Josh Liavaa
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| Personal information | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Full name | Siosiua Tu'one Liavaa[1] | |||||
| Born | Tonga | |||||
| Playing information | ||||||
| Position | Second-row | |||||
| Representative | ||||||
| Years | Team | Pld | T | G | FG | P |
| Auckland | ||||||
| 1975 | New Zealand | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 1977 | New Zealand Māori | |||||
| Source: RLP | ||||||
Josh Liavaa (born Siosiua Tu'one Liavaa) is a Tongan-born rugby league player who represented New Zealand in the 1975 World Cup.
Playing career
A Northcote Tigers player in the Auckland Rugby League competition, Liavaa played for Auckland and in 1975 was picked in the New Zealand Kiwis squad for the 1975 World Cup.[2]
In 1977 Liavaa played for New Zealand Māori in the Pacific Cup.[3]
Personal life
Liavaa has been married twice. His wives have been
- Princess Siuilikutaputhe of Tonga, a niece of Tongan monarch Tāufaʻāhau Tupou IV; they married in November 1969. The king was reportedly furious and lured the princess back to Tonga, where she was kept under palace arrest. The marriage was annulled by royal decree.[4]
- Levaai Nancy Wolfgramm, a cousin of the Olympic silver medallist boxer Paea Wolfgramm. The couple married in 1971.
In the 1980s Liavaa reportedly had an affair with Tāufaʻāhau Tupou IV's only daughter, Princess Pilolevu Tuita.
Liavaa was a member of the New Zealand Police and now runs a nightclub in Sydney.[5]
References
- ↑ LIAVAA, Siosiua Tu'one (Josh) 1975 - Kiwi #518 nzleague.co.nz
- ↑ Northcote and Birkenhead Tigers Rugby League and Sports Club Inc Historical Information Auckland Rugby League, 2009
- ↑ John Coffey, Bernie Wood (2008). 100 years: Māori rugby league, 1908-2008. Huia Publishers. pp. 198–201. ISBN 1-86969-331-0, 9781869693312 Check
|isbn=value (help). - ↑ "Tonga a troubled kingdom". The New Zealand Herald. 19 January 2002. Retrieved 8 October 2011.
- ↑ "Retribution lingers after forbidden royal romance". The New Zealand Herald. 20 November 2000. Retrieved 8 October 2011.
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