{"id":194342,"date":"2025-10-07T00:30:10","date_gmt":"2025-10-07T00:30:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/194342\/"},"modified":"2025-10-07T00:30:10","modified_gmt":"2025-10-07T00:30:10","slug":"nrl-2025-pacific-championships-2025-samoa-squad-jarome-luai","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/194342\/","title":{"rendered":"NRL 2025, Pacific Championships 2025, Samoa squad, Jarome Luai"},"content":{"rendered":"

Rugby League Samoa has named the Toa Samoa squad for the upcoming 2025 Pacific Championships.<\/p>\n

Head coach Ben Gardiner has selected a strong and well-balanced squad, blending exciting young talent with experienced international performers.<\/p>\n

Toa Samoa will open their Pacific Championships campaign with a blockbuster clash against New Zealand on Sunday, 19 October at Go Media Stadium in Auckland, before reigniting their rivalry with Tonga on Sunday, 26 October at Suncorp Stadium in Brisbane.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe\u2019re really excited about this squad. We\u2019ve selected players who are not only in form but genuinely passionate about representing Samoa,\u201d Gardiner said.<\/p>\n


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\u201cThey understand the responsibility and the opportunity, and we\u2019re looking forward to the Pacific Championships.\u201d<\/p>\n

Toa Samoa squad (alphabetical)<\/p>\n

Ata Mariota* (Raiders)
\nBenaiah Ioelu* (Roosters)
\nBlaize Talagi-Seuala (Panthers)
\nBrian To\u2019o (Panthers)
\nChanel Harris-Tavita (Warriors)
\nDeine Mariner (Broncos)
\nFrancis Molo (Dolphins)
\nIzack Tago (Panthers)
\nJarome Luai (Wests Tigers)
\nJaydn Su\u2019A (Dragons)
\nJazz Tevaga (Sea Eagles)
\nJeremiah Nanai (Cowboys)
\nJosh Papalii (Raiders)
\nJunior Paulo (Eels)
\nLyhkan King-Togia* (Dragons)
\nMurray Taulagi (Cowboys)
\nPayne Haas* (Broncos)
\nRoger Tuivasa-Sheck (Warriors)
\nSimi Sasagi (Raiders)
\nTaylan May (Wests Tigers)
\nTerrell May (Wests Tigers)
* denotes debutant<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Rugby League Samoa has named the Toa Samoa squad for the upcoming 2025 Pacific Championships. Head coach Ben…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":194343,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[43,44,41,39,42,40],"class_list":["post-194342","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headlines","tag-headlines","tag-news","tag-top-news","tag-top-stories","tag-topnews","tag-topstories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/194342","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=194342"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/194342\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/194343"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=194342"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=194342"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=194342"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}