'My Journey' on The Bench

De Jongh Borchardt, the author of Victor Matfield’s book, ‘Victor: My Journey’, spent Saturday morning at the 2Oceansviberadio studios chatting to Crispin Inglis and Howie Kahn on The Bench; their weekly online-based sports and lifestyle show.

Borchardt, a former rugby365.com staff writer, gave us a unique behind-the-scenes view of his relationship with the record-breaking Springbok lock as he spent the past 16 months putting this book together.

The interview has been broken up into five segments and can be downloaded below:

Part One:
How the book originally came about. CLICK HERE to download.

Part Two:
De Jongh on current rugby affairs. CLICK HERE to download.

Part Three:
Victor Matfield and Fourie du Preez’s relationship – how they first became mates – and ‘provincialism’ within the Bok squad. CLICK HERE to download.

Part Four:
How Matfield and some of his senior Bok teammates took off on a sneaky little roadtrip during the recent Rugby World Cup. CLICK HERE to download.

Part Five:
Where to from here for Victor Matfield… CLICK HERE to download.

* You can still WIN a copy of this book in conjunction with Zebra Press and rugby365.com. Click HERE to enter.

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