Enele "Henry" Tuilagi is a Samoan

Samoans

The Samoan people are a Polynesian ethnic group of the Samoan Islands, sharing genetics, language, history and culture. Due to colonialism, the home islands are politically and geographically divided between the country of Samoa, official name Independent State of Samoa ; and American Samoa, an...

 rugby union

Rugby union

Rugby union, often simply referred to as rugby, is a full contact team sport which originated in England in the early 19th century. One of the two codes of rugby football, it is based on running with the ball in hand...

 footballer. He currently plays for USA Perpignan

USA Perpignan

Union Sportive des Arlequins Perpignanais or Unió eSportiva Arlequins de Perpinyà , generally abbreviated as USAP in both languages, is a French rugby union club that plays in the city of Perpignan in Pyrénées-Orientales. The club currently competes in the Top 14, the top level of the French...

 in the French club competition, the Top 14, and has appeared four times for his national team Samoa

Samoa national rugby union team

The Manu Samoa is the men's representative side of the Samoa Rugby Union in both the 15's and the 7's for international competitions. The Samoa Rugby Union is owned by the affiliated rugby unions of Samoa. In Samoa, Manu Samoa is in honour of a famous Samoan warrior. From 1924 to 1997 Samoa was...

. He previously spent a year playing in the Italian super 10 competition for Parma as well as a spell in Rugby League

Rugby league

Rugby league football, usually called rugby league, is a full contact sport played by two teams of thirteen players on a rectangular grass field. One of the two codes of rugby football, it originated in England in 1895 by a split from Rugby Football Union over paying players...

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Tuilagi made 24 first team appearances during his first season with the Tigers. He scored a try

Try

A try is the major way of scoring points in rugby league and rugby union football. A try is scored by grounding the ball in the opposition's in-goal area...

 on his debut match for the Tigers against London Irish

London Irish

London Irish RFC is an English rugby union club based in Sunbury, Surrey, where the senior squad train, the youth teams and senior academy play home games, and the club maintain their administrative offices. The senior squad play home games at the Madejski Stadium in Reading and compete in the top...

. He soon established himself firmly in the Tigers lineup, but his next season was cut short with a broken leg in the final home game against the London Wasps

London Wasps

London Wasps is an English professional rugby union team. The men's first team, which forms London Wasps, was derived from Wasps Football Club who were formed in 1867 at the now defunct Eton and Middlesex Tavern in North London, at the turn of professionalism in 1999...

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The Tuilagi family has strong connections with Leicester Tigers; Henry's brother Alesana (Alex)

Alesana Tuilagi

Alesana "Alex" Tuilagi is a Samoan rugby union footballer. He currently plays for the Leicester Tigers in the English club competition, the Aviva Premiership, and has appeared numerous times for his national team Samoa...

 plays for Leicester, and his brothers Fereti (Freddie)

Freddie Tuilagi

Fereti Tuilagi is a former Samoan rugby union Rugby player who previously played rugby league for Halifax Blue Sox and St. Helens. He played as a wing or centre and now is currently retired...

 and Anitelea (Andy) are former players. Younger brothers Sanele Vavae Tuilagi

Sanele Vavae Tuilagi

Sanele Vavae Tuilagi is a Samoan professional rugby union player. Sanele is the younger brother of Henry, Freddie, Alesana and Anitelea Tuilagi who are all Samoan internationals. He is also the older brother of Manu Tuilagi, an England international.Sanele played for the Samoan National U-20 team...

 (Currently on loan at Coventry R.F.C.

Coventry

Coventry is a city and metropolitan borough in the county of West Midlands in England. Coventry is the 9th largest city in England and the 11th largest in the United Kingdom. It is also the second largest city in the English Midlands, after Birmingham, with a population of 300,848, although...

) and Manu

Manu Tuilagi

Manu Samoa Tuilagi is a Samoan born British professional rugby union player who currently plays for Aviva Premiership side Leicester Tigers...

 are also involved with Leicester. Manu began his first season with Leicester in 2010/2011 and made his debut for England in August 2011.

He was recently named in the Pacific Islanders rugby union team

Pacific Islanders rugby union team

The Pacific Islanders rugby union team is an international rugby union team, started in 2004, that represents Fiji, Samoa and Tonga. While Niue and the Cook Islands are not members of the Pacific Tri-Nations competition, they did supply players to the squad for the Pacific Islanders' tour in 2004...

 to tour Europe during the end of the year (date? out of date?).

External links

• USAP profile on fr.usap.fr (fr)
• Henry Tuilagi on tigers.co.uk
• Manu Samoa supporters website
• Pacific Islanders Rugby Teams supporters website