Photo: Australian Embassy in Fiji / CC BY 4.0 (source: Wikimedia Commons)
My Take
Marika Koroibete fascinates me because he's a dual-code player, which is rare and demanding. Fijian-born, he played rugby league for Melbourne Storm and Wests Tigers in the NRL, then crossed into rugby union and ended up a winger for Australia and Japan's Saitama Wild Knights. That kind of code-switching takes serious athletic intelligence, not just speed. I'm also struck by the international journey, from a Fiji league cap to representing the Wallabies and playing club rugby in Japan. The data file oddly lists him as American, which doesn't match the Fiji-Australia-Japan thread at all. The actual story is far more interesting than that tag suggests.
Overview
Marika Koroibete (born 26 July 1992) is a dual-code international rugby league and rugby union footballer. He plays for the Australia national rugby union team, and plays as a winger for Japanese rugby union club the Saitama Wild Knights. Koroibete previously played rugby league for the Melbourne Storm and Wests Tigers in the NRL, and was a member of the Fiji national rugby league team.
Summary adapted from Wikipedia, licensed under CC BY-SA 4.0.
1. Profile
- Name (English)
- Marika Koroibete
- Name (Japanese)
- マリカ・コロインベテ
- Reading
- まりか・ころいんべて
- Born
- June 26, 1992 (age 33)
- Zodiac / Chinese zodiac
- Cancer / Monkey
- Origin
- Fiji, United States
- Blood type
- Private
- Height
- 180 cm
- Agency
- Private
- Occupation
- rugby league player / rugby union player
2. Background
- Elementary school
- Private
- Junior high
- Private
- High school
- Private
- University
- Private
3. Relationships
- Spouse
- Private
- Children
- Private
- Parents
- Private
- Siblings
- Private
4. Personality
Motto
Private
6. Links
Rugby union player — see all → · More people from United States →
7. About this entry
Tags
- Last updated
- 2026-06-02
Facts are limited to publicly available information up to 2024; non-public items are marked "Private / Unknown". English text is machine-assisted (facts translated by Sonnet, "My Take" written by Opus 4.8). The Japanese page is the source of record.