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Junior Malili Muliaina, known as Mils, is an international rugby union player for the New Zealand All Blacks. He was born on 31 July 1980 in Salesi, Western Samoa, but moved with his family to Invercargill at the age of 3. He attended Southland Boys' High School, where he proved proficient enough at rugby to be offered a scholarship to Kelston Boys' High School in Auckland, in 1998.
Subsequently, Muliaina played for the NZ Secondary Schools XV, the team winning that year's world championship. He repeated this the following year with the world champion Under 19 side, and in 2000 and 2001 was part of the world champion Under 21 (NZ Colt) teams of those years.
Muliaina joined the Auckland Blues Super 12 team in 2001 and was a part of the Super 12 title winning team for that franchise in 2003.
Muliaina's test debut for the All Blacks was against England on June 14 2003 at the Westpac Stadium in Wellington. He was subsequently part of the All Black squad at the 2003 Rugby World Cup. In 2004, he was the only player to be selected for every test played by the All Blacks.
Muliaina has also played in 11 tournaments for the New Zealand national rugby sevens team, including winning a Commonwealth Games gold medal in 2002 in Manchester.
Though he has expressed a preference for playing as an outside centre, Muliaina generally plays at fullback, a position in which he is now considered to be one of the best in the world.
Muliaina is 1.83m tall and weighs 84kg.
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