“While the adults trained, we would mimic them”
WHILE THE parents were doing full-bore drills on the training pitch, the kids were emulating them exactly. But instead of a ball, Martin Iosefo and the other whippersnappers were using anything they could find. This was rugby 101, but with a charming island twist.
“I was born in Hawaii and lived there’til I was four,” Iosefo tells. “My parents are from Samoa and my father wanted to instil a Samoan culture early on, so he took my older brother (Chris) and me back to Samoa.
