Piri Weepu

As of June 30, 2007 National August 1, 2009

Piri Weepu Awahou Tihou (born 7 September 1983) is a New Zealand rugby union player at the position of scrum half. He plays for the All Blacks on international level, Wellington Lions in the Air New Zealand Cup and for the Hurricanes in the Super 14

2004 Weepu received the honor of playing for the All Blacks against Wales for the first time. In 2005 he was recalled to the squad of the All Blacks to play in the first Tri Nations game against the South African Springboks, although he had not been previously against the British and Irish Lions in the squad.

He played club rugby with Hutt Old Boys, under the wing of his mentor DB ( Lower Hutt Rugby legend Derek Bruce ), he also went to the Te Aute College. During the Super 14 Final, Piri Weepu in 2006 made ​​a bad tackle and was here passed out. Because of the dense fog which prevailed during the match, the team doctors could not realize that he was actually no longer play again and so they allowed him to continue playing. Later Weepu announced that he can not remember the whole game.

Weepu based his game on his strength. He is a scrum - half extremely strong and hard, but it appears his physical abilities, his agility or speed and thus not to affect his game. He is regarded as one of the most talented scrum Halbs from New Zealand, as he has the skills of a good kickers, which is very unusual for this position, also he can play for his rugby league background as No. 10 ( compound semiconductor ).