Date of birth | 2 December 1990 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Place of birth | Waya, Fiji | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Height | 189 cm (6 ft 2 in) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Weight | 101 kg (223 lb; 15 st 13 lb) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
School | Nadi Muslim College | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Kalione Nasoko MOF [1] (born 2 December 1990) is the current captain of the Fiji national rugby sevens team to the 2018 Oceania Sevens Championship and the 2018 Dubai Sevens.[2] Nasoko was awarded player of the final at the 2017 Hong Kong Sevens Tournament[3] where Fiji beat the South Africa Sevens Team 22-0.[4] Nasoko made his debut for Fiji at the 2016 Dubai Sevens.[5]
Nasoko grew up on the Island of Yawa Levu,[6] an island formed on a volcanic ridge at the southern tip of the Yasawa group of Islands in Fiji. Nasoko's early education was at Ratu Naivalu Memorial School, the only school on Waya Island, a two-hour trek along mountainous terrain.[7]