Jerome Kaino: ‘I do feel American, I like it when I see rugby growing in America’

The seasoned All Black is proud of his US heritage and relishing a return to Chicago to face Ireland as the world champions look to extend their winning runIn another world, Jerome Kaino could have run out in Chicago on Friday in a USA shirt to face the New Zealand Maori. As it is, he is now 75 times an All Black, twice a World Cup winner, and the flanker who was born 33 years ago in American Samoa is set to face Ireland on Saturday instead.“I’m very proud of my heritage,” he says, “and yeah, I do feel American, in a way. I still have an American passport and I like it when I see rugby growing…

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