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A star quality player who looks to have it all. From Auckland's champion Glenora side, helping the club beat Otahuhu in last year's Fox Memorial grand final (when he was Glenora's youngest player). Started in the second row that day but is also an outstanding loose forward or stand-off. In New Zealand Secondary Schools team out of Auckland's Lynfield College in 1997 (captain) and 1998, then made the Junior Kiwis last year, scoring a try in a narrow second test loss to the Junior Kangaroos. Perenara's 1999 season was crammed with football as he also continued his commerce studies at Auckland University. Apart from playing for Glenora and the Junior Kiwis, he made the New Zealand Maori team for its three-test tour to Papua New Guinea, played for Auckland North in the National Provincial Cup competition and was in the Auckland representative team that beat Country New South Wales.
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