Esava Ratugolea


Esava Ratugolea is a professional Australian rules footballer playing for the Geelong Football Club in the Australian Football League. Ratugolea was drafted by Geelong with their third pick and forty-third overall in the 2016 national draft. Ratugolea made his debut in the three point win against at the Melbourne Cricket Ground and kicked his first AFL goal.
Ratugolea was born in Griffith, New South Wales. His parents are Fijian, and arrived in Australia a few years before his birth. At the age of six, Ratugolea moved to Cobram, Victoria. He only began playing football in 2011, after previously playing rugby and soccer.