Paulo Nawalu

Paulo Nawalu
Date of birth	October 18, 1958 (age 65)
Place of birth	Lautoka, Fiji
Height	5 ft 11 in (1.80 m)
Weight	201 lb (91 kg)
Rugby union career
Position(s)
Position(s)	Scrum-half
Amateur team(s)
Years	Team
1970-1972; 1973-1977; 1978-1980	Nailili Catholic Mission School ; Marist Brothers High School; Corpus Christi Teachers Colts
Senior career
Years	Team
1978-1990; 1981-1990; 1990-2000; 2000-2012	St. John's Marist Club; Suva; Hino Motors; Kawagoe Fighters
International career
Years	Team
1983-1989	Fiji
National sevens team
Years	Team
1992-1995	Japan
Coaching career
Years	Team
1981-1989; 1991-1999; 1992-2001; 2000-2012; 2002-2013 (Skill Coach); 2015-	Cathedral Secondary High School (senior team); Hino Motors; Japan 7s; Hakuoh University; Japan 7s; Karada Factory A.P. Pirates

Paulo Nawalu, spelt also as Paula Nawalu (born October 18, 1959 in Lautoka) is a former rugby union player. He played as a scrum-half.

Career edit

His first international match was against Tonga, at Suva, on June 8, 1983. He was also part of the 1987 Rugby World Cup roster, as well of the South Pacific Barbarians during their 1987 tour in South Africa. Later, Nawalu played for the Japan national rugby sevens team, with which he played the 1993 Rugby World Cup Sevens.^[1] Nawalu was the first Fijian player to play in a Japanese team, when he played for Hino Motors.^[2]

He trained the Japan national rugby sevens team during the 1997 and the 2001 Rugby World Cup Sevens. Currently, since 2015, he is coaching Karada Factory A.P. Pirates, a Japanese women's rugby sevens team.^[3]