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Flamboyant French outfit, Toulon will enter Sunday's European Rugby Championship quater final crunch encounter against Wasps with their eyes firmly fixed on one asset: To become the first team in history to win a hat-trick of European Cups.
For someone who once famously raced a cheetah, Bryan Habana has made an impressive fist of ensuring his career has been a marathon rather than a sprint. It is more than 10 years since a 21-year-old Habana made a try-scoring debut for South Africa at Twickenham, and in that time he has won two Super Rugby titles, the 2007 World Cup, last year’s Heineken Cup and Top 14 double as well as scoring international try No57 last November.
All this when international wings are getting bigger, faster, stronger and younger – George North has more than 50 caps, aged 22, but his career could already be in danger, according to some commentators, should he take another blow to the head.
The evergreen wing, Habana has his eyes set on dominating for club and country, starting with providing the fatal sting for Wasps on Sunday.
“It does get harder to keep doing it, without a doubt. It’s probably like that for all players that want to be seen as the best. I think the pressure you put on yourself is to constantly succeed and that pressure only becomes more once you are a world champion and once you are a title holder. If you want to stay at No1 then you gotta train like you’re No2," Habana said during the launch of ‘We Deal In Real’, Land Rover’s Rugby World Cup 2015 campaign.
“The drive is still there and for me it is about playing a level of rugby that is good enough to be selected for the World Cup and being in an environment where you are constantly driven by the players around you,” he added.
Toulon have won 10 of their 11 Champions Cup games against English opposition including all five home games.
Flamboyant French outfit, Toulon will enter Sunday's European Rugby Championship quater final crunch encounter against Wasps with their eyes firmly fixed on one asset: To become the first team in history to win a hat-trick of European Cups.
For someone who once famously raced a cheetah, Bryan Habana has made an impressive fist of ensuring his career has been a marathon rather than a sprint. It is more than 10 years since a 21-year-old Habana made a try-scoring debut for South Africa at Twickenham, and in that time he has won two Super Rugby titles, the 2007 World Cup, last year’s Heineken Cup and Top 14 double as well as scoring international try No57 last November.
All this when international wings are getting bigger, faster, stronger and younger – George North has more than 50 caps, aged 22, but his career could already be in danger, according to some commentators, should he take another blow to the head.
The evergreen wing, Habana has his eyes set on dominating for club and country, starting with providing the fatal sting for Wasps on Sunday.
“It does get harder to keep doing it, without a doubt. It’s probably like that for all players that want to be seen as the best. I think the pressure you put on yourself is to constantly succeed and that pressure only becomes more once you are a world champion and once you are a title holder. If you want to stay at No1 then you gotta train like you’re No2," Habana said during the launch of ‘We Deal In Real’, Land Rover’s Rugby World Cup 2015 campaign.
“The drive is still there and for me it is about playing a level of rugby that is good enough to be selected for the World Cup and being in an environment where you are constantly driven by the players around you,” he added.
Toulon have won 10 of their 11 Champions Cup games against English opposition including all five home games.
