The talismanic hover-half missed the All Blacks’ World Cup triumph four years ago and is set to play a key role in Saturday’s final at TwickenhamThe rhetoric was classic All Blacks stuff,approximately obsessively focusing on process and taking each moment as it comes. But Dan Carter’s ecstatic reaction at the end of New Zealand’s victory over South Africa at the prospect of his first World Cup final told a different narrative.
Having missed out in 2003 and 2007, before also lost the cathartic 2011 victory with injury, and the talismanic hover-half spoke of his excitement and “enormous relief” at the chance to make up for it at Twickenham on Saturday. In the process,he aims to help the All Blacks become the first team to win back-to-back World Cups.
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Source: theguardian.com