Famous Papua New Guinea Rugby Players

The papua new guinea national rugby league team are nicknamed kumuls after the bird of paradise a national symbol of the country their first ever test match was a 40 12 home defeat by england in 1975.

Famous papua new guinea rugby players.

Bob egerton 57 born in papua new guinea. Makali aizue 42 3. The people below are listed by their popularity so the most recognizable names are at the top of the list. Marcus bai 47 6.

David mead 31 5. Rugby players born in papua new guinea 1. Papua new guinea is a three tier rugby union playing nation. The papua new guinea team experienced huge difficulties leading to the 2010 rugby league four nations tournament as politicians clashed for control over the game and the governing body the pngrfl was split over issues concerning junior development the national team and the papua new guinea nrl bid.

Adrian lam 50 7. Some of the people below are celebrities born in papua new guinea while others are simply notable locals. 15 20 sep 5 40092. This is a list of papua new guinea national rugby league team players.

295 players have represented papua new guinea kumuls since 1975 starring with kumul 1 paul chue and the latest being dan russell in 2019 who is png kumul 295. Papua new guinea 7 s. List of famous people from papua new guinea including photos when available. This list may not reflect recent changes.

David mead is an papua new guinean rugby league footballer for the gold coast titans of the national rugby league. Rugby league players in papua new guinea by club 9 c pages in category papua new guinean rugby league players the following 124 pages are in this category out of 124 total. Will genia 32 2. They compete in the rugby league world cup and first entered a team in the 1985 89 competition though it was not until the 1995 rugby league world cup that they were able to win away from.

This caused adrian lam to retire as head coach of the kumuls in september. David mead is known as one of the fastest players in the nrl over 100 metres. Owen farrell is now in doubt for saracens champions cup quarter final against leinster in two weekends time. Ultimate rugby players news fixtures and live results.

Nene macdonald 26 4. There are currently 8 520 registered players and 57 clubs. Stanley gene 46 8. A brilliant athlete oozing pace and evasive running kuk is the type of player who turns half chances into four pointers and constantly puts opposing defensive lines under duress.

They began playing international rugby union in 1966 and have yet to make the rugby world cup teams from papua new guinea have competed in the commonwealth games. 10 amelia kuk papua new guinea former papua new guinea rugby sevens representative. Owen farrell red carded for a dangerous tackle.