Rugby All Blacks, Jonah Lomu died the most famous player of all time, mourning in New Zealand – The Messenger

Jonah Lomu has died at 40, was the most famous rugby player of all time. Mourning in New Zealand where the wing mammoth debuted at age 19 among All Blacks . A beginning in the shade, in fact a lot of criticism against France on tour in 1994 which sensationally beat the Kiwis at home, then the thunderous participation in the World Cup in South Africa in 1995.

His unstoppable rides (only the hosts supported by Mandela managed to beat the All Blacks in the final told in the film Invictus ) immediately became well known even outside the world of rugby that the TV tycoon Australian Rupert Murdock decided to start one of the most colossal investments in the history of sport by signing 10-year federations of New Zealand, South Africa and Australia at a cost of $ 550 million to create the tournament TriNations.

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Lomu and his goals devastating in short, that year helped to accelerate the passage of rugby pro just when nearly 200 players among the strongest of the world of rugby at 15 (Rugby Union) were ready to go to rugby to 13 (Rugby League), which own to be pro ‘had come off the end of the nineteenth century by the movement originated from the game was born in the English town of Rugby would be the death of rugby as we know and love us. Another Australian tycoon, Kerry Packer , by dint of checks, had managed to convince dozens of star (officially amateur, albeit with many distinctions between the various nations) to go to his professional circuit, but the ‘ input Murdock and his mountain of dollars did fail the project for two months held poised the world of rugby.

‘This “rescue”, much of his powerful style of play and record that gradually beat, the greatest merit of Jonah Lomu but soon found himself suffering from a rare form of nephritis that required a troubled frequent dialysis and kidney transplant. After the first World Cup that thanks to him revolutionized the world of rugby, also he played in the 1999 but it had begun its downward.

Moving the race fans who offered to give him a kidney. Even after the transplant, he carried out with an innovative technique to protect the new organ at the bottom of the rib cage, and now far from grace the World Cup in South Africa, Lomu resigned inactivity: certainly did not need the money but played in Cardiff and also in the French third division. Clutching my heart to see play those rhythms slowed the giant physique weighted who in 1995 was instead managed to score four goals in the same match against England in the semifinals.

He was born in a suburb of Auckland by a family of Tongan origin, Methodist minister father, in a not too dissimilar to that crudissimo told in Once were warriors . He started playing rugby league, then passed to the first 15 and then as a third-line winger: 1.95 was tall and weighed 115 kg but could hurtle under 10 and a half seconds in the 100 meters. When it was launched formally was unstoppable, as told also one amazed Alessandro Baricco , since there immune to rugby, in a memorable match from the Parc des Princes in Paris after the All Blacks had annihilated France.

Lomu, in fact, became the first truly global icon of rugby that instead still struggle to get out, in terms of popularity, its often narrow strongholds.

The coach of the All Blacks Laurie Mains the face precisely the wing debut at 19 and 45 days, but the giant was still too immature and the French easily circumvented. One year after the boom at the World Cup, seven destinations including legendary poker England who started the myth. An oil company put even a “size” of 5 thousand dollars for the first player South Sfrica that he could tackle him. Aberration soon withdrawn, but now the risonannza enterprises Lomu had crossed the borders of rugby. For the record, the first to be able to pull it already in the final, before the eyes of Mandela that Lomu had taken sleep, was the middle of the fray Joost van der Westhuizen , another player unlucky because over the years later he fell ill with ALS.

Lomu scored 37 goals for the All Blacks in 63 Test matches from 1994 to 2002. He married three times and it was the third wife Nadene to break the news of death took place in Auckland. He had no children. In the archipelago of Tonga he had been given a volcanic island, those who rise and fall occasionally sea level.

It was covered by the 1995 by advertising contracts fabulous never reserved before a rugby union and the NFL American tried in vain to tear it to rugby.

In 2004, during the tour in Rome of the All Blacks, he was awarded in the main hall of the Cones: hit him, and since that 1995, the kindness and the gentleness of the ways out of the field: a shy boy and approachable, available until the last autograph. In the field, however, gave no quarter.

THE BATTLE AGAINST DISEASE
His long battle against the disease, diagnosis in 1996, is another tremendous contribution that the sample has given over to companies field: therapies, the five hour dialysis, fortitude while waiting for a donor, the talks given all over the world, have given hope to many sufferers.

‘ so that not only New Zealand to be saddened by the death of the giant who had met, always smiling, even to the last World Cup, a month ago in England. Again he had been chosen by the organizers and sponsors of this and that testimonial that initiative because it has not yet taken the field a player known as him in every corner of the planet.

Richie McCaw
And it is likely to be postponed the conference tomorrow in Auckland where Richie McCaw, the captain of the All Blacks, would announce the farewell rugby test match after 148 (record) and two World Cups (consective , another record). E ‘by far and for many years the most famous star of Ovalia and boasts a unique honors, but its popularity is still nothing compared to that achieved by the eternal Jonah Lomu.