Rugby: Kotaro Matsushima makes good on his pre-match hat-trick promise

While many of his Japanese teammates showed signs of nerves during the Rugby World Cup opener on Friday, wing Kotaro Matsushima was on song from the start and focused on keeping his pre-match hat-trick promise."Some of my teammates were getting too tense or trying too hard. I had fun from the start and did not have any awkward nerves," Matsushima said following the match against Russia in which he scored three tries in his team's 30-10 win."The experience of playing (wing in all four of Japan's matches) at the previous World Cup helped," he said.Teammate Ryoto Nakamura revealed before the m…READ FULL ARTICLE