Sio Siua Taukeiaho

Sio Siua Taukeiaho

Personal information
Nickname	TKO[1]
Born	3 January 1992 Auckland, New Zealand
Height	184 cm (6 ft 0 in)
Weight	101 kg (15 st 13 lb)
Playing information
Position	Lock, Second-row, Centre
Club
Years	Team	Pld	T	G	FG	P
2013	NZ Warriors	1	0	0	0	0
2015–	Sydney Roosters	33	2	2	0	12
	Total	34	2	2	0	12
Representative
Years	Team	Pld	T	G	FG	P
2014	Tonga	2	0	0	0	0
2015	New Zealand	1	0	0	0	0
As of 17 March 2016
Source: [2]

Sio Siua Taukeiaho (born 3 January 1992) is a New Zealand professional rugby league footballer who currently plays for the Sydney Roosters in the National Rugby League. He primarily plays at lock and second-row, but can also fill in at centre and previously played for the New Zealand Warriors.

Playing career

Taukeiaho is of Tongan descent and played for the Otara Scorpions in 2010 before being signed by the New Zealand Warriors.^[3] He played in the 2011 Toyota Cup winning Junior Warriors and was named in the Junior Kiwis that year.

He made his first grade debut in round 26 against the St. George Illawarra Dragons on 7 September 2013.

At the end of the 2013 season he requested, and was granted, his release from the Warriors.^[4] Taukeiaho would then tweet on the 27 September 2013 that he signed with the Roosters for two years.^[5] Taukeiaho came into the 2015 NRL season as the Roosters' replacement for the departed Sonny Bill Williams.^[6]

Taukeiaho played for Tonga against Papua New Guinea in an end of year test match in the PNG while on 2 May 2015 in the Gold Coast, he played for Tonga in their Polynesian Cup clash with Pacific rivals Samoa.

References

1. "Sio Siua Taukeiaho Making Most of NRL Shot with the Roosters After Escaping His Tough Childhood". Dailytelegraph.com.au. Retrieved 2015-11-01.
2. Shawn Dollin and Andrew Ferguson (25 October 2015). "Siosiua Taukeiaho". Rugbyleagueproject.org.
4. "Taukeiaho granted early release". Archived from the original on October 2, 2013. Retrieved February 4, 2016.
5. Taukeiaho, Sio Siua. "SIO SIUA TAUKEIAHO MOVES TO THE ROOSTERS". Twitter. Sio Siua Taukeiaho. Retrieved 29 October 2013.
6. Mark Ashton (31 August 2015). "Young Kiwi attacks Warriors". Sportal. Retrieved 31 August 2015.

External links

• 2015 Sydney Roosters profile