The former All Blacks fly-half recalls his torturous relationship with the World Cup and reflects on a family-filled retirement

Dan Carter is as bemused as any father of an eight-year-old. “He wishes he was born in Argentina,” he says of his eldest son. “He wants to play for Barcelona and never play for the All Blacks ever. Because he thinks he’s Argentinian.”

Lionel Messi has a lot to answer for. “I wonder how we can commercialise rugby as well as football,” Carter asks, fascinated by the preoccupations of a boy with his hero.

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