The winger made steady progress through the ranks there, culminating in a handful of Premiership Cup appearances last season, before the opportunity arose to return to the city of his birth.<\/p>\n
A two-year deal with Edinburgh has given him the platform to showcase his talents and the 20-year-old is relishing the opportunity to kick on from where his dad left off.<\/p>\n
\u201cI\u2019m looking forward to it,\u201d he said. \u201cKnowing that my dad used to play here, it\u2019s like a homecoming. It\u2019s not me chasing his shadow but dad set an example. He set a good baseline so now I\u2019ve got to chase after that and try to live up to the name.<\/p>\n
\u201cDad\u2019s got a bit of a history about him. I know that because I\u2019ve seen him play. But also there\u2019s a history that he\u2019s left here in Scotland, in Fiji, in England, and also in the army.<\/p>\n
\u201cHe\u2018s not with any rugby team now but he does a lot of coaching with me, like one-to-one coaching, which is good. Having the experience and as a father role model, it\u2019s perfect. There\u2019s no-one better to learn from than your dad.<\/p>\n
\u201cI spoke to him about coming here. He told me, \u2018mate, you\u2019re in good hands\u2019. He told me about his experience at Edinburgh and he said it was a good bunch of players, a good bunch of coaches and that I would enjoy my time here.<\/p>\n
\u201cThere\u2019s a lot of people who are a bit surprised that the surname Satala is back in Edinburgh. They keep thinking it\u2019s him, but, no, it\u2019s his son.\u201d<\/p>\n
Having left the capital as a baby, Satala has spent the last few months trying to get to know the city as much as the club.<\/p>\n
\u201cI was six months old when I left Edinburgh to go to Fiji and then I came back when I was 16 and joined Leicester,\u201d he adds. \u201cAnd now I\u2019m back again in Edinburgh, back in the hometown.<\/p>\n
\u201cI haven\u2019t been around the city that much because I\u2019ve been busy with pre-season at the moment, but the good thing about Edinburgh is there\u2019s always coffee shops so you can go in and about.<\/p>\n
\u201cI\u2019m a bit disappointed that I didn\u2019t go to the Fringe fest, a lot of the boys are bigging it up so I missed an opportunity. I\u2019ll have to wait until next year now.\u201d<\/p>\n
Edinburgh aren\u2019t short of options on the wing with Duhan van der Merwe, Darcy Graham, Wes Goosen and Harry Paterson all set to be available to Sean Everitt at various points of the season. Satala, though, hopes he can offer something different.<\/p>\n
\u201cPre-season at the moment is going quite well, I\u2019m getting to understand how Edinburgh plays their game and starting to understand what Sean wants out of the wingers,\u201d he reveals.<\/p>\n
\u201cI\u2019m glad to have Duhan and Darcy and those boys to pick their brains and learn a few tricks from up their sleeves. It\u2019s good to have these guys around, they push you and there\u2019s a lot of things you can learn from them.<\/p>\n
\u201cI\u2019d say my attributes are that I\u2019m explosive and agile, so a bit of a mixture. It\u2019s weird to have both, but I\u2019m one of those players who\u2019s got the speed and the explosiveness in the footwork.\u201d<\/p>\n
Being Scottish-qualified is another feather in his cap but the former England under-20 cap isn\u2019t focusing too much on his international aspirations.<\/p>\n
\u201cI was born in Edinburgh so it was in the back of my mind, knowing that I\u2019m Scottish qualified. It\u2019s good to have it in the back pocket as well. I\u2019m also qualified for England and Fiji but now that I\u2019m here in Scotland I need to try to get my face known and show what I can do in the URC. Whichever comes first, I\u2019m open-minded. We\u2019ll see where the wind blows.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The winger made steady progress through the ranks there, culminating in a handful of Premiership Cup appearances last…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":378420,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8816],"tags":[748,85185,1102,10753,4884,131961,712,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-378419","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-edinburgh","8":"tag-britain","9":"tag-divi","10":"tag-edinburgh","11":"tag-edinburgh-rugby","12":"tag-great-britain","13":"tag-malelili-satala","14":"tag-scotland","15":"tag-uk","16":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/115102423679741531","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/378419","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=378419"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/378419\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/378420"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=378419"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=378419"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=378419"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}