Waisale Tikoisolomoni Serevi (born 20 May 1968) is a Fijian former rugby union football player and coach, and is a member of the World Rugby Hall of Fame.[1] Serevi is renowned for his achievements in rugby sevens, while also enjoying a long career in fifteen-a-side rugby at both club and national team levels. Nicknamed "The Wizard" by commentators, he is widely considered to be the greatest rugby sevens player in the history of the game.[2][3][4] A biography of Serevi titled Waisale Serevi: King of Sevens by Nick Darvenzi was published in 2018.[5]
In the 15-man game, he played for Fiji 39 times between 1989 and 2003, and scored 376 points. This included representing Fiji in the 1991, 1999, and 2003 Rugby World Cups. He also played professionally for the Mitsubishi, Leicester, Stade Montois, Stade Bordelais and Staines rugby teams.[6]
His representative sevens career started in 1989 when he played for Fiji at the Hong Kong tournament. Serevi also played in the 1993, 1997, 2001, and 2005 Rugby World Cup Sevens, winning the World Cup with Fiji in 1997 and 2005. He won silver at the Commonwealth Games in 1998 and 2002, and captured bronze in 2006. Serevi played in the International Rugby Board Sevens Series since its creation in 1999. In 2005 after winning the 2005 Rugby World Cup Sevens Serevi was appointed player-coach of the Fiji Sevens national team. He led Fiji to the 2005–06 World Sevens Series victory – the first time the series was won by a team other than New Zealand.
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played halfback for Fiji, as did his brother Mosese and his first cousin WaisaleSerevi, who also started his career at halfback. Rauluni played for the Queensland...
film known for the series Justified and the film Hitman; in Honolulu WaisaleSerevi, Fijian rugby sevens star and World Rugby Hall of Fame member; in Suva...
24–21 in the Cup final with a sensational try in the final seconds to WaisaleSerevi. The participating teams were: The teams were drawn into four pools...
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of Sevens in Hong Kong. Campese was honoured alongside Jonah Lomu, WaisaleSerevi, Eric Rush, Christian Cullen, Ben Gollings and Zhang Zhiqiang. Campese...
playing for City Eagles. He was spotted one day by former Fiji 7's coach WaisaleSerevi who included him in the sevens team to the 2011 Pacific Games. After...
golfer, winner of three major championships. Tony Philp, windsurfer WaisaleSerevi, world-renowned sevens rugby player, is from Fiji. Commentators refer...
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