{"id":82463,"date":"2025-08-20T12:57:11","date_gmt":"2025-08-20T12:57:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/82463\/"},"modified":"2025-08-20T12:57:11","modified_gmt":"2025-08-20T12:57:11","slug":"kangaroos-boost-tino-faasuamaleaui-expected-to-stay-in-green-and-gold-nrl-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/82463\/","title":{"rendered":"Kangaroos Boost: Tino Fa\u2019asuamaleaui expected to stay in Green and Gold – NRL News"},"content":{"rendered":"

Amid rumours surrounding his playing future, Gold Coast Titans<\/a> captain Tino Fa’asuamaleaui<\/a> has reportedly made a call on his international allegiance.<\/p>\n

Over the past few months, international eligibility has become a hot topic due to a number of big-name players boasting dual eligibility.<\/p>\n

AJ Brimson<\/a>\u00a0and\u00a0Billy Smith<\/a> have pledged their allegiance to England.<\/a> Payne Haas<\/a> has confirmed that he will be swapping the Australia<\/a>\u00a0jersey for the\u00a0Samoa<\/a>\u00a0jumper ahead of the\u00a02025 Pacific Championships<\/a>.<\/p>\n

As Australia<\/a> and Samoa<\/a> await a decision from Hamiso Tabuai-Fidow<\/a>, it has been revealed by The Daily Telegraph <\/a>that Tino Fa’asuamaleaui<\/a> has made a decision and is poised to remain in the Green and Gold, which will see him take on England<\/a> in the 2025 Ashes Series<\/a> at the end of the year.<\/p>\n

It is understood that an official decision made by Fa’asuamaleaui and his camp won’t happen until the end of the regular season.<\/p>\n

This comes after there were multiple rumours that the six-time Kangaroos representative was going to follow Payne Haas<\/a> in defecting back to Samoa<\/a>, where he played for in 2019 and boasts the likes of Jeremiah Nanai<\/a>, Jarome Luai<\/a> and Brian To’o<\/a>.<\/p>\n

“I haven’t made a decision at all. Hopefully, I get to that point at the end of the year where I get to select,” the Gold Coast forward said before reports emerged about his decision to play for the Kangaroos.<\/p>\n

“Queensland is probably the pinnacle in my career so far, and I think it always will be.<\/p>\n

“I love Queensland, but I’m just as passionate about my culture and the places that gave me an opportunity to grow up.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Amid rumours surrounding his playing future, Gold Coast Titans captain Tino Fa’asuamaleaui has reportedly made a call on…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":82464,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[568],"tags":[64,63,761,762,158,85],"class_list":["post-82463","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nrl","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-national-rugby-league","tag-nationalrugbyleague","tag-nrl","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/82463","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=82463"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/82463\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/82464"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=82463"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=82463"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=82463"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}