{"id":84418,"date":"2021-06-13T06:27:48","date_gmt":"2021-06-13T06:27:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/?p=84418"},"modified":"2021-06-13T07:03:37","modified_gmt":"2021-06-13T07:03:37","slug":"warriors-star-reduced-to-tears-in-final-game","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/?p=84418","title":{"rendered":"Warriors star reduced to tears in final game"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>New Zealand Warriors winger Ken Maumalo was reduced to tears in his final game after spending seven seasons with the club.<\/p>\n<p>Maumalo will officially join the Wests Tigers next week after being granted an early release to link up with the club on a deal that will see him remain in Concord until the end of the 2023 season.<\/p>\n<p>While the Warriors were on the wrong end of a <a href=\"https:\/\/wwos.nine.com.au\/nrl\/storms-cameron-munster-in-strife-for-another-kicking-incident--new-zealand-warrios\/986b6db2-d8ac-40fa-95ef-d2c96d5eee5d\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" title=\"42-16 thrashing at the hands of the Melbourne Storm\">42-16 thrashing at the hands of the Melbourne Storm<\/a>, Maumalo went out with a bang by producing a hat-trick.<\/p>\n<p>The 26-year-old finishes his career at the Warriors with 44 tries from 106 games since making his NRL debut with the club in 2015.<\/p>\n<p>Cameras after the game captured the moment the 26-year-old was reduced to tears as teammates rushed to his support.<\/p>\n<p><img data-id=\"6a681cdb-e5de-4777-a7de-759e9ecc2dff\" src=\"https:\/\/prod.static9.net.au\/fs\/6a681cdb-e5de-4777-a7de-759e9ecc2dff\" alt=\"Ken Maumalo\" data-width=\"1396\" data-height=\"785\" \/><\/p>\n<p>&quot;He is upset and you can understand that,&quot; Panthers great Greg Alexander said on Fox League.<\/p>\n<p>&quot;That is a pretty emotional moment for Ken.&quot;<\/p>\n<p>&quot;Beautiful scenes as the emotion bubbles over,&quot; Fox League co-commentator Matt Russell added.<\/p>\n<p>&quot;No doubt not an easy time negotiating his departure from the Warriors to join the Wests Tigers.<\/p>\n<p>&quot;He farewells the Warriors with a hat-trick.&quot;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/9_Moley\/status\/1403953443253866497\" rel=\"nofollow\" class=\"embed-social embed-twitter\" data-show-caption=\"false\" data-conversation=\"none\">https:\/\/twitter.com\/9_Moley\/status\/1403953443253866497<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/campo37\/status\/1403954272576761858\" rel=\"nofollow\" class=\"embed-social embed-twitter\" data-show-caption=\"false\" data-conversation=\"none\">https:\/\/twitter.com\/campo37\/status\/1403954272576761858<\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong><em>For a daily dose of the best of the breaking news and exclusive content from Wide World of Sports, subscribe to our newsletter by<\/em><\/strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/login.nine.com.au\/login?client_id=wwos&amp;redirect_uri=https%3A%2F%2Fwwos.nine.com.au&amp;newsletter=true\" title=\"clicking here!\"><strong><em>clicking here!<\/em><\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div class=\"mh-excerpt\"><p>New Zealand Warriors winger Ken Maumalo was reduced to tears in his final game after spending seven seasons with the club. Maumalo will officially join <a class=\"mh-excerpt-more\" href=\"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/?p=84418\" title=\"Warriors star reduced to tears in final game\">[&#8230;]<\/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\/84418"}],"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=84418"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/84418\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":84420,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/84418\/revisions\/84420"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=84418"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=84418"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=84418"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}