Perry Baker leads USA into battle at the Rugby World Cup 7s!

he's a showman he's a showman off the court he has a great personality he's a great character he's very outgoing and that's our Perry is a standards guy and if we go to the places we want to go we have to reach the highest standard and Perry will hold everyone accountable. One of the most amazing parts of playing with him is that everything is fine and in traditional

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, you do this, in this situation you can throw out half of those rules because Perry is going to do things that no one else could do. he's going to take a step, two guys are going to run through him and they're just going to score and you're going to wonder: how the hell did he do that?

My first training session with prospective USA

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players. Perry Baker was one of those players and he caught my attention very quickly. I moved to bring him in. I enrolled him in residency so he could compete properly and full-time with the Eagles. I just looked at the man. I looked at the athlete. I looked at what I could become. I saw huge raw potential, raw speed that can't be bought. and that's why this guy is fast, he's Mercury released from the bottle, you know you can depend on him if you need it, you know you can come to them with anything and he's genuine, the guy is genuine, the debut of my ego was on the Gold Coast. and uh, at first I was just a sponge, I was trying to learn a lot, he was nervous, he was agitated, but he had this underlying confidence that as he got his chance, hopefully he could make his mark, duratolo.

Now they've told Baker, he's fast, they won't catch him, test flight time. Baker wanted to see him in action, that's quality and you could see from the start the potential that he could get laid. himself and Perry took it pretty well oh my gosh, oh my gosh, oh my gosh, we got a special one at Perry Baker, the guys around me just trusted me and gave me that trust and I learned a lot, you know, and it's It's a lot of fun, we have the greatest respect for Samoa. You know I think they've been one of the four best teams in the second half of the season and I think if we can get the ball and hold it, we can have great physicality we have great pace and great power and we and we can cause them problems we're ready to go like the race was good, the guys had a good mood and it was fun today Perry is very passionate, very vocal, there's energy before the game and that excitement, you know, we can feed off that, we can take off that, but it will be It is necessary for everyone to make sure they do their job and that we take our moments, hey honey, he is a very caring man, he will teach you the ropes in a very selfless way and that is the teammate you really need if you want to win the Cup of the World starts tomorrow starts from the first kick off we have a game a 14 minute game that's all that matters so you know, have a good rest night and enjoy it when you wake up in the morning there's one thing on our mind and that's my way 338 tomorrow night sevens knockout rugby match Rugby World Cup Cape Town anything can happen it's half cap to half great awareness Chris Simone is out why they throw him in at a beautiful moment, we're going straight through a pretty weak defense.

Scanlon is the one who receives a ball now, man, oh man, there he goes too high the bank again and again and covers, there's the hole, there's the broken pass. Good time, try it, you have no choice, we can take the shirt, we have to come back tomorrow and we have to do it, we have to do justice to the whole patch on the front of your shirt and the nail on the back, it's not about . you and if you wake up tomorrow morning and that's not something you're ready to do, tell Mike and we'll put your shirt in the bag and I'll go out with whoever the other six of us want to go with, oh.

OMG I went and played one year in 2017. It was just Unreal showing that the hard work and dedication you put into things and believing in yourself like this will pay off when they invited him to Monaco to be in the top three . like there's no chance he's going to win this there's no chance he's going to win this I'm looking at his stats I think you've got this I want to win that that was for that was for Brian that was for Tiger that was for people believe in themselves for that was that first time when I really won it this game will be won and lost on the restart whether we are kicking off or receiving it, whoever has the ball and can control possession in these conditions will prosper a couple of weeks I stood in the circle and asked you to show me what being a dog meant to you and you delivered against South Africa give me the same thing again we do everything together one two three but now We plan to have that flag on our chest.

The action comes at you fast here on the second day of our three-day tournament. USA and Wales. It has the label. He has been one of the best players in the

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purely and simply because he is tremendously elusive with the ball. in hand Crossfield is down, here's Perry Baker, he watches the eagle fly makeup make the first down in this game. It's a pleasure to see how the United States will win this one. I would describe Perry as the ultimate competitor. He wants to beat you inside and out. Uruguay and the USA have a lot to play for these teams.

He played as calmly as you play with for most of the last game. You will be where you need to be well. You get trapped in a frenetic

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of chaos and then everything. Suddenly you're playing in his lord, there's Baker in space, that's discouraging, oh he doesn't need the outside, in and out, Terry Baker's brilliant visual, USA, in this foreign, we've defeated the United States of America, we have to choose each other. If we didn't do it, no one says you're not working hard, but we didn't do it and he dusted us off once again and we repeat too much talent, there's too much skill, but there has to be more application.

There has to be more action, less work and there has to be a commitment to be consistent in those actions and it has to start from this moment, it's just the nature of the game of Sevens, but for us, you know this tournament is what March Madness was. in September, but it's about doing things right, laying the foundation for what comes next, we're going into an Olympic qualifying season as young men and there's an emerging and evolving team and that's what counts because that's all. On trying to find his way to the Olympics on the field, Perry's value is immediately evident to anyone who has seen the US sevens team play.

I mean, you can barely watch a game without him making two or three things you've never seen in anyone else and Baker Baker Terry Baker won't stop him. I mean, it's a great spark and a boost of energy and I think sometimes I want to say it's the nature of a sevens tournament that you're playing six games, you're banged up, you're bruised. you're tired, you may have lost the last game in devastating fashion and now you have to get up and start again and I think Perry's ability to change that mentality about where he's going to be the one to bring that energy and get guys going. gear and putting the team's energy in the right place is between the USA Eagles and Kenya, five Terry Bakers on the outside Baker looking to cut rhythms, a couple of Perry Bakers for the line we call magic and the USA just call it TV I know Faker, speedsticks outdid it once again at the Rugby World Cup Sevens.

The USA will win this one, they will take 11th place in the Rugby World Cup that we got out of Kenya if you enjoyed tonight, if you enjoy what you need. Just remember where you need to be, how you need to be at the beginning of the preseason. Thunderman didn't turn out the way we wanted. It felt good to leave him with what Prairie can accomplish and do whatever he wants. To be honest, he could play this game for a long time. I told him, brother, you're a damn nature. He deserves all the glory and recognition for the work he has done and all the sacrifices he has made.

He will probably be able to continue producing. in the World Series for as long as he wants, he is not going to become a very good rugby player, as I said, he has also become a very good man and I think that is the testament that will stand him in good stead for anyone. whatever he chooses. to do after rugby uh what's next for Perry Baker? I want to be a coach. I really want to be a coach. I see myself coaching the seventh team, um, in 2024. You know, I see myself taking over Mike's job when he's done.

I'm trying, I'm learning with it, so right now I'm focused on playing, but do I have my thoughts on next steps?