Belonging: The Autobiography

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Someone who never takes selection for granted, so much so that he views the eve-of-Test meal as the Last Supper because it might never happen again. He was named as the best player of the 2019 Six Nations Championship and in 2021 was picked as captain for the Lions tour of South Africa. This is where the story of Alun Wyn Jones's journey begins, the story that every child who has dreamt of playing rugby for their country starts with. Instead, he drew hope from a consultant’s view that the injury could be rehabbed and set about installing altitude equipment and a hyperbaric chamber at his house.

But is it also about perthyn – belonging, playing for Wales, working your way through the age-grades and the club matches and regional sides.Alun Wyn Jones is a towering figure in the Welsh and british lions team but in this book he reveals much about his own insecurity as an individual.

Told with characteristic honesty, this is his unique personal story of what it takes and what it means to play for your what it means to belong. Finance is provided by PayPal Credit (a trading name of PayPal UK Ltd, Whittaker House, Whittaker Avenue, Richmond-Upon-Thames, Surrey, United Kingdom, TW9 1EH). As we know, he became a colossus: 148 Wales caps (and counting), 12 Lions caps, four World Cups, multiple Six Nations titles and Grand Slams. People think they know him but unless you read this book you will never know the REAL Alun Wyn Jones' – Warren Gatland‘One of the greatest, and seemingly indestructible, players in history' – A Daily Mail Book of the YearBelonging is the story about how the boy from Mumbles became the most capped rugby union player of all time. Born in Swansea, AWJ made his test debut for Wales in June 2006 against Argentina, and came to prominence in the 2007 campaign before Wales won the Grand Slam in 2008.The top-right hand corners of four pages in the middle of the book had been folded in to form triangles about an inch deep. He is very honest about his love, but complicated relationship with a father who was a larger than life character, but also how he has sacrificed much of his own personal life to rugby. From the tightness in your stomach to the look on your team-mates' faces, the adrenaline starting to flow within.

Jones verteld ons zijn verhaal in een oprechte manier, verteld veel over spelers met wie hij heeft mogen spelen (zoals mijn grote held, Paul O'Connell) en wat hem heeft gebracht waar hij nu is. Seen by many as one of the greatest Welsh players of all time he has won three Grand Slams for Wales, and was named the best player of the 2019 Six Nations Championship. He is often presented in the media as being stand offish and not the shy and focused player that he sees himself to be.But is it also about perthyn – belonging, playing for Wales, working your way through the age-grades and the club matches and regional sides. I’ve got ‘grumpy bastard’ in the locker,” the Wales and Lions captain admits in the book, published by Macmillan. We don’t share your credit card details with third-party sellers, and we don’t sell your information to others. From playing on the rain-swept pitches of Swansea to making his test debut against Argentina in Patagonia in 2006; from touring with the Lions in 2009, 2013, 2017 and 2021 to dealing with loss and creating a family - Belonging is the autobiography of one of the most compelling figures in world rugby. From the rain swept pitches of Swansea to making his test debut against Argentina in Patagonia in 2006, from touring with the Lions in 2009, 2013, 2017 and 2021 to losing a father and building a family, Belonging is the autobiography of one of the most compelling figures in World rugby.

He offers sharp analysis of colleagues he has worked with – Shaun Edwards, Gavin Henson, Fox Davies, Leigh Halfpenny – and there is recognition that he can improve as both as a father and a husband.It’s doubtful that anyone else would have contemplated such a rapid comeback, let alone achieved it. At its heart, again and again, we get to understand the mindset of the world’s most-capped player, one of the all-time greats, yet someone who still pinches himself that he’s sitting on the same bus as Neil Jenkins. Olivier Magne, former French rugby captain Alun Wyn Jones is the most capped rugby player of all time. When he got the all-clear to fly out to South Africa to join his Lions team-mates, he barely left his aeroplane seat to reduce the risk of contracting Covid. Told with unflinching honesty, this is the ultimate story of what it takes and what it means to play for your country: what it means to belong .