Ciraldo 影響（力） 抱擁する: Watene-Zelezniak
When Dallin Watene-Zelezniak needed 納得させるing to take on the Kiwis captaincy, he got the 保証／確信s he 手配中の，お尋ね者 from Cameron Ciraldo.
Penrith coach Ciraldo and club supremo Phil Gould were の中で those the young fullback sought out when New Zealand coach Michael Maguire shocked him with the 提案.
Maguire gave Watene-Zelezniak a night to sleep on the 申し込む／申し出 and 捜し出す advice from those closest to him.
The 23-year-old 協議するd family and then got on the phone to Ciraldo, whom he 述べるd as an enormous 影響（力） this year, even before 後継するing Anthony Griffin as Panthers 長，率いる coach two months ago.
"Ciro was really stoked for me. He 現実に helped me a lot this year in 存在 able to 発言する／表明する my opinion in 開会／開廷／会期s and be a part of the leadership group in Penrith," Watene-Zelezniak said.
"He believed in me and told me to go ahead with it, that it would be a 大規模な 適切な時期.
"I spoke to Gus (Gould) too and he was 正確に／まさに the same. I have a lot of people around me that are really smart in football and support me a lot."
While he can't remember ever captaining a team, Watene-Zelezniak believes he has the experience and the life 技術s to fill out the 職業 description.
"I'm in the leadership group at Penrith and I'm also a father so you could say I lead a family.
"That's one of the hardest 職業s, looking after the kids and my wife, trying to lead them in the 権利 direction."
His is a family 法外なd in rugby league history, dating 支援する to 広大な／多数の／重要な grandfather Steve Watene who captained the Kiwis in the 1930s - the first Maori to do so.
Watene's 業績／成就s 奮起させるd his 広大な／多数の／重要な grandson from a young age.
"I hear a lot of stories that my aunties and uncles and my nana say to me," he said.
"He was in 議会 too. He led on and off the field so that's probably something that I would love to do 同様に (but) not in 議会."
