Desmond Fa'aiuaso is a Football striker

Striker

Forwards, also known as strikers, are the players on a team in association football who play nearest to the opposing team's goal, and are therefore principally responsible for scoring goals...

 from Samoa

Samoa

Samoa , officially the Independent State of Samoa, formerly known as Western Samoa is a country encompassing the western part of the Samoan Islands in the South Pacific Ocean. It became independent from New Zealand in 1962. The two main islands of Samoa are Upolu and one of the biggest islands in...

 who currently plays for ASB Premiership team YoungHeart Manawatu

YoungHeart Manawatu

YoungHeart Manawatu is a football club is based in Palmerston North, New Zealand. It participates in the ASB Premiership and their home ground is Memorial Park.- History :...

. He will play the New Zealand winter season with Team Taranaki

Team Taranaki

Team Taranaki is an semi-professional association football club based in the Taranaki region, New Zealand and they are competing in the Central Premier League....

 in the Central Premier League

Central Premier League

The Central League is a semi-professional status league competition run by for Association football clubs located in the southern and central parts of the North Island, New Zealand...

Club career

Fa'aiuaso had his first stint in international football with Tahiti

Tahiti

Tahiti is the largest island in the Windward group of French Polynesia, located in the archipelago of the Society Islands in the southern Pacific Ocean. It is the economic, cultural and political centre of French Polynesia. The island was formed from volcanic activity and is high and mountainous...

 side AS Pirae

AS Pirae

AS Pirae is a football team from Pirae in Tahiti. They are one of the most successful teams in Tahiti having won the Tahiti Division Fédérale seven times...

 and signed up with Manawatu for the 2009-2010 season to form an all South Pacific strikeforce with Vanuatuan striker Seule Soromon

Seule Soromon

Seule Soromon is an association football striker from Vanuatu who currently plays for ASB Premiership team YoungHeart Manawatu.He hails from Mele, which is located northwest of Port Vila.-Club career:...

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International career

He made his debut for Samoa

Samoa national football team

The Samoa national association football team represents Samoa in association football and is controlled by the Football Federation Samoa, the governing body for football in Samoa. Samoa's home ground is Toleafoa J.S Blatter Soccer Stadium in Apia. It was known as the Western Samoa national...

 in an April 2001 FIFA World Cup qualification

FIFA World Cup qualification

The FIFA World Cup qualification is the process that a national association football team goes through to qualify for the FIFA World Cup Finals. The FIFA World Cup is a global event, so qualification is required to reduce the large field of participants from about 200 to 32.Qualifying tournaments...

 match against Tonga

Tonga national football team

The Tonga national football team is the national team of Tonga and is controlled by the Tonga Football Association.-Football in Tonga:Tonga's greatest football triumph to date was their triumph in the first ever Polynesian Cup held in 1993 over Samoa and the Cook Islands...

 and scored four goals in his second international, against American Samoa.

External links

• Player profile - YoungHeart Manawatu
• NZFC stats - NZFC
• Career stats - National Football Teams