Roy Asotasi
Roy Asotasi (left) and Jason Taylor
Personal information
Nickname	The Rock
Born	6 January 1982 (1982-01-06) (age 27)
	Auckland, New Zealand
Height	184 cm (6 ft 0 in)
Weight	103 kg (16 st 3 lb)
Playing information
Position	Prop
Club
Years	Team	Pld	T	G	FG	P
2002–2006	Bulldogs	84	8	0	0	32
2007–	South Sydney	68	8	0	0	32
	Total	152	16	0	0	64
Representative
Years	Team	Pld	T	G	FG	P
2004–09	New Zealand	24	0	0	0	0
As of 3 October 2009
Source: [Rugby League Project]

Roy Asotasi (born 6 January 1982 in Auckland, New Zealand) is a professional rugby league footballer who currently captains the South Sydney Rabbitohs of the National Rugby League. A New Zealand international representative prop forward, he previously played for the Bulldogs RLFC, with whom he won the 2004 NRL Premiership. He is of Samoan and Cook Islands descent^[1].

[edit] Playing career

[edit] Bulldogs

Roy Asotasi is a product of the Marist Saints. He then joined the Bulldogs club in 2000 as a prop forward where he was a regular member of their Flegg team and played in the Premiership winning team against Western Suburbs.

In 2001 he was a regular member of the Jersey Flegg Cup team and played in the Premiership winning team against the Cronulla-Sutherland Sharks as a second rower.

By 2002 Asotasi became a regular member of the Bulldogs Premier League team and received the opportunity to join the highest grade of Rugby League in Australia, the NRL against Canberra, when Glen Hughes was injured. He returned to the Premier League to play in the Preliminary Final against Penrith but was injured and missed the Grand Final win.

In 2004 Asotasi started the season in the NRL and played every game of the season including the Premiership winning game against the Roosters. In that same year he was also selected to play for New Zealand. He has played 14 Tests for New Zealand from 2004 to 2006.

In 2005 Asotasi played every match of the season before his sequence of 74 consecutive games was interrupted in 2006. He was injured just before the finals but returned to play in the Preliminary Final against Brisbane.

[edit] South Sydney Rabbitohs

In 2007 Roy Asotasi joined the South Sydney Football Club. Ever since, Asotasi has taken up a pivotal role with the Rabbitohs.^[who?] He has driven the team to greater success, including helping Souths to their first finals appearance in over 2 decades in 2007, where Souths finished in the Top 8 in 7th place. He is now the captain of the South Sydney Rabbitohs. He was also named the New Zealand Rugby League's player of the year in 2007^[2].

Asotasi has been named the New Zealand national side captain, as of the 2008 Anzac Test Match.

He was named in the New Zealand training squad for the 2008 Rugby League World Cup.^[3] However in the Round 25 clash against the Sydney Roosters, Roy Asotasi picked up a pectoral injury and was sidelined for the remainder of the season and subsequently, took no part in New Zealand's Rugby League World Cup success.

[edit] Career highlights

• Junior Club: Marist Saints
• Career Stats: 140 career games to date scoring 15 tries
• Three Premierships with the Bulldogs, 2000 and 2001 (Jersey Flegg), 2004 (NRL)
• May 3, 2007: first game played in the famous red and green.
• Appointed co-captain of South Sydney^{[citation needed]}
• Captain of New Zealand National Rugby League Team (the Kiwis)^{[citation needed]}

[edit] References

[edit] External links

• Roy Asotasi Official Player Profile
• Roy Asotasi NRL Player Profile
• Roy Asotasi Bulldogs Profile