Filipo Daugunu

Filipo Daugunu
Date of birth (1995-03-04) 4 March 1995
Place of birth Labasa, Fiji
Height 175 cm (5 ft 9 in)
Weight 91 kg (14 st 5 lb; 201 lb)
School Labasa Sangam College, Fiji
Rugby union career
Position(s) Wing / Outside back
Amateur team(s)
Years Team Apps (Points)
2017– Wests 11 (66)
Senior career
Years Team Apps (Points)
2017– Queensland Country 8 (71)
Super Rugby
Years Team Apps (Points)
2018– Queensland Reds 14 (32)
National team(s)
Years Team Apps (Points)
2015 Fiji U20 4 (0)

Filipo Daugunu (born 4 March 1995) is a Fijian professional rugby union player who plays for the Queensland Reds in the Super Rugby competition.[1] His position of choice is wing.

Early career

In 2015, Daugunu gave up an association football career to play rugby union,[2] representing Fiji Under-20 at the World Rugby Junior Trophy in Portugal.[3] He was involved with the Fiji 7s program in 2016,[2] but opted out of joining the team to play on the world circuit.[4] He moved to Brisbane, Australia and began playing club rugby there.[4]

Daugunu gained significant attention in Queensland Premier Rugby after scoring sixty-six points from eleven appearances for Wests Bulldogs in 2017. After helping Wests to their first finals appearance in ten years, losing 24–22 to Sunnybank in the semi-finals, he was recruited to play in the National Rugby Championship (NRC) for Queensland Country.

Daugunu scored seventy-one points in just eight appearances for Queensland Country on the way to club's first national title. He scored a hat-trick in the final against the Canberra Vikings which was instrumental to Country's 42–28 win.[5][6]

Super Rugby

Because of his performances in the NRC, the Queensland Reds signed him in late 2017 to join their squad for the 2018 Super Rugby season.[7][8]

References

  1. ↑ "Filipo Daugunu". www.redsrugby.com.au. Retrieved 30 November 2017.
  2. 1 2 "Reds sign ex-Fijian soccer player Filipo Daugunu". The Sydney Morning Herald. 19 October 2017. Retrieved 30 November 2017.
  3. ↑ "Filipo Daugunu – international career". It's Rugby. Retrieved 1 December 2017.
  4. 1 2 Mele, Kalesi (16 February 2016). "On the radar". The Fiji Times. Archived from the original on 1 December 2017. Retrieved 1 December 2017.
  5. ↑ "New Fiji sensation Filipo Daugunu leads Queensland Country to NRC success". Sport 360. 12 November 2017. Retrieved 30 November 2017.
  6. ↑ "Match Report". Rugby.com.au. 11 November 2017. Retrieved 30 November 2017.
  7. ↑ "Filipo Daugunu converts NRC form into Super Rugby contract with Queensland Reds". The Courier Mail. 19 October 2017. Retrieved 30 November 2017.
  8. ↑ "Filipo Daugunu signs for Queensland Reds". Fiji TV. 19 October 2017. Retrieved 30 November 2017.
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