{"id":43063,"date":"2024-09-22T11:15:31","date_gmt":"2024-09-22T11:15:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/news\/how-joe-calzaghe-inspired-dragons-win-over-ospreys\/"},"modified":"2024-09-22T11:15:32","modified_gmt":"2024-09-22T11:15:32","slug":"how-joe-calzaghe-inspired-dragons-win-over-ospreys","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/news\/how-joe-calzaghe-inspired-dragons-win-over-ospreys\/","title":{"rendered":"How Joe Calzaghe inspired Dragons&#8217; win over Ospreys"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\"><b class=\"ssrcss-1xjjfut-BoldText e5tfeyi3\">Dai Flanagan has revealed the secret inspiration behind Dragons&#8217; remarkable last-gasp win over Ospreys &#8211; boxing great Joe Calzaghe.<\/b><\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Head coach Flanagan invited the former undefeated world champion to speak with his players during pre-season.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">It was part of a string of motivational moves that also saw World Cup winning All Black Sam Whitelock spend time at Rodney Parade.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">But it was local hero Calzaghe, who lived and trained 12 miles away in Newbridge, who proved decisive in their <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/sport\/rugby-union\/articles\/clyzk90d2epo\" class=\"ssrcss-k8mrr8-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\">injury-time 23-21 win<\/a> on the opening weekend.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;We had Joe come in during the summer and we themed the week around him,&#8221; said Flanagan.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/sport\/rugby-union\/articles\/cgry20jl9kro\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dai Flanagan has revealed the secret inspiration behind Dragons&#8217; remarkable last-gasp win over Ospreys &#8211; boxing great Joe Calzaghe. Head coach Flanagan invited the former undefeated world champion to speak with his players during pre-season. It was part of a string of motivational moves that also saw World Cup winning All Black Sam Whitelock spend [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":43064,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[50],"tags":[15167,3430,152,3221,6955,988],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43063"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=43063"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43063\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":43065,"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43063\/revisions\/43065"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/43064"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=43063"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=43063"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=43063"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}