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Brutal toll of Fifita's NRL career revealed - CtrlF.XYZ

Brutal toll of Fifita's NRL career revealed

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Andrew Fifita volition necessitate 7 surgeries successful status aft his assemblage was near battered by a brutal rugby league career.

Fifita's status was confirmed earlier this week and came aft helium had initially voiced his intentions of continuing his vocation elsewhere aft Cronulla decided against offering him a caller deal.

The 33-year-old, who scored the winning effort for the Sharks successful the 2016 expansive final, volition necessitate procedures connected his knee, ankle, nose, shoulder, elbow, wrists and a finger.

He besides said helium planned to get his teeth fixed aft claiming helium had 2 knocked retired per play aft large hits to the rima area.

Fifita already has a program locked successful for his post-career days, readying to enactment his counselling qualification to bully usage portion moving with youths.

"I emotion talking to teenagers and each the youth," helium told 9News Sydney.

"If I tin springiness my input to them and conscionable assistance them to get astir obstacles and if there's immoderate occupation successful their lives, focusing connected the positives and not the negatives."

Fifita retires having played 251 NRL games aft making his debut with the Wests Tigers successful 2010.

He was named the Dally M Prop Of The Year successful 2013 and 2018 and admits helium changed the mode the presumption is played.

"I wasn't your mean prop," helium said.

"I loved to beryllium the halfback, I loved to effort small kicks, I liked moving crossed the tract and trying to organise something. I'm conscionable a antithetic benignant of prop.

"I conjecture the crippled is changing successful the close mode and I consciousness similar I tin honestly accidental I had a small interaction successful the mode the front-rowers are playing now."

Along with his 10 State of Origin appearances for New South Wales, Fifita's crowning infinitesimal is undoubtedly the 2016 premiership.

"My sanction is cemented successful the Cronulla history," helium recalled.

"I'll ever beryllium remembered and I won't beryllium that aged fella trying to archer the kids that daddy did this, daddy did that, they tin virtually look it up and spot it."

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