The All Blacks were visited by rugby legend and MND sufferer Joost van der Westhuizen

The AB’s met the former scrum-half at their training ground this week.

FORMER SOUTH AFRICAN scrum-half Joost van der Westhuizen was diagnosed with Motor Neurone Disease in 2011 and is now confined to a wheelchair. The All Blacks are in South Africa for their Rugby Championship clash against the Springboks this weekend, and met up with the rugby legend.

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It is very sad to see what has happened to van der Westhuizen, who is unquestionably one of the all-time great scrum-halfs.

Here he is doing the impossible in 1995, tackling the man-mountain Jonah Lomu in the World Cup final.

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And here are some more highlights of the great van der Westhuizen.

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