AUCKLAND – The giant surrendered. Jonah Lomu, the greatest rugby player of all time, has long suffered from a rare and severe form of nephrotic syndrome, died at age 40 due to a sudden worsening of health conditions. And ‘success in the Italian night in his apartment in New Zealand Auckland, a few hours after his wife Nadene confirmed the tragic news. Jonah, who in 2004 had undergone a kidney transplant (rejected in 2011), leaving two sons Brayley, 6 years old, and Dhyreille, 5. “I would like to see them grow until they will make 21 years,” he confessed only a few days ago. A meter and 96 centimeters in height to 118 pounds of weight, combined with a speed sprinter. The number 11, the shirt of the All Blacks (in which he scored 37 goals in 73 games). A devastating power. Relentless and implaccabile. No human being could have stopped him on the field. The legend of Siona These ‘Jonah’ Lomu had begun during the Rugby World Cup 1995 in South Africa, when that guy twenties of Tongan origin had had started to score goals that we wanted an abacus (the record in the World Cup – 15 – is was only equaled last month by Brian Habana): its marking with England – surpassing Underwood, Carling and then literally trampling the extreme Catt – has made the history of rugby. Last week he confided:” Think about what I could do, if I had always been good. ” John Meyhew, the family doctor, has confirmed that the death of Lomu took place from cardiac arrest. Jonah was surrounded by his family. Nadene, his wife, asked a little ‘privacy to allow her and the children to deal with these “traumatic moments”. New Zealand Prime Minister John Key has tweeted: “The whole country is close to Nadene and his sons.” But the most important message is to come from Richie McCaw, another legend oval, the man who only two weeks ago has risen to heaven the third world cup won by the All Blacks: “I still can not believe this sad news. Jonah was an incredible rugby player and an extraordinary person. My thoughts are all for her family. Rest in peace, man. “
Strong and sweet, with that strange melancholy look. “My father passed away I was very young. I do not know when it might happen to me. I just hope that the two of them grow strong, healthy. I will never stop thanking Nadene, which really is as if you look after three children.” He was returning from a trip to Dubai with the whole family, his condition was apparently good. But in the last hour a drastic drop in blood protein would lead to a new kidney failure. Condolences are coming from all over the world or is sporty.
A year earlier, coming from the county of Manuaku, he had been the youngest player with New Zealand. The consecration came during the World Cup of 1999 English: still a couple of masterpieces among the goals, actions still cliccatissime on the web, like that trimmed the hosts and another, with four French needlessly clinging to its Gambone.
Auckland Blues, Chiefs and Hurricanes are the club with which he played at home, a witness and protagonist of the passage of pro rugby since 1995. In 2005 he spent a season in Europe, with the Welsh the Cardiff Blues. Then a short passage in Marseille, France, as an amateur. The first symptoms of the disease had already warned them twenty years ago, but it was only some years later that there was clarity of the nephrotic syndrome who was accompanied by fatigue, stomach pain, bloating, fluid retention, infections, clots of blood. It was the beginning of the first dialysis, then the transplant, the countless admissions.
“You always have to try to stay positive, smiling,” he said. “Because this disease tries to destroy you little by little. Every patient who undergoes dialysis is different, but we all know they have no other choice. The alternative is the same: you have to stay up with morals. I want to teach my children that nothing is easy in this life and you have to work hard. Always. You do not have to give up, because I do not give up. Never. “
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