The Most Famous
RUGBY PLAYERS from Angola
This page contains a list of the greatest Angolan Rugby Players. The pantheon dataset contains 35 Rugby Players, 1 of which were born in Angola. This makes Angola the birth place of the 21st most number of Rugby Players behind Poland, and Czechia.
Top 1
The following people are considered by Pantheon to be the most legendary Angolan Rugby Players of all time. This list of famous Angolan Rugby Players is sorted by HPI (Historical Popularity Index), a metric that aggregates information on a biography’s online popularity.
1. Matai Leuta (b. 1990)
With an HPI of 10.09, Matai Leuta is the most famous Angolan Rugby Player. His biography has been translated into 4 different languages on wikipedia.
Matai Leuta ( mə-TY lee-OO-tə; born July 20, 1990) is an American rugby union player who currently plays for the San Diego Legion in Major League Rugby (MLR). Matai has gained international honors playing for the United States National Rugby Sevens Team. Matai has had an extensive rugby sevens career, playing in 215 HSBC World Sevens Series matches in 44 tournaments, and scoring 31 tries. He played in the Rugby World Cup Sevens in 2018 in San Francisco and was on Team USA for the 2020 Tokyo Olympics. He also played for the Houston Sabercats in 2022 and for the Chicago Hounds in 2023. Leuta has played professional rugby with Premier Rugby Sevens (PR7s) since 2021. He was a member of the 2021 New York Locals but has played the last two seasons with the SoCal Loggerheads.
People
Pantheon has 1 people classified as Angolan rugby players born between 1990 and 1990. Of these 1, 1 (100.00%) of them are still alive today. The most famous living Angolan rugby players include Matai Leuta. As of April 2024, 1 new Angolan rugby players have been added to Pantheon including Matai Leuta.
