Lakapi Samoa News Today

Singapore 7s? When was that? For a nation that used to keep abreast with all the international sevens tournaments, people have chosen to forget about the World Sevens Series.But who could blame them? The Manu Samoa sevens team has not done particularly well this year. The only achievement the tea...

It was a difficult game to watch as the Japan XV, most of them below the age of 20, hammered the Manuma Samoa side 48-5. A 43-point difference and zero points were scored in the second half.Where did Manuma Samoa go wrong? Simple, everywhere. The first thing was that there was not enough respect ...

Samoan international and former All Blacks Lima Sopoaga spoke about the bitter taste left after the appointment of a new coach for Manu Samoa coach Mase Mahonri Shwalger and how easily Vaovasamanaia Seilala Mapusua was replaced.He talks about a backlash from international players and most of them...

Excitement filled the air at the Faleolo International Airport as Lakapi Samoa and the nation welcomed three international teams contesting in the World Rugby Pacific Challenge bringing more than 100 players and officials to Samoa.The teams, Fiji Warriors, Japan XV, and Tonga were officially gree...

There is now a pathway for young Samoan rugby players to move to the next level, an opportunity that never existed and this is being done through Oceania Rugby and Moana Pasifika.The two have partnered to launch a new age-grade competition called the Oceania Rugby U20s Challenge. It aims to provi...

The Samoa Rugby Union - Lakapi Samoa - will meet this week to discuss requests for salaries and allowances from members of the Manu Samoa Sevens team.

Sports is no longer an amateur field, it is a profession, an employment, and in many of these fields, it comes with contracts. It is only fair that the Manu Samoa sevens players are contracted and paid a salary where all of the employment clauses apply.Just paying them allowance without superannu...

The man who has been at the helm of Lakapi Samoa has been given a one-year extension on his contract after the board meeting last week, the Samoa Observer can reveal. Faleomavaega Titimaea Tafua, a board member of Lakapi Samoa and former coach of Manu Samoa, responded to queries from this newspap...

Head Coach of the Manu Samoa Sevens Team, Muliagatele Brian Lima has reassured the public that the information circulating on social media and the accusations of mistreatment of players are false.The Manu Samoa legend and World Rugby Hall of Famer told this newspaper in an exclusive interview las...

Lakapi Samoa has never held a player back from signing a contract with an overseas club said Chief Executive Officer Faleomavaega Vincent Fepulea'i responding to allegations by a former Manu Samoa player, Elija Niko.Niko claimed that the management was holding back players from signing overseas c...