Who is Manu Tuilagi?
Manu Tuilagi, known as Etuale Manusamoa Tuilagi is a well-known rugby union player for Sale Sharks. Tuilagi has played internationally for England and the British $ Irish Lions. He was born in Fogapoa, Samoa, and qualified for England by residency, having moved there at the age of 12, and in 2014 became a British citizen.
Tuilagi earned 43 caps between 2011 and 2020, comprising playing in the 2011 Rugby World Cup and beginning in the 2019 Rugby World Cup Final. He then played for the Lions on their 2013 tour to Australia, winning 1 cap, and his usual position is center.
Manu Tuilagi Career
Club career
Leicester Tigers
In 2009, Manu represented Leicester in the Middlesex Sevens at Twickenham. He played for Leicester Tigers over South Africa at Welford Road on November 6, 2009, with Leicester winning 22-17. Tuilagi started his first season, 2010-11, with the senior Tigers side. Tigers Director of Rugby Richard Cockerill stated that he expected Manu to be a first-team regular and to play for England before long. In the season, he began the majority of games for the Tigers and was called up for England Saxons duty.
In their Premiership semi-final against Northampton Saints, on May 14, 2011, he earned a yellow card for punching Chris Ashton. He was then cited for this offense and given a 10-week ban, later reduced to 4 weeks. He later started the 2013 Premiership final and scored a try as Leicester beat Northampton Saints. Following injuring his hamstring in late 2014, he did not play for the Tigers again until January 2016. He made his comeback off the bench in the 30-27 East Midlands derby victory against Northampton Saints. Manu then played for the rest of the 2015/16 season. However, his injury issues went on and he was sidelined for most of the 2016/17 season with knee problems.
Manu later made his comeback in the first game of 2017/18, only to suffer a new injury to his other knee. Trying to cure his injury problems, he visited a Samoan witch doctor in November 2017, the doctor claimed to have found 3 spirits that had married him and were causing the injuries. The witch doctor massaged him for two hours a day for 4 days to block the spirits. He exited Leicester Tigers following not agreeing to a reduced wage package, on July 10, 2020, amid the financial challenges caused to the club by the coronavirus pandemic.
Sale Sharks
Manu agreed to join Sal Sharks on July 13, 2020, on a 1-year contract until the end of the 2020-21 season. Since then, he has extended his deal for a further 2 seasons.
How old is Manu Tuilagi?
Etuale Manusamoa Tuilagi was born on May 18, 1991, in Fogapoa, Savai’i, Samoa, and is aged 31 years as of 2022. He shares his birthday with celebrities including Armon Warren, Ryan Clements, Caroline Gregory, Jack Johnson, Tina Fey, Chow Yun-Fat, Reggie Jackson, Yannick Noah, and many more.
Manu Tuilagi Family
Who are Manu Tuilagi’s parents?
Etuale Manusamoa Tuilagi was born in Fogapoa, Savai’i to Samoan parents. The family then moved to England when he was aged 12 years, where his brothers were playing rugby. No information is available about his parents to the media as he has kept it a secret.
Does Manu Tuilagi have siblings?
Tuilagi was born in a family of six Samoan children, and one fa’afafine child. He has six siblings, five older Samoan brothers, Freddie Tuilagi, Henry Tuilagi, Alesana Tuilagi, Anite’ea Tuilagi, and Sanele Vavae Tuilagi, and one fa’afafine brother named Julie Tuilagi. His brothers had moved to the UK, before him and played rugby there, with Freddie then playing for the Cardiff Blues.
Manu Tuilagi Education
Tuilagi attended John Cleveland College, where he also played college rugby. He has not shared more information about his educational background with the media.
Manu Tuilagi Wife
Tuilagi is currently in a relationship with his partner and wife Chantelle Garrity. They started dating in 2012, and engaged on Christmas of 2017, before marrying the same year.
Manu Tuilagi Children
Tuilagi and his wife Garrity have been happily married with two children together. The couple has two children, a daughter named Leilani Lea’auta Tuilagi, and a son named Leo Vavae Tuilagi. He is also an uncle to Fred Tuilagi.
Manu Tuilagi Height
Tuilagi has a well-built, muscular, and athletic body adding up to a height of 1.85 m (6 ft 1 in) and a weight of 242 lbs (109 kg).
International career
Manu grew up in England and preferred to play rugby for it internationally. He was picked to begin the England Saxons game over Italy ‘A’ in January 2011, scoring a second-half try in a match that England won 45-17. Tuilagi was then named to England’s training team for the 2011 Rugby World Cup in June 2011. He has also been involved with the England Sevens team. Tuilagi played for an England seven which won the London Floodlit Sevens, playing under the name ‘Dip Deep England’ in May 2010. Manu then made his England debut in the World Cup warm-up game against Wales at Twickenham on August 6, 2011. Among the starting 15, he scored a try in the 44th minute underneath the posts after an inside pass from Jonny Wilkinson. Manu later played in the 3rd warm-up game, a win against Ireland, and scored again.
Tuilagi was a regular starter during the World Cup. One of his strongest international performances was in the final game of the 2012 Autumn Internationals, over the World Cup winners New Zealand at Twickenham. England won 38-21-their largest-ever winning margin against the All Blacks. He featured in all 3 of England’s tries.
2013-present
Manu was then named in the Lions team for their 2013 tour to Australia. He then played against Western Force, Queensland Reds, and Melbourne Rebels. Tuilagi also played in the 3rd test against the Wallabies, when he came on as a sub in the 69th minute. He came back to the England team in March 2016 for the 2016 Six Nations Championship following not playing for the national side because of injury and disciplinary reasons since June 2014. Mau was then ruled out of England’s tour of Australia because of an injury suffered in a Premiership semifinal defeat to Saracens.
Manu came back to the England squad in 2018 and came off the bench in a 37-18 victory over Australia to earn his 28th cap. Following a string of strong performances for club team Leicester Tigers, he was included in the England team for the 201 Six Nations that ultimately completed in 2nd place, runners up to Grand Slam winners Wales. He was then named in the England team for the 2022 autumn internationals and played in all 4 games winning his 50th cap in a 27-13 defeat to South Africa.
Manu Tuilagi Net Worth
Professional rugby player Tuilagi plays for Sale Sharks and has been active from 2009 to the present. He has garnered an accumulative net worth of around $5 million as of 2023.
