Cronulla centre KL Iro is on a mission to put his small Pacific nation of around 17,000 residents “on the map” at the Rugby League World Cup. Iro is the highest-profile active player to have been raised in the Cook Islands, a self-governing associated state of New Zealand located between French Polynesia and American Samoa. But many others have Cook Islander heritage, including Warriors fullback Charnze Nicoll-Klokstad, Brisbane premiership winn…
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