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    31 October 2013 | POSTED BY Carol Rees

    Latter-day Saint Rugby League Player Completes 'Incredible Journey to World Cup'

    “If not for the rugby league World Cup, Loto Tagaloa would be back home on the Hawaiian coast, educating tourists about the lifestyle of a typical Samoan man,” the New Zealand Herald reported recently.

    Polynesian Cultural Center

    He'd be there in the Polynesian Culture Center in Laie, performing dances to entertain visitors as they ate roast pig at a traditional Hawaiian feast, the luau.”

    “Instead, Tagaloa this week was more than 7,000 miles (11,000 kilometers) away in murky northwestern England, getting ready to impress scouts of the best club teams in Europe and the southern hemisphere and help his adopted United States make a splash at its first World Cup.”

    Read more in the New Zealand Herald.

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