Jerome Kaino
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| Full name | Jerome Kaino | ||||||||||||||||
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| Date of birth | 6 April 1983 | ||||||||||||||||
| Place of birth | Faga'alu, American Samoa | ||||||||||||||||
| Height | 1.96 m (6 ft 5 in) | ||||||||||||||||
| Weight | 113 kg (249 lb; 17 st 11 lb) | ||||||||||||||||
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Papakura High School St Kentigern College |
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| Position | Blindside Flanker | ||||||||||||||||
| New Zealand No. | 1050 | ||||||||||||||||
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Correct as of 1 September 2006
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| Professional / senior clubs | |||
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| Years | Club / team | Caps | (points) |
| 2012–2014 | Toyota Verblitz | 18 | (10) |
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Correct as of 8 September 2015
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| Years | Club / team | Caps | (points) |
| 2004–11, 2014– | Auckland | 54 | (45) |
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Correct as of 16 October 2016
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| Super Rugby | |||
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| Years | Club / team | Caps | (points) |
| 2004–12, 2014– | Blues | 117 | (70) |
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Correct as of 20 July 2016
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| National team(s) | |||
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| Years | Club / team | Caps | (points) |
| 2004, 2006-2011, 2014- | New Zealand | 77 | (60) |
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Correct as of 26 November 2016
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Jerome Kaino (born 6 April 1983) is an American Samoan-born New Zealand professional rugby union player. He plays for the Blues in Super Rugby and All Blacks internationally. In 2004, he was named IRB International Under-21 player of the year. In 2011, he was named the New Zealand Rugby player of the year, finishing ahead of Richie McCaw and Ma'a Nonu in the voting. He is a key member of 2011 and 2015 Rugby World Cup winning teams, becoming one of only twenty dual Rugby World Cup winners. Kaino usually plays at blindside flanker, also playing at number 8 for the Blues and has occasionally played lock.
Kaino is the second U.S. national of Samoan descent to play for the All Blacks. The first was Frank Solomon in 1931.
Kaino was born on 6 April 1983 at Lyndon B. Johnson Tropical Medical Center in Faga'alu, located in the U.S. territory of American Samoa as the third of six children. In 1987 at the age of 4, he and his family relocated from their home village of Leone, Tutuila, to Papakura, Auckland. After settling in Papakura, he played junior rugby league for the Papakura Sea Eagles before switching to rugby union in secondary school at Papakura High School and Saint Kentigern College where he was offered a rugby scholarship. He attended both schools with former All Black John Afoa.
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