NRL Confidential: David Nofoaluma’s story from being homeless and feeling worthless to NRL star.
TIGERS star David Nofoaluma reveals the story of when he was just 17 he’d hit rock bottom.
With nowhere to go and nothing more than the clothes on his back, the flyer went from feeling worthless to an NRL star within two years.
Check out the social side of the game in NRL Confidential.
From being homeless to NRL star
Wests Tigers winger David Nofoaluma has opened up about his life and how he went from rock bottom to making his NRL debut within 24 months.
Prior to making his NRL debut, Nofoaluma was homeless.
Having never met his father and grown up with his grandparents’, the winger had split with his girlfriend who he was living with and got on a bus with nothing more than some change in his pocket and the clothes on his back.
That’s when he remembered an offer from a family friend.
“I was on a bus and I remember (family friends) saying ‘whenever you have it tough, we’re here anytime you need us’ and I was on the bus and the bus happened to go past their place,” Nofoalum told the Locker Room podcast.
“When the trains aren’t working you have to take a bus. I got on the bus and it went past their place and I still remember the day.
“I got off the bus and knocked on the door and (my family friends) were happy to see me.
“From then I lived with them. I had nothing on me. I was probably at rock-bottom. I was at the bottom and there was nothing going on in my mind. (I thought) I’m worth nothing.
“I was probably 17 years old.
“I left school earlier. I’d just finished High School.”
Fast forward two years and Nofoaluma made his debut.
The flyer debuted back in 2013 after Matt Utai failed a fitness test. He was in his last year of NYC and finished the year in the top grade.
Now he has over 50 NRL games to his name but he’s stayed humble.
“It’s always something I keep in mind,” he said of his journey. “That’s why I’m pretty rapped to be where I am.”
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TIGERS star David Nofoaluma reveals the story of when he was just 17 he’d hit rock bottom.
With nowhere to go and nothing more than the clothes on his back, the flyer went from feeling worthless to an NRL star within two years.
Check out the social side of the game in NRL Confidential.
From being homeless to NRL star
Wests Tigers winger David Nofoaluma has opened up about his life and how he went from rock bottom to making his NRL debut within 24 months.
Prior to making his NRL debut, Nofoaluma was homeless.
Having never met his father and grown up with his grandparents’, the winger had split with his girlfriend who he was living with and got on a bus with nothing more than some change in his pocket and the clothes on his back.
That’s when he remembered an offer from a family friend.
“I was on a bus and I remember (family friends) saying ‘whenever you have it tough, we’re here anytime you need us’ and I was on the bus and the bus happened to go past their place,” Nofoalum told the Locker Room podcast.
“When the trains aren’t working you have to take a bus. I got on the bus and it went past their place and I still remember the day.
“I got off the bus and knocked on the door and (my family friends) were happy to see me.
“From then I lived with them. I had nothing on me. I was probably at rock-bottom. I was at the bottom and there was nothing going on in my mind. (I thought) I’m worth nothing.
“I was probably 17 years old.
“I left school earlier. I’d just finished High School.”
Fast forward two years and Nofoaluma made his debut.
The flyer debuted back in 2013 after Matt Utai failed a fitness test. He was in his last year of NYC and finished the year in the top grade.
Now he has over 50 NRL games to his name but he’s stayed humble.
“It’s always something I keep in mind,” he said of his journey. “That’s why I’m pretty rapped to be where I am.”
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