November 3, 2009 – The New Zealand Herald – Auckland, NZ
Fifty-six years of failure has the tendency to affect self-belief and perhaps this is what Warren Gatland had in mind when employing a motivational expert to work with his internationals. Wales have not beaten the All Blacks since 1953 and it is clearly part of Andy McCann’s brief to convince this Dragonhood they can prevail on Sunday where so many predecessors have fallen short.
If he does have a few confidence issues he at least has somewhere to turn. McCann is a former karate international who quit as a PE teacher in 2004 after suffering a stroke, aged just 37. He received a UK Award for Courage as he fought back and retrained as a clinical hypnotherapist and life coach.
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