Alopua Petoa

Alopua Petoa (born 24 January 1990 in Nauru) is a Tuvaluan footballer who currently plays for Auckland City FC, a club from New Zealand.

Personal life
Alopua is the cousin of Falefou Tapugao Jr. Alopua is born in Nauru.

Club career
Alopua played its entire career for FC Tofaga. On 5 October 2012 he arrived at Schiphol, Amsterdam, for a training period of 3 months in the Netherlands. During these months he will train together with Vaisua Liva, at the second team of VV Brabantia. The aim of the training is to improve the quality of both football players and to prepare scouting reports for Clubs in New Zealand. Aim is to make both players the first Semi-Pro footballers of Tuvalu. Besides training and playing for the second team of VV Brabantia both players also will follow intensive training courses to become youth football coaches and they will visit several matches of Dutch professional clubs. Since 2013 Alopua Playes for New Zealand site Auckland City FC

International career
He made his debut in the match against Samoa on August 22, 2011, which Tuvalu won 3-0. He scored all three goals. In the following game against American Samoa at the 2011 Pacific Games, he scored a further hat-trick. He played in four games in 2011.