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Riki John Flutey (born 10 February 1980) is a New Zealand born rugby union footballer who plays at centre or fly-half for Ricoh Black Rams. Internationally he represents , and was selected for the British and Irish Lions in 2009, having previously represented New Zealand at all age groups. ==Rugby career== Born in Wairarapa, Flutey was a member of the New Zealand team that won the U19 World Cup in 1999. He first played for the New Zealand Māori in 2002. He made his representative debut for Hawkes Bay in 1998, between 1999–2005 he competed for the Wellington Lions in the National Provincial Championship. Flutey made his debut for the Hurricanes against the Blues in the opening round of the 2002 Super 12. After making only 5 appearances in the 2005 Super 12 season, Flutey moved to England to play for London Irish. After his arrival at the Exiles the team achieved a play-off place in the 2005–06 Guinness Premiership, losing to the Leicester Tigers. That season, Flutey also started in the final of the European Challenge Cup, losing to Gloucester Rugby. At the end of the 2006–07 season, Flutey left London Irish to join London Wasps. He was rewarded for an excellent 2007/2008 début season with Wasps, winning the League, and he was named Player of the Year at the PRA awards. Flutey decided to join Top 14 club Brive, from the 2009–10 season, joining other English internationals such as Andy Goode, Steve Thompson and Jamie Noon. He played just 5 games for the club before his season was ended by a shoulder injury. Flutey rejoined London Wasps for the 2010/2011 season after just one season at Brive. He was contracted for 2 years but, by mutual consent, the contract was cancelled as his time in France was blighted by a shoulder injury.〔http://www.planetrugby.com/story/0,25883,16024_6107311,00.html〕 The club were not pleased that he choose to play for in the 2010 Six Nations Championship having just recovered from injury and not having featured for the club for months. He re-injured the same shoulder playing for England in the tournament and was ruled out of playing again during the 2009/2010 season. At the end of the 2012 season Flutey quit Wasps to join Ricoh Black Rams〔http://www.allblacks.com/news/18998/Flutey-leaves-Wasps-as-club-prepares-for-new-owners〕 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Riki Flutey」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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