Willie Tonga
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| Personal information | ||||||
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| Full name | Villiami Sione Tonga | |||||
| Nickname | Little Willie | |||||
| Born |
8 August 1983 Canberra, Australian Capital Territory, Australia |
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| Height | 185 cm (6 ft 1 in) | |||||
| Weight | 100 kg (15 st 10 lb) | |||||
| Playing information | ||||||
| Position | Centre | |||||
| Club | ||||||
| Years | Team | Pld | T | G | FG | P |
| 2002–03 | Parramatta Eels | 8 | 5 | 0 | 0 | 20 |
| 2004–08 | Bulldogs | 81 | 37 | 0 | 0 | 148 |
| 2009–11 | Nth. Qld. Cowboys | 60 | 34 | 0 | 0 | 136 |
| 2012–14 | Parramatta Eels | 32 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 12 |
| 2015 | Catalans Dragons | 19 | 7 | 0 | 0 | 28 |
| 2016– | Leigh Centurions | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Total | 202 | 86 | 0 | 0 | 344 | |
| Representative | ||||||
| Years | Team | Pld | T | G | FG | P |
| 2004–11 | Queensland | 8 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 12 |
| 2004–11 | Australia | 12 | 8 | 0 | 0 | 32 |
| 2010 | Prime Minister's XIII | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 4 |
| 2011 | Indigenous All Stars | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| As of 21 June 2016 | ||||||
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Villiami Sione "Willie" Tonga (born 8 August 1983 in Canberra, Australian Capital Territory) is an Australian professional rugby league footballer who currently plays for the Leigh Centurions of the English Championship. An Australian international and Queensland State of Origin representative centre, he previously played for the Eels, the Bulldogs, with whom he won the 2004 NRL Premiership, and the North Queensland Cowboys. He joined French club Catalans Dragons in 2015 and signed a contract with the Centurions for 2016.
Born in the former Woden Valley Hospital on 8 August 1983, he is of Indigenous Australian, Tongan and Samoan descent. His full name is Viliami Sione Tonga, known as Willie. He was the first child of Tongan immigrant John (Sione) Tonga and Wiradjuri woman, Maria Naden. Esi Tonga, also a rugby league player, is his younger brother.
Showing a talent at a young age while living in Peak Hill, New South Wales, Tonga soon adopted rugby league and played for the Cootamundra side while his parents attended the Bimbadeen Bible College. After leaving Cootamundra, Tonga's parents and their five children moved to La Perouse in Sydney, and Tonga played rugby union for the Matraville Sports High School First XV. His parents continued to move around working for the Aboriginal Inland Missionaries and the family finally settled in Cherbourg, Queensland, an Aboriginal community in Queensland.
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