E ngana ana a Waka Nathan ki te whana whakamua i te paoro i te tākaro a te tīma Māori o Aotearoa ki Wīwī i te papa tākaro o McLean Park, i Ahuriri i te tau 1961. He rongonui a Nathan mō tōna kaha me tōna tere, ka tapā ai ia ki te ingoa ‘black panther’. I ana tākaro 14 katoa mō te kapa Ōpango i tāwāhi kāore rawa rātou i hinga. E kīia ana hoki, nā Nathan i ara ake anō ai te tīma Māori o Aotearoa i te tekau tau 1970 i te wā ko ia te kaiwhakahaere me te kaitohutohu o te tīma. Nāna i kōkiri te āhua tākaro whutupaoro marere a te Māori i rongonui ai te tīma.
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