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Steve Hansen The Legacy

The making of a New Zealand coaching great

Gregor Paul Kevin Keys

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English
Bolinda/HarperCollins Audio
01 October 2021
Between the years 2012 and 2019, Sir Steve Hansen oversaw an era of such remarkable success that it would be almost impossible to repeat. His 15-year career in the All Blacks coaching team is the heaviest footprint in rugby history. Of the 210 tests he was involved with, his team lost just 25 times. Of the 107 tests he served as head coach, Sir Steve accumulated a record 4 World Rugby Coach of the Year awards and orchestrated 93 victories - a winning percentage of 87 percent, the highest of any All Blacks coach.

Steve Hansen: The Legacy delves into the highs and the lows that earned the New Zealand rugby knight a place in the pantheon of world rugby coaching greats. Revealing and insightful, the audiobook uncovers how Hansen dealt with the immeasurable pressure of leading the world's most famous rugby team, the tension created by being re-appointed specifically to win the Rugby World Cup, how he dealt with high-profile athletes and an exodus of New Zealand's all-time greats, the endless tug-of-war between commercialism and high performance, the increasing influence of referees on the game, the power battle between the northern and southern hemispheres, the Achilles heel that contributed to the All Blacks' 2019 Rugby World Cup loss and how, during his career, he learnt to understand his weaknesses and used them to his advantage.

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Imprint:   Bolinda/HarperCollins Audio
Country of Publication:   Australia
Edition:   Unabridged edition
Dimensions:   Height: 122mm,  Width: 132mm,  Spine: 14mm
Weight:   68g
ISBN:   9781460790083
ISBN 10:   1460790081
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Audience:   General/trade ,  ELT Advanced
Format:   Audio
Publisher's Status:   Active

Gregor Paul is The New Zealand Herald's most respected rugby columnist and is a regular contributor to publications around the world. He has won multiple journalism awards for news, features and opinion writing, and is a sought after guest on radio and TV. Gregor has been reporting on Steve Hansen's career since the rugby great was unexpectedly thrust into his Wales coaching role in 2002. He has interviewed Steve on more than a hundred occasions over 16 seasons, including specifically for the purposes of this book. Gregor's journey to cover the All Blacks has taken him all over the world - he reported live from every Bledisloe Cup test during Steve's head coaching tenure, as well as from Samoa, Japan, USA, South Africa, the UK, Ireland, France and Italy. Gregor was born and raised in Scotland, and has lived in Auckland with his wife and three children since 2003. Kevin Keys is an Auckland-based performer. He has a background in music and acting with a BA in theatre and a BMus in performance trombone from Victoria University. He writes and presents scripts for orchestral education concerts for various New Zealand ensembles and for Radio New Zealand Concert. He has written two plays - Fact and Fable, a one-man story of ark-based obsession, co-written with Jamie Standen; and Desperate Antics, an ensemble work specifically designed for a large youth theatre cast.

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