{"id":457684,"date":"2026-06-02T20:59:09","date_gmt":"2026-06-02T20:59:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/457684\/"},"modified":"2026-06-02T20:59:09","modified_gmt":"2026-06-02T20:59:09","slug":"all-black-legend-maa-nonu-may-have-played-his-last-game-of-rugby","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/457684\/","title":{"rendered":"All Black legend Ma’a Nonu may have played his last game of rugby"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"Toulon's<\/p>\n

\nToulon’s New Zealand centre Ma’a Nonu.
\nPhoto: CHRISTOPHE SIMON \/ AFP\n<\/p>\n

Former All Black Ma’a Nonu may have played his last game of rugby.<\/p>\n

The French club RC Toulon has confirmed that Nonu will leave them after rejoining the Top 14 outfit as injury cover.<\/p>\n

Nonu had two stints with Toulon following his retirement from Test rugby in 2015 and this season played a dozen games mostly off the bench.<\/p>\n

“You will leave @RCTofficiel at the end of the season but you will always remain in the Red & Black Family,” the club said in a statement.<\/p>\n

Nonu was treated to a haka following his last game against European champions Bordeaux.<\/p>\n

Nonu, 44, broke records as the oldest player<\/a> in France’s Top 14 competition and the oldest player to score a try in the competition.<\/p>\n

Nonu played 103 tests for the All Blacks between 2003 and 2015 and won the World Cup in 2011 and 2015.<\/p>\n

He played 126 games for the Hurricanes and also played in Japan, the United States and France.<\/p>\n

He played four games for East Coast in provincial rugby in 2021.<\/p>\n

Sign up for Ng\u0101 Pitopito K\u014drero<\/a>, a daily newsletter curated by our editors and delivered straight to your inbox every weekday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Toulon’s New Zealand centre Ma’a Nonu. Photo: CHRISTOPHE SIMON \/ AFP Former All Black Ma’a Nonu may have…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":457685,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[48,47,111,43,139,69,49,46,44,45,213],"class_list":["post-457684","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sports","tag-audio","tag-current-affairs","tag-new-zealand","tag-news","tag-newzealand","tag-nz","tag-podcasts","tag-public-radio","tag-radio-new-zealand","tag-rnz","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/457684","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=457684"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/457684\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/457685"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=457684"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=457684"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=457684"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}