{"id":71203,"date":"2025-08-15T21:55:10","date_gmt":"2025-08-15T21:55:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/71203\/"},"modified":"2025-08-15T21:55:10","modified_gmt":"2025-08-15T21:55:10","slug":"tino-faasuamaleaui-samoa-defection-international-representative-gold-coast-titans-future-news-videos-highlights","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/71203\/","title":{"rendered":"Tino Fa\u2019asuamaleaui, Samoa defection, international representative, Gold Coast Titans, future, news, videos, highlights"},"content":{"rendered":"

Samoa rugby league powerbrokers have reportedly held secret meeting with Titans star Tino Fa\u2019asuamaleaui \u2014 who is torn regarding his looming international eligibility decision.<\/p>\n

According to Code Sports<\/a>, Samoan bosses have continued their aggressive recruitment drive after it was revealed Payne Haas will defect from Kevin Walters\u2019 Kangaroos side.<\/p>\n

Fa\u2019asuamaleaui is reportedly weighing up his decision regarding his international future following his meetings.<\/p>\n

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The lure of representing Australia in an Ashes tour is one major factor, while the Gold Coats skipper also would reportedly love to help Samoa win the World Cup in 2026.<\/p>\n

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\u201cI think Tino is 50-50 right now,\u201d his manager Simon Mammino said.<\/p>\n

\u201cSamoa would love to have him and he is giving Samoa real consideration and rethinking what he does. Tino does love playing for Queensland and Australia.<\/p>\n

Samoa rugby league powerbrokers have reportedly held secret meeting with Titans star Tino Fa\u2019asuamaleaui.Source: News Corp Australia<\/p>\n

\u201cHe will catch-up with \u2018Kevvie\u2019 (new Australia coach Kevin Walters) and have a chat, because it is attractive to play in an Ashes series in England.\u201d<\/p>\n

However, there is the possibility Fa\u2019asuamaleaui could do both, defecting to Samoa after this year\u2019s Ashes series.<\/p>\n

Samoa bosses reportedly want all players on board to make their decision this year, with back-rower Jeremiah Nanai also reportedly making the decision to join Haas.<\/p>\n

Hamiso Tabuai-Fidow is another player being targeted by Samoa, with Fa\u2019asuamaleaui previously making a single appearance for the Pacific nation in 2019.<\/p>\n

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\u201cThere\u2019s no pressure on anyone. We\u2019re trying to get people that want to play for Samoa for the right reasons,\u201d Gardiner said.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt\u2019s no secret that we are trying to build an elite professional high-performance camp that takes into account the synergy of culture and religion, which is a very big part of the Samoan way.<\/p>\n

\u201cIf we do it the right way, players will want to come on board because it gives them a different experience to what they get at an NRL club.\u201d<\/p>\n

Fa\u2019asuamaleaui is also in the midst of a huge decision regarding his club future and he\u2019s set to hit the open market come November 1 and field mammoth offers from rivals.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Samoa rugby league powerbrokers have reportedly held secret meeting with Titans star Tino Fa\u2019asuamaleaui \u2014 who is torn…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":71204,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[568],"tags":[64,63,689,55888,4428,1208,2057,763,4612,53986,55890,55886,3194,1082,55889,761,762,3583,158,677,13390,55887,701,55884,25369,55882,55883,55885,46673,4439,85,53979,55881,1651],"class_list":["post-71203","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nrl","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-australia-and-new-zealand","tag-bosses-turn","tag-brisbane-broncos","tag-england","tag-europe","tag-fox-league","tag-gold-coast-titans","tag-golden-point-epic","tag-international-eligibility-decision","tag-international-representative","tag-kevin-walters","tag-latrell-mitchell","tag-looming-defection-call","tag-national-rugby-league","tag-nationalrugbyleague","tag-northern-europe","tag-nrl","tag-oceania","tag-payne-haas","tag-professional-high-performance-camp","tag-queensland","tag-real-consideration","tag-rugby-league-powerbrokers","tag-samoan-bosses","tag-samoan-way","tag-secret-meeting","tag-simon-mammino","tag-south-sydney-rabbitohs","tag-sports","tag-storm-skipper","tag-tino-faasuamaleaui","tag-wayne-bennett"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71203","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=71203"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71203\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/71204"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=71203"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=71203"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=71203"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}