Darren Rameka is a New Zealand

New Zealand

New Zealand is an island country in the south-western Pacific Ocean comprising two main landmasses and numerous smaller islands. The country is situated some east of Australia across the Tasman Sea, and roughly south of the Pacific island nations of New Caledonia, Fiji, and Tonga...

 former rugby league

Rugby league

Rugby league football, usually called rugby league, is a full contact sport played by two teams of thirteen players on a rectangular grass field. One of the two codes of rugby football, it originated in England in 1895 by a split from Rugby Football Union over paying players...

 player who played professionally in Australia.

Playing career

Rameka played for the New Zealand Māori

New Zealand Maori rugby league team

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 in the 1994 Pacific Cup

1994 Pacific Cup

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. He again played for the Māori in a 1999 match against the Great Britain Lions

Great Britain national rugby league team

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In 1995 Rameka made his professional debut, playing for the Sydney City Roosters. He played two seasons for the Roosters before moving to the St. George Dragons

St. George Dragons

The St George Dragons was an Australian Rugby league football club in St George, Sydney, New South Wales that played in Australia's top-level Rugby league competition from New South Wales Rugby Football League in 1921 until 1998; in 1999 they formed a joint venture with the Illawarra Steelers,...

 in 1997.

During the Super League war

Super League war

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 he represented the Australian Rugby League

Australian Rugby League

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's Rest of the World side in 1997. He then spent the 1998 season with the Western Suburbs Magpies

Western Suburbs Magpies

The Western Suburbs Magpies are an Australian rugby league football club based in the western suburbs of Sydney, New South Wales. Formed in 1908, Wests, as they are commonly referred to, were one of the nine foundation clubs of the first New South Wales Rugby League competition in Australia...

. He remained with Wests in 1999 but did not play a first grade match.