Timoci Matanavou

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Timoci Matanavou
Personal information


Born	(1984-07-08) 8 July 1984 Lautoka, Fiji
Height	1.86 m (6 ft 1 in)^[1]
Weight	78 kg (12 st 4 lb)^[1]
Playing Career
Rugby league
Rugby union
Position	Wing
Club
Years	Team	Apps	T	C	P	DG	Pts
2008–11	Montois	60	31	1	0	0	157
2011-	Toulouse	43	26	0	0	-	130
	Total	103	57	1	0	0	287
Representative
Years	Team	Caps	T	C	P	DG	Pts
2012-	Fiji	1	-	-	-	-	0
As of 1 September 2013

Timoci Matanavou (born 8 July 1984 in Lautoka, Fiji) is a Fijian rugby union player. He plays as a wing. He plays for Stade Toulousain in the Top 14 competition.

International

Matanavou attracted the attention of Fiji Rugby Sevens team selectors with a strong performance in a local sevens's tournament in 2008. He was included into the Fiji's Sevens team and he made his debut at the Hong Kong Sevens in the 2007–08 IRB Sevens World Series.

Matanavou played for the Fiji national team (15s) during the November 2012 tests, and he scored a try in a friendly between Fiji and Gloucester^[2] He made his official test debut the following week in a match between Fiji and Ireland XV when he entered as a substitute.

Club

Matanavou's performance for Fiji saw him get picked by Mont-de-Marsan, a Top 14 team in France for the 2008–09 Top 14 season. In August 2008, he made his debut on the right wing against US Montauban. He scored his first try in February 2009, against Bayonne. He scored just three tries that season and Mont-de-Marsan was demoted to Pro D2 competition for finishing last. The following season in the ProD2, he managed 9 tries and was the best player for Stade Montois that season.^{[citation needed]} The following year, in the 2010–11 Rugby Pro D2 season, he finished as the overall top try scorer with 19 tries in 28 appearance.

His performance impressed Guy Noves, the Stade Toulouse coach who included the winger in his team for the 2011–12 Top 14 season. In the 2011-12 Top 14 season he finished tied for second in try scoring with 10 tries scored. He was the leading try scorer in the 2011–12 Heineken Cup with 8 tries.

Matanavou against Harelquins

Personal

Matanavou is the first cousin of Racing Metro 92 winger, Sireli Bobo.^[1]

References

↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 Timoci Matanavou's Profile at fijirugbyunion.com
↑ RTE Sport, Fiji pipped by Gloucester in Kingsholm, Nov. 14, 2012, http://www.rte.ie/sport/rugby/2012/1114/345657-fiji-pipped-by-gloucester-in-kingsholm/

External links

v t e Stade Toulousain squad

Forwards	Albacete Bregvadze Camara Dusautoir Galan Guillamon Johnston Kakovin Lamboley Maestri Maka Millo-Chluski Montès Nyanga Picamoles Ralepelle Steenkamp Tekori Tolofua

Backs	Barraque Beauxis Clerc David Donguy Doussain Fickou Fritz Gear Huget McAlister Matanavou Médard Poitrenaud Vermaak

Coach	Novès (general manager) Servat (forwards) Élissalde (backs)

Persondata
Name	Matanavou, Timoci
Alternative names
Short description	Fijian rugby union player
Date of birth	8 July 1984
Place of birth	Lautoka, Fiji
Date of death
Place of death

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