At the end of the contract after being recruited as a medical joker last February, Ma’a Nonu will extend for one more season with Toulon, according to information from the Team.
Retirement will wait a bit for Ma’a Nonu. Indeed, returned to Toulon last February as a medical joker, after having passed there twice in the past (from 2015 to 2018 then during the 2020-21 season), The New Zealand center (43 years old) will extend its contract with an additional year with the RCTAccording to information from the Team. In a few months, the one with 103 selections with the All Blacks convinced Pierre Mignoni and his staff to offer him to stay in the south of France, he who is a model of professionalism with the rest of the Var group.
“” It brings us exactly what we were looking for. He transpires rugby and impacts other players in the locker room. Our group needed someone like that: whether it was on the ground, it’s a good thing, but that it is not, it’s a good thing too, “said the RCT manager recently.
Nonu: “I take full advantage and I do my best”
“” I enjoy coaching it. I really like the man and the player Then added Mignoni, about Nonu. For his part, the latter, who played four Top 14 games and put a test (against Castres in play -offs) this season, seemed to be liable to the Rade club.
“Each time that I will be offered the opportunity to play, I will do my best to get the most out of me for the good of RC Toulon. (…) I think it’s just a course. I had this opportunity to be here, to replay. So I take full advantage of it and I do my bestNonu said in June during an interview with the Team. (…) I am here to help. There is nothing special or spiritual. I’m here to do a job. In addition to the New Zealander, Jérémy Sinzelle and Mickaël Ivaldi will also re-stack in Toulon. For the hooker, it will be as a medical joker by Gianmarco Lucchesi.
