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| Full name | Samuel Tagataese | |||||
| Nickname | Taga | |||||
| Born | 8 December 1986 Wellington, New Zealand |
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| Height | 192 cm (6 ft 3 in) | |||||
| Weight | 109 kg (17 st 2 lb) | |||||
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| Position | Prop, Second-row | |||||
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| Years | Team | Pld | T | G | FG | P |
| 2007–2008 | Melbourne Storm | 18 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 8 |
| 2009–2011 | Gold Coast Titans | 33 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 16 |
| 2011– | Cronulla Sharks | 12 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 4 |
| Total | 63 | 7 | 0 | 0 | 28 | |
Sam Tagataese (born 8 December 1986 in Wellington, New Zealand) is a rugby league player for the Cronulla Sharks.
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Tagataese attended St. Bernard's College, Lower Hutt, playing first fifteen Rugby, and received Sportsman of the year in 2003.
He left Wellington to play with Melbourne Storm feeder Brisbane Norths, where he was selected for the Queensland under 19's and Junior Kiwis squad in 2004.
Tagataese made his first Grade NRL debut for the Melbourne Storm on Saturday, 7 April 2007, against the Newcastle Knights At Energy Australia Stadium.
On 11 June 2011, Tagataese announced he was leaving the Gold Coast Titans immediately to join the Cronulla Sharks on a three year contract.[1]
Tagataese is of Samoan heritage,[2] and was named in the Samoa training squad for the 2008 Rugby League World Cup.[3]
In 2009 he was named as part of the Samoan side for the Pacific Cup.[4]
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