Ben Chilwell draws on All Blacks mindset after ‘difficult summer’

10-Nov-2021 22:30:16 | Guardian

England and Chelsea left-back had a challenging Euros but lessons from his New Zealand heritage helped him through

Ben Chilwell smiles. There is almost an eye-roll. Yes, he has heard the legend of the All Blacks rugby team from his father, Wayne, a proud New Zealander; how their codes have made them so much more than the sum of their parts.

“I’ve definitely been made aware of it by my dad,” the Chelsea and England left-back says. “He’d like to tell me all the time that the All Blacks are the best team ever to play sport. The way they go about things is very proper and the way that he tried to bring me up was on a lot of their ethics and morals.”