Career
He played in the position of Number eight, but could also play Flanker during his playing career. Male earned his first cap for Fiji on 18 September 1998 against Australia in Sydney, where he started in the Number eight jersey. He has played for Fiji before this match, but was a non-test match against New Zealand club side Northland.
He last played for his country on 8 July 2001 against neighbouring pacific island team Samoa.
He played 22 times for Fiji (only 15 test matches), scoring only 5 points with his try against Samoa in 2001. Inoke Male was named the Head Coach of the national side on 13 January 2013 following a disappointing fourth place in Pool Doctorate in the 2011 Ruby World Cup with Sam Domoni in charge.
Male also coached Fiji against Tier 1 nation Scotland during the 2012 mid-year rugby union tests, but Scotland were the victors 37–25 in Lautoka. Inoke and his team had a disappointing end-of-year tour in 2012, losing 54–12 to England in London and losing 53–0 to Ireland XV in Munster.
Fiji"s only loss was to Canada 20–18.
Fiji lost to a star-studded Barbarians side 43–19 and to a weakened Italian side 37–31. This match however, saw Fiji break the record for the number of yellow cards given out to one team in a single test match at 5. In January 2014 the International Rugby Board, (Institutional Review Board), suspended funding to the Fiji Rugby Union after a failure to address concerns over administration and governance with immediate effect.
