High Profile Players
Aaron Edwards is a professional Samoan football player in the Australian Football League.
Fia Tootoo has represented Samoa on numerous occasions in the Australian Football International Cup and plays football semi-professionally in Australia.
Rambo Tavana and Mikaele Pesamino began as Samoa Rules juniors, playing for Samoa in the 2002 Australian Football International Cup and now represent Samoa in rugby union.
Former National Rugby League player Karmichael Hunt, who was recruited in 2009 to the Gold Coast Football Club, is of partial Samoan descent, although he has not been involved with Australian rules football in Samoa itself.
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