Paulo Nawalu
Date of birth (1958-10-18) October 18, 1958
Place of birthLautoka, Fiji
Height5 ft 11 in (1.80 m)
Weight201 lb (91 kg)
Rugby union career
Position(s) Scrum-half
Amateur team(s)
Years Team Apps (Points)
1970-1972
1973-1977
1978-1980		 Nailili Catholic Mission School
Marist Brothers High School
Corpus Christi Teachers Colts		 ()
Senior career
Years Team Apps (Points)
1978-1990
1981-1990
1990-2000
2000-2012		 St. John's Marist Club
Suva
Hino Motors
Kawagoe Fighters		 ()
International career
Years Team Apps (Points)
1983-1989  Fiji 17 (7)
National sevens team(s)
Years Team Comps
1992-1995 Japan
Coaching career
Years Team
1981-1989
1991-1999
1992-2001
2000-2012
2002-2013 (Skill Coach)
2015-		 Cathedral Secondary High School (senior team)
Hino Motors
Japan 7s
Hakuoh University
Japan 7s
Karada Factory A.P. Pirates

Paulo Nawalu, spelt also as Paula Nawalu (born October 18, 1959 in Lautoka) is a former rugby union player. He played as a scrum-half.

Career

His first international match was against Tonga, at Suva, on June 8, 1983. He was also part of the 1987 Rugby World Cup roster, as well of the South Pacific Barbarians during their 1987 tour in South Africa. Later, Nawalu played for the Japan national rugby sevens team, with which he played the 1993 Rugby World Cup Sevens.[1] Nawalu was the first Fijian player to play in a Japanese team, when he played for Hino Motors.[2]

Coaching career

He trained the Japan national rugby sevens team during the 1997 and the 2001 Rugby World Cup Sevens. Currently, since 2015, he is coaching Karada Factory A.P. Pirates, a Japanese women's rugby sevens team.[3]

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