Career
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Born in Blacktown, New South Wales, Fifita is of Indigenous Australian and Tongan descent and played his junior rugby league for Street Patricks Blacktown and Doonside Roos, before being signed by the Wests Tigers. Fifita is the twin brother of fellow Cronulla-Sutherland Sharks player Andrew Fifita. He is not related to John Fifita, a former Street George Dragons player.
Early career
In 2011, he moved on to the Tigers" New South Wales Cup teams, Balmain Ryde-Eastwood Tigers and Western Suburbs Magpies.
At the end of 2012, he joined the Lézignan Sangliers in the Elite One Championship. In June 2013, after finishing his season with Lézignan, he attracted the interest of NRL clubs, Cronulla-Sutherland Sharks and Melbourne Storm.
After playing 6 games for the Sharks in the NSW Cup, he re-signed with them for 2014. 2014
In Round 2 of the 2014 NRL season, Fifita made his NRL debut for the Sharks against the Canterbury-Bankstown Bulldogs.
On 17 July 2014, he re-signed with the Sharks on a 2-year contract.
2015
On 13 February 2015, Fifita played for the Indigenous All Stars against the NRL All Stars in the 2015 All Stars match. In October, Fifita was selected in Tonga"s 48-man train-on squad for the Asia-Pacific Qualifier for the 2017 Rugby League World Cup. He would go on to make the final 18-man squad where he would be named the 18th man and would fill in for any late injuries, suspensions or tactical changes.
He would go on to play in that match, in what was only his second appearance for Tonga, after filling in for Leilani Latu.