by Alan Ah Mu APIA: FRIDAY 10 MAY 2013: Commonwealth gold medalist Fa’avae Fa’auliuli stands poised to return to international competition after the champion weightlifter suffered a shoulder dislocation last year. As live television focused on him at the 2012 Commonwealth and Oceania Weightlifting Championships fans watched in horror as Fa’auliuli writhed in pain when faulty [...]

by Alan Ah Mu APIA: FRIDAY 10 MAY 2013: It’s a battle between the two Steves for the loyalty of winger Alapati Leiua. On Monday Manu Samoa coach Stephen Betham named Leiua as one of his wingers for the Four Nation Tournament in South Africa next month. Today news broke that All Black coach Steve [...]

APIA: TUESDAY 7 MAY 2013: The Samoa Rugby Union is setting the record straight of what SRU calls misleading reports circulated on the social media network, regarding the Manu Samoa South African Tour in June. “There has never been any indication that the Springboks have pulled out of the Four Nations Tournament, nor replaced by [...]

Alan Ah Mu APIA: MONDAY 5 APRIL 2013: The Manu Samoa team to compete in a new four nation tournament next June in South Africa could provide a geography lesson for a school such is the number of countries which the players have been called to duty from. Midfielder, Isaia Tuifua, has been selected from [...]

BY Alan Ah Mu APIA: FRIDAY 3 MAY 2013: The young and the restless amongst our arsenal of rugby talent might inject a Samoan flavour into the unknown realm of Romanian rugby. That is if famous Springbok Chester Williams finds what he seeks here. “I’m here just to recruit some young talent to take to [...]