![]() While the people cheer and sing in the street after every victory on the world series, the team also hold the power to lift the spirits of its people when they are in need. Rugby sevens is the national sport of Fiji, and the Pacific nation’s mood is intrinsically linked to the performance of their team overseas. They told me that this was my life now, and will put food on the table for us. “I was crying while holding the boots because I knew the situation that we were in. “They saved all their money and called me one day to say that had bought some boots for me. Because I'm small, growing up I was always the last one picked,” he continued to Olympic Channel. “I was kicked out from school, so my mum and dad told me to do something else, and I looked into rugby. Touring the world, living in hotels and being paid to play rugby in packed stadiums in Las Vegas, Cape Town, and Hong Kong couldn’t have been further from the half-back’s reality. His father scraped by as a farmer, while his mother worked as a housemaid for FJ$50 (US$22) a week. Tuwai and his family lived in a one-room shack, with no running water or electricity. But the next day I would come back again because it was so much fun." - Jerry Tuwai to Olympic Channel. Sometimes I got injured and two or three nails would come off because of the gravel. “Instead of a ball we would use water bottles with gravel inside, and we played barefoot.
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