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Ilivasi "Sevia Tamanivalu" Tabua (born 30
September 1964) is the former Fiji Rugby Union coach. A former Australian rugby union footballer
and also a former Fijian rugby union footballer,
he used to play as a flanker.
Career
Tabua played for Australia sevens
team in the 1993 Sevens World Cup, after which he played for Australia in
fifteens in the 1995 Rugby World Cup. He has
played 10 test for Australia. In the
1999
Rugby World Cup he played for the Fiji team. He was nicknamed the
Human Skewer.
Personal
life
He was raised in a family of seven siblings five boys and two
girls. He spent the first 12 years of his childhood in the Lau group as his father's was a teacher
at one of the schools on the chiefly island. Ilivasi started school
at Mabula, Cicia in Lau before his family moved to the mainland in
the 1970s. His family settled at Naivicula, Tailevu where his father comes from. He
attended Marist Brothers High
School. In 1980, Ilivasi left to further his studies in Australia
Coaching
Career
After retiring from international rugby, he came back to Fiji to
help the Fiji team to prepare for the 2007
Rugby World Cup. He was recently appointed as the head coach of
Fiji's HPU and helped the former Fiji coach Wayne Pivac with the Fiji team, but when
Pivac resigned from Fiji rugby, Tabua was picked as the man to
replace him and he was chosen as the new coach.[1]. He was
also the first Fijian to be appointed the national coach to the Rugby World
Cup. He comes at the tail end of a succession of expatriates
including George Simpkin, Brad Johnstone, Greg Smith, Mac McCallion and Pivac who left in 2006.
On 19th August, 2009 Tabua was sacked by the Fiji Rugby
Union citing off-field incidents during Fiji's 2009 IRB Pacific Nations
Cup campaign.[2]
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