Japan skipper Michael Leitch says their fairytale run to last year's Rugby World Cup quarter-finals has lessons far beyond the game that the whole nation would do well to embrace.
TOKYO - Japan skipper Michael Leitch says their fairytale run to last year’s Rugby World Cup quarter-finals has lessons far beyond the game that the whole nation would do well to embrace.
Central to their success, Leitch says, was the ‘One Team’ ethos, bringing together players born in seven different countries to present an entirely new face of Japanese sport. “We addressed it, said we weren’t going to change anything, it is going to be raining but we are going to be training,” Leitch recalled.
“The pressure was massive, we expected it and I thought we dealt with it very well,” reflected Leitch.
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