Powerful backrower Rob Valetini has committed his future to Australian Rugby by signing a four-year extension with Rugby Australia and the ACT Brumbies through to a home Rugby World Cup in 2027.
Long regarded as a player of significant potential the 24-year-old is entering his prime years as Australian Rugby looks forward to a golden decade including a British and Irish Lions tour in 2025.
He celebrates his new contract by being named the 2022 Harvey Norman Super Rugby Pacific Player of the Year, following his sensational form for the Brumbies last season, who fell one-point short of reaching the Grand Final.
The presentation kicks-off the 2022 Rugby Australia Awards, which will be announced throughout February and March.
Influential on both sides of the ball, Valetini’s Rugby journey began in Melbourne before making the move to the nation’s capital after school to sign with the Brumbies, where he developed through the National Rugby Championship with the Canberra Vikings before his Super Rugby debut in 2018.
Valetini became the Brumbies’ youngest player ever to earn 50 Super Rugby Caps in 2022 and has already claimed the club’s prestigious Brett Robinson Players’ Player of the Year award after a breakout season in 2021.
