Samisoni Viriviri (rugby union coach) and Irish Lions in Suva. Between 1989 and 1991, Viriviri coached the Fiji national rugby union team, which he coached during the 1991 Rugby World Cup. Samisoni Viriviri (rugby union coach) Samisoni Viriviri was a former Fijian rugby player and coach. He played as a scrum-half. He is grandfather of his namesake, who plays as wing for Fiji. His first cap for Fiji was during a match against Australia, at Brisbane, on June 9, 1976. His last cap was during a match against England XV, at Twickenham, on October 16, 1982. In his career he played 24 matches and scored
Rugby union in Yugoslavia Serbian clubs switch to rugby union to unite Yugoslavia under one form of rugby football in 1964. Yugoslav rugby did not enjoy high reputation. For example, in 1988, an anonymous French rugby official joked that "one of the FIRA nightmares... is to have playing refereed by a Soviet." Yugoslavia was not invited to the first Rugby World Cup in 1987, and did not qualify for the second in 1991. The former All Black scrum half Chris Laidlaw, writing at the end of the 1970s, saw rugby as a positive force in east-west relations at the time: Yugoslavia affiliated to the