Editing Samoa (section)

===Sport===
{{See also|Sport in Samoa}}
[[File:Percy Montgomery against Samoa.jpg|thumb|Samoa (blue) vs. South Africa in June 2007]]
The main sports played in Samoa are [[rugby union]], [[Samoan cricket]] and [[netball]]. Rugby union is the national football code of Samoa. In Samoan villages, volleyball is also popular.

Rugby union is the national sport in Samoa and the [[Samoa national rugby union team|national team]], nicknamed the Manu Samoa, is consistently competitive against teams from vastly more populous nations. Samoa has competed at every [[Rugby World Cup]] since [[1991 Rugby World Cup|1991]], and made the quarter finals in 1991, [[1995 Rugby World Cup|1995]] and the second round of the [[1999 Rugby World Cup|1999]] World Cup.<ref>{{cite news |title=Rugby in Samoa |url=http://www.manusamoa.net/history.htm |work=ManuSamoa.net |access-date=26 November 2007 |archive-date=19 February 2012 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120219202744/http://www.manusamoa.net/history.htm |url-status=usurped}}</ref> At the 2003 world cup, Manu Samoa came close to beating eventual world champions, England. Samoa also played in the [[Pacific Nations Cup]] and the [[Pacific Tri-Nations]]. The sport is governed by the [[Samoa Rugby Football Union]], who are members of the [[Pacific Islands Rugby Alliance]], and thus, also contribute to the international [[Pacific Islanders rugby union team]].

At club level, there is the [[Samoa National Provincial Championship|National Provincial Championship]] and [[Pacific Rugby Cup]]. They also took home the cup at Wellington and the Hong Kong Rugby Sevens in 2007—for which the Prime Minister of Samoa, also chairman of the national rugby union, Tuila’epa Sa’ilele Malielegaoi, declared a national holiday. They were also the [[IRB World Sevens Series]] Champions in 2010 capping a year of achievement for the Samoans, following wins in the US, Australia, Hong Kong and Scotland Sevens tournaments.

Prominent Samoan players include [[Pat Lam]] and [[Brian Lima]]. In addition, many Samoans have played for or are playing for [[New Zealand national rugby union team|New Zealand]].

[[Samoa national rugby league team|The national rugby league team]] reached the quarter finals of the [[2013 Rugby League World Cup]], the team comprising players from the [[NRL]] and [[Super League]] plus domestic players. Many Samoans and New Zealanders or Australians of Samoan descent play in the Super League and National Leagues in Britain, including Francis Meli, Ta'ane Lavulavu of Workington Town, Maurie Fa'asavalu of St Helens, David Fatialofa of Whitehaven and Setaimata Sa, who signed with London Irish rugby club. Other noteworthy players from [[New Zealand|NZ]] and [[Australia]] have represented the [[Samoa national rugby league team|Samoan National team]]. The 2011 domestic Samoan rugby league competition contained 10 teams with plans to expand to 12 in 2012.<ref name="Rugby League Planet">{{cite web |work=rugbyleagueplanet.com |title=Samoa |url=http://rugbyleagueplanet.com/rugby-league-rlp/rlp-nations/samoa |access-date=20 September 2012 |archive-date=20 September 2012 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120920134235/http://rugbyleagueplanet.com/rugby-league-rlp/rlp-nations/samoa |url-status=live }}</ref>{{Failed verification|date=February 2020}}<ref>[https://www.rugbyleagueplanet.com/table/international-rugby-league-news/samoa 2019 Oceania Cup Preview - Toa Samoa] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200213190555/https://www.rugbyleagueplanet.com/table/international-rugby-league-news/samoa/ |date=13 February 2020 }} ''www.rugbyleagueplanet.com'', accessed 13 February 2020</ref> Samoa reached the final of the [[2021 Rugby League World Cup]] to face Australia.

Samoans have been very visible in [[boxing]], [[kickboxing]], [[Professional wrestling|wrestling]], and [[sumo]]; some Samoan sumo wrestlers, most famously [[Musashimaru]] and [[Konishiki]], have reached the highest rank of ''[[Oozeki|Ozeki]]'' and ''[[Yokozuna (sumo)|yokozuna]]''.

[[American football]] is occasionally played in Samoa, reflecting its wide popularity in [[American Samoa]], where the sport is played under high school sanction. About 30 ethnic Samoans, many from American Samoa, currently play in the [[National Football League]]. A 2002 article from ''[[ESPN]]'' estimated that a Samoan male (either an American Samoan or a Samoan living in the mainland United States) is 40 times more likely to play in the NFL than a non-Samoan American.<ref>{{cite news |title=American football, Samoan style |url=https://www.espn.com/gen/s/2002/0527/1387562.html |work=ESPN |access-date=26 November 2007 |archive-date=16 November 2007 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20071116125406/http://espn.go.com/gen/s/2002/0527/1387562.html |url-status=live }}</ref>