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Sisa Waqa is a Fijian 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...

and 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...

player. He is currently with the Melbourne Storm

Melbourne Storm

The Melbourne Storm are an Australian professional rugby league club based in the city of Melbourne. They are the first fully professional rugby league team based in the Australian rules football-dominated state of Victoria....

club in Australia National Rugby League

National Rugby League

The National Rugby League is the top league of professional rugby league football clubs in Australasia. The NRL's main competition, called the Telstra Premiership , is contested by sixteen teams, fifteen of which are based in Australia with one based in New Zealand...

.

Waqa grew up playing rugby league and represented Fiji

Fiji

Fiji , officially the Republic of Fiji , is an island nation in Melanesia in the South Pacific Ocean about northeast of New Zealand's North Island...

at under-19, under-21 and international level. He then moved to Sydney

Sydney

Sydney is the most populous city in Australia and the state capital of New South Wales. Sydney is located on Australia's south-east coast of the Tasman Sea. As of June 2010, the greater metropolitan area had an approximate population of 4.6 million people...

in 2008 where he played for Gordon RFC

Gordon RFC

Gordon Rugby Football Club are a rugby union club based on the North Shore of Sydney, New South Wales. The club, known as the Highlanders, play out of Chatswood Oval and compete in the New South Wales Rugby Union grade competition.-Club information:...

. He starred and was offered a contract with the ACT Brumbies in the Super 14 competition. Unfortunately for Waqa the ARU refused to register the contract as he had played for Fiji and was deemed an international. Instead he signed for the Sydney Roosters

Sydney Roosters

The Sydney Roosters are an Australian professional rugby league football club based in the Eastern Suburbs of Sydney. The club competes in the National Rugby League and is one of the oldest and most successful clubs in Australian rugby league history, having won twelve New South Wales Rugby League...

in the NRL for the 2009 season. Waqa then signed a three-year contract to play for French top-14 club Montauban

Montauban

Montauban is a commune in the Tarn-et-Garonne department in the Midi-Pyrénées region in southern France. It is the capital of the department and lies north of Toulouse....

, but that fell through due to the club experiencing financial difficulties. He then played in Sydney for the 2010 season in the local competition before Craig Bellamy was notified of his availability.

After a three-month trial during the pre-season Waqa was signed to a one-year contract after impressing throughout the trial matches against Canberra and Brisbane. Waqa has been playing in the NSW Cup for Melbourne Storm feeder team Cronulla-Sutherland Sharks who have a joint venture with the Melbourne Storm. On the wing, had a shaky start but has scored 4 tries in two games.
He made his debut by scoring a try when Melbourne Storm

Melbourne Storm

faced Brisbane Broncos

Brisbane Broncos

The Brisbane Broncos are an Australian professional rugby league football club based in the city of Brisbane, the capital of the state of Queensland. Founded in 1988, the Broncos play in Australasia's elite competition, the National Rugby League premiership. They have won six premierships and two...

at Suncorp Stadium Round 9 7/5/11. Waqa played in Round 12 against the Cronulla Sharks

Cronulla Sharks

The Cronulla-Sutherland Sharks are Australian professional Rugby league team based in Cronulla, in the Sutherland Shire, Southern Sydney, New South Wales...

against his NSW Cup team-mates, he scored a try and set up one for the Melbourne Storm

Melbourne Storm

. He played again in RND 13 against the South Sydney Rabbitohs

South Sydney Rabbitohs

The South Sydney Rabbitohs are an Australian professional rugby league football team based in Redfern, a suburb of South-central Sydney, New South Wales. They participate in the National Rugby League premiership and are one of nine existing teams from the state capital...

where he took an amazing AFL style catch and ran 30 metres, he also juggled a ball that was about to be dropped which led the Storm

Storm

A storm is any disturbed state of an astronomical body's atmosphere, especially affecting its surface, and strongly implying severe weather...

to score the game sealing try. Since then Waqa hasn't been dropped for any games. Waqa scored his third try for the Storm

Storm

A storm is any disturbed state of an astronomical body's atmosphere, especially affecting its surface, and strongly implying severe weather...

on the 9th of July in the Storm's 28-18 win over the Canterbury Bulldogs

Canterbury Bulldogs

The Canterbury-Bankstown Bulldogs are an Australian professional rugby league football club based in Belmore, a suburb in the Canterbury-Bankstown region of Sydney. They compete in the National Rugby League premiership, as well as New South Wales Rugby League junior competitions...

in Adelaide. He also scored a try in the Storm's 22-18 comeback win over the arramatta Eels]. Waqa was suspended for one week over the incident between Adam Blair

Adam Blair

Adam Blair is a New Zealand professional rugby league footballer currently contracted to the Melbourne Storm of the National Rugby League until 1 November 2011, when he will join the Wests Tigers. A New Zealand international representative forward, Blair spent six seasons with the Storm, winning...

and Glenn Stewart

Glenn Stewart

Glenn Stewart is an Australian professional rugby league footballer for the Manly-Warringah Sea Eagles of the National Rugby League . An Australian international and New South Wales State of Origin representative second-row forward, Stewart has played all of his club football to date with Manly,...

. He had come off the bench to pull players off and to assist Blair

Blair

Blair is a name of Scottish Gaelic origin, 'blàr' meaning field or plain. It may be either a first or last name. The following are some notable persons named Blair:- As a surname :* Anthony Blair , American hanged for murder...

in the 5 on 1 situation.

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