Professionals they may be, but even the best rugby players in the world worry about messing up.Three worries--injury, mental errors and physical mistakes during play--accounted for 44 per cent of the stressors players from the United Kingdom and Ireland felt over the course of a study conducted in part by the University of Alberta in Edmonton, Canada.Since rugby union in the UK and Ireland became a professional sport in 1996, demands have mounted on players.
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