Vai Toutai
Toutai playing for the Wentworthville Magpies in 2012.
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Personal information
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| Full name | Vai Afu Toutai | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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28 January 1993 Campbelltown, New South Wales, Australia |
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| Height | 186 cm (6 ft 1 in) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Weight | 103 kg (16 st 3 lb) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Playing information
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| Position | Wing, Centre | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Vai Toutai (born 28 January 1993) is an Australian professional rugby league footballer who until December 2016 played for the Parramatta Eels in the National Rugby League. A Tongan international representative, he plays at centre and wing.
Born in Campbelltown, New South Wales, Toutai is of Tongan descent and attended Eagle Vale High School. He played his junior rugby league for Campbelltown City Kangaroos and Fairfield United before being signed by the Parramatta Eels.
Toutai played for the Eels NYC team in 2011 and 2012, scoring 12 tries in 29 games. In Round 2 of the 2013 NRL season, Toutai made his NRL debut for the Eels against the Bulldogs, replacing injured winger Ken Sio in the Eels 20-16 loss at ANZ Stadium. In his next match in Round 3 against the Wests Tigers, Toutai scored his NRL first try in the Eels 31-18 loss at Leichhardt Oval. Toutai finished off his debut year with him playing in 15 matches and scoring 4 tries (16p).
On 14 February 2014, Toutai was selected in the Eels inaugural 2014 NRL Auckland Nines squad. In Round 1 against the New Zealand Warriors, Toutai scored a hatrick in the Eels 36-16 win at Parramatta Stadium. On 5 June 2014, Toutai extended his contract with the Eels for a further 3 years till the end of the 2017 season. In Round 23 against the Canterbury-Bankstown Bulldogs at ANZ Stadium, Toutai was the centre of the Eels controversial 18-16 loss after Toutai received a pass from the Eels ball boy after halfback Chris Sandow kicked a 40/20 then Toutai passing the ball to Sandow to race over to score the winning try for the Eels but was disallowed after the ball boy didn't place the ball on the ground. Toutai finished off the Eels 2014 season having played in 10 matches and scoring 8 tries. On 16 October 2014, he was named in the Tonga squad to play against the Papua New Guinea national rugby league team in Lae. He played on the wing in Tonga's 32-18 loss.
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