Romania will donate the profits from ticket sales for Saturday's rugby match against Tonga to a Tonga-born player who is suffering from kidney failure, officials said.

Flanker Sione Vaiomounga, who played for Romanian champions CSM Baia Mare, was diagnosed with kidney failure last year and has not been able to play since.

Tongan flanker Sione Vaiomounga (right). Credit:Getty Images

The Romanian Rugby Federation (FRR) said the money from the Bucharest game, the team's final warm-up before the World Cup in England and Wales, would allow Vaiomounga to see his family for the first time in more than a year.