{"id":10424,"date":"2020-12-16T22:34:47","date_gmt":"2020-12-16T23:34:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/?p=10424"},"modified":"2020-12-17T00:00:30","modified_gmt":"2020-12-17T00:00:30","slug":"nrl-star-speaks-out-after-missing-mystery","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/?p=10424","title":{"rendered":"NRL star speaks out after 'missing' mystery"},"content":{"rendered":"

The mystery behind the 'disappearance' of former Manly<\/a> cult hero Steve Matai has been solved.<\/p>\n

The Daily Telegraph ran a story earlier this week that former team-mates of the 2008 premiership-winning centre were worried for his health<\/a> and well being after he went 'off the grid'.<\/p>\n

But Matai has surfaced to assure Manly fans he is well and good, living on the NSW north coast – thanks to a post placed on his behalf by his wife on the Manly Sea Eagles for Life Supporters Group Facebook page.<\/p>\n

"People know that I choose to live my life the way I want to and I have no concerns about how other people think I should live my life or who I should be in contact with," Matai said.<\/p>\n

"Yes I am a very private person – I don't have social media and it is factual that I am not a fan of the cameras and limelight.<\/p>\n

\"Steve<\/p>\n

"All I wanted to do was play footy. I gave everything I had when I crossed that white chalk – mind and body.<\/p>\n

"My style of play is a testament to that 'run hard, tackle harder, never back down'\u2026 "Please respect my privacy and the way I want to live my life. I am living happily and enjoying life in our community with my beautiful wife and children.<\/p>\n

"Accept this and move on."<\/p>\n

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The mystery behind the 'disappearance' of former Manly cult hero Steve Matai has been solved. The Daily Telegraph ran a story earlier this week that […]<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10424"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=10424"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10424\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10426,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10424\/revisions\/10426"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=10424"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=10424"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=10424"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}