Cobram Football Club, Murray Bushrangers (TAC Cup)
Draft
No. 43, 2016 national draft
Debut
Round 1, 2018, Geelong vs. Melbourne, at MCG
Height
197 cm (6 ft 6 in)
Weight
102 kg (225 lb)
Position(s)
Key Defender
Club information
Current club
Port Adelaide
Playing career1
Years
Club
Games (Goals)
2018–2023
Geelong
75 (38)
2024–
Port Adelaide
9 (0)
Total
84 (38)
1 Playing statistics correct to the end of round 9 2024.
Sources: AFL Tables, AustralianFootball.com
Esava Ratugolea (born 24 July 1998) is a professional Australian rules footballer playing for the Port Adelaide Football Club in the Australian Football League (AFL). Ratugolea was initially drafted by Geelong with their third pick and forty-third overall in the 2016 national draft.[1] Ratugolea made his debut in Geelong's 3-point win against Melbourne in round 1, 2018 at the Melbourne Cricket Ground.[2]
Ratugolea was born in Griffith, New South Wales. His parents are Fijian, and arrived in Australia a few years before his birth. At the age of six, Ratugolea moved to Cobram, Victoria. He only began playing football in 2011, after previously playing rugby and soccer.[3][4]
At the end of the 2023 AFL season, he was traded to Port Adelaide.[5]
^Nicholson, Larissa (3 December 2016). "The Geelong draftee Esava Ratugolea's love of football started with a packet of chips". The Age. Fairfax Media. Retrieved 25 March 2018.
^"Demons are Gawn as late miss lets Cats hold on". ABC Sport. Australian Broadcasting Corporation. 25 March 2018. Retrieved 25 March 2018.
^"Counting the cost - Shepparton News". 18 August 2017. Archived from the original on 25 March 2018. Retrieved 25 March 2018.
^"Ratugolea's rapid rise - TAC Cup". 7 July 2016.
^@AFL_House (18 October 2023). "Trade paperwork lodged" (Tweet) – via Twitter.
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