Mal Meninga

Mal Meninga

Australian rugby league footballer (born 1960)

66 years oldCancerAustralia

Biography

Malcolm Norman Meninga (; born 8 July 1960) is an Australian professional rugby league coach and a former professional rugby league footballer.

He is currently the inaugural head coach of the Perth Bears franchise in the National Rugby League (NRL). Previously, Meninga coached the Australian national team, the Queensland Maroons, the Papua New Guinea national rugby league team and the Canberra Raiders.

After a lengthy career in both Australia and England, mainly as a goal-kicking centre, Meninga is widely regarded as one of the finest players in the game's history. Having broken numerous rugby league records, he retired with the most appearances in the history of the Australian national team, and became the top-point scorer ever in State of Origin football.

Meninga has since been honoured as a Member of the Order of Australia, inducted into the Australian Rugby League Hall of Fame, and named in both Queensland's and Australia's teams of the twentieth century.

Meninga is the only player in history to be selected for four Kangaroo Tours - 1982, 1986, 1990 and 1994 - appearing in every test match against Great Britain and France on all four tours. He is also the only player to captain two Kangaroo Tours (1990 and 1994). Additionally, Meninga is one of five players (along with Wally Lewis, Peter Sterling, Brett Kenny and Gene Miles) who were members of the undefeated 1982 and 1986 tours, known as 'the Invincibles' and 'the Unbeatables' respectively.

In 2018, Meninga was inducted as the 13th Immortal of rugby league.

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Career highlights

Teams

  • St Helens RLFC
  • Canberra Raiders
  • Australia national rugby league team
  • Souths Logan Magpies

Employers / organisations

  • Queensland Police Service

Awards & honours (2)

  • Australian Sports Medal
  • Member of the Order of Australia

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Mal Meninga is 66 years old (born July 8, 1960).
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Mal Meninga was born on July 8, 1960.
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Mal Meninga was born in Bundaberg.
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Mal Meninga's zodiac sign is Cancer.
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Mal Meninga is a citizen of Australia.
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