Samuela Anise

Samuela Anise
Personal information
Full name	Samuela Lagilagi Anise
Born	(1986-08-13) 13 August 1986 Suva, Fiji
Height	1.98 m (6 ft 6 in)
Weight	118 kg (18 st 8 lb)
School(s) attended	Suva Grammar School
University	Fiji National University
Club information
Playing position	Lock
Current club	Canon Eagles
Senior career*
Years	Team	Apps^†	(Pts)^†
2016−	Canon Eagles	9	(0)
Representative team(s)^‡
2016−	Japan	4	(0)
* Senior club appearances and points correct as of 9 November 2016. † Appearances (Points). ‡ Representative team caps and points correct as of 26 November 2016.

Samuela Anise (アニセサムエラ, Anise Samuela, born 13 August 1986) is a Fijian-born, Japanese international rugby union player who plays as a lock.^[1] He currently plays for the Canon Eagles in Japan's domestic Top League.^[2]^[3]

Club Career

Anise signed for Top League side, the Canon Eagles ahead of the 2016-17 season and instantly established himself as a regular starter with his new side.^[4]

International

After only 9 Top League games, Anise received his first call-up to his adopted country, Japan's senior squad ahead of the 2016 end-of-year rugby union internationals. He debuted in the number 5 jersey in new head coach, Jamie Joseph's first game, a 54-20 loss at home to Argentina.^[1]

Anise played for the Fiji Warriors in 2008 against Samoa A and Tonga A ^[5] which should have legally ruled him out of playing for Japan under Regulations 8.3 and 8.4. Since the Fiji Warriors are Fiji's "A" team, playing for them against other "A" side or International sides rules out the player from playing for another nation..

References

1 2 "Samuela Anise ESPN Scrum Player Profile". ESPN. Retrieved 9 November 2016.
↑ "Samuela Anise Top League Player Profile" (in Japanese). Top League. Retrieved 9 November 2016.
↑ "Samuela Anise Canon Eagles Player Profile" (in Japanese). Canon Eagles. Retrieved 9 November 2016.
↑ "Samuela Anise itsrugby Player Statistics". itsrugby. Retrieved 9 November 2016.
↑ "Anise may face Fijians - Fiji Times Online". fijitimes.com. Retrieved 2016-11-27.

Canon Eagles squad

Forwards	Samuela Anise Yuho Ashiya Fotu Auelua Kane Falconer Suguru Hidaka Kanta Higashionna Sugura Igarashi Akira Jo Daisuke Kaneko Takashi Kikutani Murphy Leilua Yusuke Niwai Yusuke Ochiai Naoto Shimada Naoshi Shimizu Shinya Shimizu Topui Sekona Takatoshi Sugawara Ryouta Suginaga Shinobu Takashima Corey Thomas Adam Thomson Satoshi Ueda Muneyuki Uematsu Kazuhiko Usami Yasuo Yamaji Mitsugu Yamamoto Shohei Yuzawa

Backs	Toshiki Amano Koki Arai Tim Bennetts Michael Bond Kojiro Fujichika Kenyuh Fujimoto Takeru Fukui Tokiro Harada Kosuke Hashino Taisei Hayashi Richard Havili Kaufusi Willie le Roux Ryohei Mitomo Naoki Moriya Yuya Noguchi Hirotoki Onozawa JC Roos Amanaki Saumaki Masaru Sugaya Ryota Takagi Tetsu Uehara Taku Wada

Coach	Yoji Nagatomo

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