Rugby player
| Date of birth | (1976-05-13) 13 May 1976 (age 48) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Place of birth | Wellington, New Zealand | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Height | 1.73 m (5 ft 8 in) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Weight | 80 kg (176 lb) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Tanner Vili (born 13 May 1976) is a New Zealand/Samoan rugby union footballer. He plays as a fly-half and full back
He played for Samoa at the 1999 Rugby World Cup and 2003 Rugby World Cup. He later joined the NZ Barbarians.
In 2004 Vili's illegal clothesline tackle on Mark Cueto began the tension that eventually led to the mass brawl that led to the dismissal of Semo Sititi (yellow card), Alesana Tuilagi and Lewis Moody (both red cards), in some of the worst scenes of violence ever to be witnessed at Twickenham.
References
- "Tanner Vili Samoa". ESPN. Retrieved 9 May 2023.
- "Tanner Vili". New Zealand Barbarian Rugby Club. 18 August 2021. Retrieved 9 May 2023.
- "England 40-3 Samoa". 26 November 2005.
| Samoa squad – 2003 Rugby World Cup | |
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| Coach: Boe | |
| Samoa squad - |2001 Rugby Sevens World Cup | |
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| Management | Saena |
| Samoa squad – 1999 Rugby World Cup | |
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| Coach: Williams | |
| Pacific Islanders 2004 tour of Australia and New Zealand | |
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- Living people
- 1976 births
- Border Reivers players
- Samoa international rugby union players
- Pacific Islanders rugby union players
- New Zealand rugby union players
- Rugby union players from Wellington City
- New Zealand sportspeople of Samoan descent
- New Zealand expatriate rugby union players in Scotland
- New Zealand expatriate rugby union players in Japan
- Samoan expatriate rugby union players in Japan
- Samoan expatriate sportspeople in Scotland
- Rugby union fly-halves
- 1999 Rugby World Cup players
- 2003 Rugby World Cup players
- Wanganui rugby union players
- Hurricanes (rugby union) players
- Samoan rugby union biography stubs