Paulo Nawalu

Paulo Nawalu
Date of birth	October 18, 1958 (age 66)
Place of birth	Lautoka, Fiji
Height	5 ft 11 in (1.80 m)
Weight	201 lb (91 kg)
Rugby union career
Position(s)
Position(s)	Scrum-half
Amateur team(s)
Years	Team
1970-1972	Nailili Catholic Mission School
1973-1977	Marist Brothers High School
1978-1980	Corpus Christi Teachers Colts
Senior career
Years	Team
1978-1990	St. John's Marist Club
1981-1990	Suva
1990-2000	Hino Motors
2000-2012	Kawagoe Fighters
International career
Years	Team
1983-1989	Fiji
National sevens team
Years	Team
1992-1995	Japan
Coaching career
Years	Team
1981-1989	Cathedral Secondary High School (senior team)
1991-1999	Hino Motors
1992-2001	Japan 7s
2000-2012	Hakuoh University
2002-2013 (Skill Coach)	Japan 7s
2015-	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]

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]