raised in a family of seven siblings five boys and two girls. He spent the first 12 years of his childhood in the
Lau group as his father's was a teacher at one of the schools on the chiefly island. Ilivasi started school at Mabula, Cicia in Lau before his family moved to the mainland in the 1970s. His family settled at Naivicula,Tailevu where his father comes from. He attended Marist Brothers High School . In 1980, Ilivasi left to further his studies inAustralia International Rugby career
After retiring from international rugby, he came back to Fiji to help the Fiji team to prepare for the
2007 Rugby World Cup . He was recently appointed as the head coach of Fiji's HPU and helped the former Fiji coachWayne Pivac with the Fiji team, but when Pivac resigned from Fiji rugby, Tabua was picked as the man to replace him and he was chosen as the new coach. [ [http://www.planet-rugby.com/Story/0,18259,3551_1868582,00.html Former Wallaby the new Fijian coach - Rugby News, Results, Fixtures and Features from Planet-Rugby.com ] ] . He was also the first Fijian to be appointed the national coach to theRugby World Cup . He comes at the tail end of a succession of expatriates includingGeorge Simpkin ,Brad Johnstone , Greg Smith,Mac McCallion and Pivac who left last year.External links
* [http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/rugby/world_cup/news/1999/09/27/fiji_bios/ Bio]
* [http://www.abc.net.au/ra/sport/stories/s1740630.htm HPU]
* [http://www.planet-rugby.com/Story/0,18259,3551_1868582,00.html New Coach]
* [http://www.fijitimes.com/story.aspx?id=58149 Fiji Times interview]Notes and Reference
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