Sports Leadership Resource Centre: Books
Synopsis: John Eales is Australia’s finest rugby player. This biogrpahy traces his life from a classic Australian childhood in the suburbs of Brisbane to the glory of captaining the World Cup winning Wallabies – and shows that his road to sporting greatness has had many twists and turns. When Eales was just starting out, he was so severely injured that he thought he would never play rugby again. Then after beginning his international career in the days when players were forced to sell programmes and tickets on tours to make ends meet, he found himself, four years later, having to choose between two million-dollar contracts. In 1997 he suffered the humiliation of calls for his dismissal – yet the following year he was hailed as the greatest rugby skipper in the world. Rugby writer and former Wallaby Peter FitzSimons has brought to “John Eales: The Biography” all the passion and colour of a true insider. Interviews with Eales’s family, friends, colleagues and teammates past and present, as well as Eales himself, reveal a man whose outstanding qualities extend much further than his exceptional skill on the rugby field.
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