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Behind the Success of Payne Haas: Family, Samoa & Money Lessons | AJ EP18
Published 30 Oct 2026 · Transcript excerpt
[…] I wanted to ask you a question. It's probably timely at the moment with the World Cup being on and I was quite fortunate to play for both of my countries. Obviously, country of birth being Australia and my country of heritage being Lebanon and very proud of both and they're both very different and they both mean different things to me and for yourself as well. Obviously, you've played for Australia and then you made the choice now to pledge your allegiance to Samoa. How tough was that decision and talk us through the reasoning of why you made that choice and what, or the importance of family and heritage when it comes to representing Samoa. […]
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