NRL star makes shock code switch to US rugby

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The NRL vocation of erstwhile Maroons and Kangaroos centre Will Chambers appears to beryllium over.

Instead, the agleam lights of Los Angeles person travel calling.

After a one-season stint with Cronulla, the 33-year-old wasn't offered a caller woody successful the Shire and volition commercialized Shark Park for the Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum, to play for the LA Giltinis successful the Major League Rugby contention for the adjacent 2 years.

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"About 2 weeks agone (Giltinis coach) Stephen Hoiles rang maine and asked if I was inactive interested," Chambers told Wide World of Sports and the Sydney Morning Herald.

"To beryllium honest, I was acceptable to decorativeness up with footy but the accidental to spell and unrecorded successful different state and play rugby implicit there, for an organisation that won the contention past year, it was astir apt excessively bully to accidental nary to."

The Giltinis are the reigning MLR champions, clinching this season's rubric connected the backmost of prima performances from erstwhile Wallabies Matt Giteau and Adam Ashley-Cooper.

While Ashley-Cooper has retired and moved into a coaching relation with LA, Giteau could spell astir again to signifier a formidable operation with Chambers, who has played extracurricular centre successful his erstwhile stints successful rugby.

The Giltinis would beryllium a beardown accidental of going backmost to backmost with Chambers, Giteau and erstwhile Wallaby Billy Meakes successful their backline, but they aren't the lone planetary stars successful the US competition.

"I conscionable saw Ma'a Nonu signed for San Diego, truthful there's intelligibly inactive prime centres implicit there," Chambers said.

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"He's a spot older but he's a satellite people player. On his day, helium was the astir destructive centre successful satellite rugby. We're going to person our hands afloat there."

It's Chambers' 3rd stint successful rugby, aft having antecedently played for the Queensland Reds and Irish giants Munster from 2010 to 2012, and Japanese heavyweights Suntory (2019-2021).

"I've ever enjoyed rugby and ever thought I would spell backmost to it.

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"It's not a locomotion successful the park. You person to bid hard and each of that. I've started to hole well, to marque definite I'm successful the champion signifier possible."

Chambers played 226 NRL games for the Melbourne Storm and Cronulla, successful a vocation which spanned 15 seasons.

He besides represented the Maroons successful 13 State of Origin games, and played 7 Tests for the Kangaroos.