Rugby League Legend Tavera Nikau is a guest this week Ski Sports“Podcast benches with Jenna Brooks and Jon Wilkin.
Former new zealand international talks about its incredible personal journey from a small mining city to win NRL and playing in superleague.
It opens on some deep personal and tragic events that took place in their lives – including the death of their lady, who was in 2001. took their life.
The opening of the tragedy, which occurred when she passed through some career, Nika talks about how Varrington Volves was going Darryl Van de Velda through that time.
“You know, I was at the top of the world. I would win the Melbourne in 1999. years. He closed the New Zealand Maori team in the World Cup in 2000. years, and then returned here to play for Warrington for several years,” Nikau said.
“And then a very, very challenging time for me and with my wife, Letethia, during that time I was on Warrington.
“It was very, very challential when it happened. But I was very happy, very happy. I had a lot of good support from Warrington team. And especially my coach, Darryl Van de Velde.
“Darryl Was A Great Guy, and I Just Really Wanted to Acknowledge Darrell Because He Passed Away Last Year Up in Brisbane. And I Went To His Funeral And Talked About How He’d Helped Me, How I’d Been Through Those Tough Times. And It Was Really Interesting BeCause When I Came Back After The Funeral, and Took My Wife Home, DID All The Stuff.
“And Darril rang and said” Oh, listen, t, just come back when you’re ready. “I’m right back, because I still have half a year in a contract at the contract in the contract.
“My wife, Letitia, Had Been My Manager All Those Years. And I Said ‘Well, I’ll Go Back And Finish Off The Year And Play It Off My Contract’ BeCause She’d Done All Those Contracts and I Was Going To Retire At The End Of That. So When and Got Back, Darryl Turned Up on My Doorstep.
“He tells me,” Listen, I agreed you to leave and have some counseling. “
“But I said no, a typical male answer.
“I played the rest of the season for the last six months. But I was a bit of a fitness freak. I trained and I didn’t drink a lot.
“But when I returned, I started drinking pretty hard. Mostly with ghosts. And it was a way to deal with what happened. So it was my way to improve. I just got it.
“It was my way, because you go through the entire Rollercoaster emotion: Anger, guilt, frustration. Why didn’t I know? All things?
“And you had to keep a firm face for your kids. It was my way to deal with the team. I would go to Bender, I wouldn’t sleep for two or four months I would miss a few workouts.
“Darill appeared, he grabbed me in the car, even when I was going to know what was going on. They don’t know what’s going on. They don’t know what’s going on. They don’t know what’s going on. They don’t know what’s going on.
“I went there like that, I sat down. I was there for about 45 minutes. And when I left the room, I felt this massive weight just raised off his shoulders.
“It was this huge feeling of relief, because after I talked to the advisor, it’s not about who you are. It wasn’t crucial.”
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