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    CHRIS VUI

    Aug 20, 2019 3 minutes
    Interview Sarah Mockford
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    Age 26 (11 Feb 1993)

    Born Auckland

    Club Bristol

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    Height 6ft 6in

    Weight 16st

    Samoa caps 13 (1T)

    Twitter @ChrisVui_

    CHRIS VUI was 18 when he first started playing rugby but within a few years he had become Samoa’s youngest-ever captain, leading the team out against Scotland in 2017 aged just 24. He is now preparing for another milestone in terms of the World Cup and here he tells his story…

    My mum and dad came over to New Zealand from Samoa

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