Junior Pelesasa

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Junior Pelesasa (born 17 October 1980 in New Zealand) is an Australian rugby union footballer. He plays as a centre.

Junior is 1.8 m tall and weighs 94 kg. Junior moved to Australia from New Zealand at the age of 16. He has represented Australia at Schoolboy, Under 21 and 'A' level.He spent two years playing for the Brisbane Broncos rugby league team after which he left rugby league and joined Rugby Union playing for the Queensland provincial side before being drafted into the Queensland Reds Super 12 side where he played 33 matches for them. In 2006 he moved to a new Super Rugby franchise known as the Western Force. He has to-date played 5 matches for his new team which finished last in the 2006 Super 14 competition.