{"id":113127,"date":"2015-08-31T18:18:59","date_gmt":"2015-08-31T17:18:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.intouchrugby.com\/magazine\/?p=113127"},"modified":"2015-08-31T18:18:59","modified_gmt":"2015-08-31T17:18:59","slug":"samoa-name-rugby-world-cup-squad","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.intouchrugby.com\/magazine\/samoa-name-rugby-world-cup-squad\/","title":{"rendered":"Samoa name Rugby World Cup Squad!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Samoa RWC 2015 squad:<\/p>\n<p>Forwards: Viliamu Afatia, Jake Grey, Logovii Mulipola, Anthony Perenise, Sakaria Taulafo, Wayne Ole Avei, Ma&#8217;atulimanu Leiataua, Motu Matu&#8217;u, Faatiga Lemalu, Teofilo Paulo, Kane Thompson, Iosefa (Joe) Tekori, Maurie Faasavalu, Alafoti Faosiliva, TJ Ioane, Jack Lam, Vavae Tuilagi, Ofisa Treviranus (captain).<\/p>\n<p>Backs: Vavao Afemai, Kahn Fotualii, Patrick Fa&#8217;apale, Tusiata Pisi, Mike Stanley, Rey Lee-Lo, Johnny Leota, George Pisi, Paul Perez, Fa&#8217;atoina Autagavaia, Ken Pisi, Tim Nanai-Williams, Alesana Tuilagi (vice-captain).<\/p>\n<p>Manu Samoa\u2019s 31-man squad for RWC 2015 features all three Pisi brothers &#8211; Tusiata, Ken and George (main picture) \u2013 as well as some other notable inclusions.<\/p>\n<p>Leicester Tigers prop Logovii Mulipola is one of 11 English-based players to be selected, and there is a return for Hurricanes midfielder Rey Lee-Lo who, like the Pisis, were not part of the recent squad that finished second to Fiji at the World Rugby Pacific Nations Cup.<\/p>\n<p>Mulipola has not appeared for his country for over a year while the last of Lee-Lo\u2019s two caps came against England on the 2014 November tour&#8230;&#8230; full story on >>>> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.rugbyworldcup.com\/news\/83735\">http:\/\/www.rugbyworldcup.com\/news\/83735<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Samoa RWC 2015 squad: Forwards: Viliamu Afatia, Jake Grey, Logovii Mulipola, Anthony Perenise, Sakaria Taulafo, Wayne Ole Avei, Ma&#8217;atulimanu Leiataua, Motu Matu&#8217;u, Faatiga Lemalu, Teofilo Paulo, Kane Thompson, Iosefa (Joe) Tekori, Maurie Faasavalu, Alafoti Faosiliva, TJ Ioane, Jack Lam, Vavae Tuilagi, Ofisa Treviranus (captain). Backs: Vavao Afemai, Kahn Fotualii, Patrick Fa&#8217;apale, Tusiata Pisi, Mike Stanley, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-113127","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-ulster-rugby"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.intouchrugby.com\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/113127","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.intouchrugby.com\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.intouchrugby.com\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.intouchrugby.com\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.intouchrugby.com\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=113127"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.intouchrugby.com\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/113127\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":113129,"href":"https:\/\/www.intouchrugby.com\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/113127\/revisions\/113129"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.intouchrugby.com\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=113127"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.intouchrugby.com\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=113127"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.intouchrugby.com\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=113127"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}