Maritino Nemani

Nemani is the kind of athlete I find quietly compelling. A Fiji-born winger who plied his trade in New Zealand for the Chiefs and Bay of Plenty, he embodies the beautiful, borderless logic of Pacific rugby. I picture the trademark island footwork: the half-step, the gather, the sudden burst down the touchline. We celebrate the headline names, but it's wingers like Nemani, doing the unglamorous chasing and the rare electric break, who give the game its texture. I respect a career spent letting the work on the pitch speak for itself.

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Name (English)

Maritino Nemani

Name (Japanese)

マリティノ・ネマニ

Reading

まりてぃの・ねまに

Born

May 25, 1991 (age 35)

Origin

Fiji

Height

181 cm

Occupation

rugby union player

Zodiac / Chinese zodiac

Gemini / Goat

University

Sacred Heart College, Auckland

• Wikipedia (English)https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maritino%20Nemani
• Wikipedia (Japanese)https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E3%83%9E%E3%83%AA%E3%83%86%E3%82%A3%E3%83%8E%E3%83%BB%E3%83%8D%E3%83%9E%E3%83%8B
• Wikidatahttps://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q16234072

Tags

• rugby union player

Last updated

November 2, 2026

Only publicly available facts are listed; non-public or unconfirmed items are omitted. Base data was compiled from Wikidata from June 2026 onward; ages are recalculated daily and deaths are checked against Wikidata on an ongoing basis. English text is machine-assisted (facts translated by Sonnet, "My Take" written by Opus 4.8). The Japanese page is the source of record.