1995 Rugby World Cup Mandela Pienaar Polo - Navy

The movie �Invictus� based on the 1995 Rugby World Cup starred Morgan Freeman and Matt Damon. The poem �Invictus�, did provide much solace to Mandela during his imprisonment on Robben Island. But it wasn�t Invictus that he gave to Pienaar just before the tournament. Rather, it was Theodore Roosevelt�s �The Man in the Arena�. �The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood�