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Willie Sauiluma

Samoan footballer

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionDec 4, 2025
Entity authorityQ87009213 ↗
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Willie Sauiluma (born 12 July 2000), is a Samoan international footballer who plays as a forward for the Samoa national football team and Goulburn Valley Suns.

Early life

Sauiluma was born in Samoa but grew up in Australia. in Australia he played for Shepparton South and the Goulburn Valley Suns.

Career

In June 2016 he was selected for the Samoa national under-17 football team for the 2017 OFC U-17 Championship. He captained the squad, and was subsequently selected to attend the second round in Tahiti. In June 2019 he was named to the squad for the 2019 Pacific Games. He also appeared for the Samoa U23s at the 2019 OFC Men's Olympic Qualifying Tournament.

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As of 3 March 2020.

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This entry incorporates text from “Willie Sauiluma” 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.