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Sosefo Fifita

Australian rugby league footballer

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionSep 8, 2026
Entity authorityQ113100976 ↗
Source-derived summary

Sosefo "Jojo" Fifita (born 8 January 2003) is a New Zealand professional rugby league footballer who plays as a winger or centre for the Gold Coast Titans in the National Rugby League (NRL).

Background

Fifita is the son of former Tongan rugby star Pila Fifita and is of Aboriginal heritage. His second cousin, David Fifita, plays for the South Sydney Rabbitohs but previously played with him at the Titans. At three years of age, Sosefo moved to Japan when his father agreed to play for Munakata Sanix Blues before the family moved to Brisbane two years later. At 10 years of age, the Fifita family settled on the Gold Coast where Sosefo played junior rugby union for the Southport Eagles. Sosefo attended The Southport School where played rugby union in the prestigious GPS competition and would score four tries in a single game with Wallabies Head Coach Dave Rennie in attendance. Fifita is also a former U15 national junior sprint champion over 100 metres.

Playing career

2022

In June 2022, Fifita was selected for the Queensland Maroons U19s, starting at left centre in 32–4 loss to New South Wales Blues U19s. In round 18 of the 2022 NRL season, Fifita made his first grade debut for the Gold Coast against Brisbane, which the club lost 16–12.

2023

Fifita played a total of 14 matches for the Gold Coast in the 2023 NRL season and scored three tries as the club finished 14th on the table.

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“Sosefo Fifita” enters the record as australian rugby league footballer. Crown Archives preserves that source wording while asking what Sosefo, Fifita and Australian can confirm, complicate or overturn.

Editorial reviewA productive starting point for separating a subject’s documented career from later reputation and commemoration. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—2003, 2022, 2023—that can be checked directly. The linked authority record independently contributes the date 2003-01-08. Its strongest next move is a source search built around Sosefo, Fifita and Australian.
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“Sosefo Fifita” is worth following because a concise public description often conceals a longer documentary argument. Here, Sosefo, Fifita and Australian provides the most credible route into that argument.

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Chronology provides the most reliable spine for this subject; interpretation should follow only after identities and dates are secure. The source revision retrieved here is dated Sep 8, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q113100976. None of the 1 selected statements returned an explicit reference. The first chronological checks are 2003, 2022 and 2023.

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This entry incorporates text from “Sosefo Fifita” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.