Birth name | Solomoni Rasolea | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Date of birth | (1991-04-29)29 April 1991 (age 33) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Place of birth | Brisbane, Queensland, Australia | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Height | 1.84 m (6 ft1⁄2 in) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Weight | 102 kg (16 st 1 lb) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Solomoni 'Junior' Rasolea (born 29 April 1991) is anAustralianrugby union footballer. His regular playing position iscentre. He currently plays for French outfitGrenoble. He is a formerAustralia sevens international.[1]
Rasolea was educated at theAnglican Church Grammar School inBrisbane[2] the same high school asWallaby flankerDavid Pocock andflyhalfQuade Cooper.[3]
Rasolea played in the centres forFiji during his second IRBJunior World Championship in 2011,[3] and also for the Queensland Under 16s (2007), the Queensland Schoolboys (2008–09) and theUniversity club in Brisbane.[3]
In March 2016, he joinedPro14 sideEdinburgh.[4] On 8 March 2018, Rasolea would join with French clubGrenoble in thePro D2 from the 2018–19 season.[5]
Season | Team | Games | Starts | Sub | Mins | Tries | Cons | Pens | Drops | Points | Yel | Red |
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2013 | Force | 12 | 7 | 5 | 613 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 5 | 0 | 0 |
2014 | Force | 9 | 8 | 1 | 593 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 5 | 0 | 0 |
2015 | Force | 7 | 6 | 1 | 434 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
2016 | Force | 11 | 10 | 1 | 774 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
Total | 39 | 31 | 8 | 2414 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 10 | 0 | 0 |