Queensland Reds' Radike Samo eyeing ideal sayonara Radike Samo at Ballymore. THE greatest second coming in international rugby is coming to an end with Radike Samo poised to leave Australian rugby at the conclusion of Queensland's season. The evergreen Samo will join Japanese club Kintetsu Liners for the 2013-14 season, having mounted one of the most extraordinary career revivals ever witnessed over the past two seasons to become the oldest Wallaby (35 years) to play in the Tri Nations. Samo was plucked out of rugby wilderness in Japan by Reds coach Ewen McKenzie in 2010 and within a year he had won back the Wallabies jersey he last wore in 2004 - remarkably the longest gap between Tests by any player in the history of the game. Samo, who played for the Wallabies during their spring tour at the end of last year, will be 37 by the end of the Super Rugby season and The Sunday Telegraph understands he has agreed to terms with Kintetsu, pending approval from the Australian Rugby Union. While he is contracted to the ARU until December 31, the ruling body has a record of allowing players to depart early if they receive unmatchable offers from overseas and are not considered to be frontline internationals. The Japanese Top League runs from August to January, while Australia are involved in the Rugby Championship and the end-of-year tour to Britain and Europe. Sporting his famous afro, Samo won a legion of fans during Queensland's amazing march to the 2011 Super Rugby title and became a national cult hero after scoring a match-winning 60m try against the All Blacks that same year. The backrower-cum-lock even played on the wing for Australia during one game at the 2011 World Cup.