Dan Carter: ‘Seeing a psychologist allowed me to confront my demons’

The World Cup winner discusses what makes a great player, rugby’s mental burdens and switching sports for Soccer AidDan Carter may be one of the leading rugby players of any era, a World Cup winner and the record points scorer in Test rugby, but he admits to being captured by nerves as he prepares for the end of his career in Europe before moving to Japan. The New Zealand fly-half, whose three-year stint with Racing 92 ended in anticlimax when injury ruled him out of the European Champions Cup final against Leinster last month and the Pro 14 semi-final against Castres, is in the Rest…