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DANNY CIPRIANI
THE PUSH 60 SECOND INTERVIEW
Daniel Jerome Cipriani is a rugby union
footballer who plays fl y-half, centre and
fullback for London Wasps and England.
On Sunday 18 May 2008, Cipriani
suffered a serious injury during Wasps’
semi-fi nal play-off victory over Bath.
Cipriani was tackled by Olly Barkley
and got trapped at the bottom of a
ruck in the 49th minute at Adams Park.
His ankle was severely disfi gured. He
needed oxygen on the pitch before being
taken to hospital, where he underwent
surgery on the fracture-dislocation
of his right ankle. He was ruled out of
England’s summer tour of New Zealand
but made a quicker than expected
recovery to return to premiership rugby
in October and the England side the
following month. So what can a hockey
player learn from him?
WORK AT YOUR GAME
“The way Shaun [Edwards] coaches me
at Wasps is ‘try whatever you want but
do it with discipline and know when giants in my eyes but it was made clear goes hand in hand. So it’s all about
to do it’. You can’t have all this talent if they didn’t play better in the next enjoying yourself at the end of the day.”
but spoil it with bad decision-making. game, they would be dropped. It was a
You also need to remember that your massive eye-opener for me.” LISTEN TO YOUR FRIENDS
bread and butter is on the training “The doctor put the ankle back in place
fi eld. You’ve got to keep working. So DO IT FOR OTHERS on the pitch. That was probably the
after training I go directly to working “I want to play well to heighten the most painful thing, because you could
with Margot [Wells, Wasps sprint coach awareness of rugby and to say thank feel it twisting in the wrong shape. I
and wife of the former Olympic 100m you to my mum and dad. Playing for was sat there and obviously I was in
champion Allan Wells]. I don’t want to Wasps and England is also about tears and it was just the fact that I was
leave anything to chance.” making the supporters happy and thinking, ‘Is this it? Is this me done?’ All
getting all the community involved and those thoughts go through your head...
IT’S ALL ABOUT HOW WELL YOU PLAY enjoying it.” Sometimes I would get worried and say
“Warren Gatland was the coach who to my friends: ‘Do you think I will be the
signed me and I’d be at team analysis ENJOY IT same?’ And they would tell me to shut
meetings listening while he told Simon “For me personally, the focus is enjoying up and get on with it. Because that’s
Shaw he hadn’t performed the previous yourself. If you enjoy yourself, you are how it is. I know it sounds harsh, but it’s
Saturday and told Josh Lewsey he going to watch and learn and then you the best way to react to it.”
wasn’t playing well. These players were are obviously going to get better. It all
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