What Are You Doing Off The Field?
"He was the only Springbok to have sat down with Mandela one-on-one, and he was particularly anxious that his team project an image that would please Mandela. But he was also thinking, as he did always with relentless detail, what the team did off the field might improve their performance on it. And as he heard himself and his teammates singing, his rugby brain clicked into action. He understood that victory in a top-class rugby game was 50 percent psychology, and saw a sporting value in the song, beyond the politics. 'I made up my mind right there and then that this was an unexpected plus that Morne had given us; that it could give us something special going into the game, if we respected it and felt the energy of it,' Pineaar said, before adding, with a smile and a shake of the head, 'but...it's amazing to think about the Afrikaan boys singing that anthem!"
INVICTUS: Nelson Mandela And The Game That Made A Nation
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