Itoje and Obano - being cousins, a Nigerian upbringing, podcasts and documentaries
Cousins Maro Itoje and Beno Obano join Dylan Hartley on this week's England Rugby Podcast: O2 Inside Line.
We delve into the story of how Maro and Beno grew up with each other and they reveal what the other one was like, the discuss some of the differences and expectations in Nigerian culture and how neither of them thought about being professional rugby players at a young age. Beno opens up on winning his first England cap recently and how his neighbours all congratulated him, while Maro talks about his new found latest hobby and the amount of new fish he has, and can name, in his pond. Maro also tells the tale about going to the same school at the same time as Owen Farrell and reveals the interesting hair style the now England skipper had during his school days! Beno talks about how the documentary Everybody's Game came about and the process of making it and Maro open us why he entered the world of podcasting with Pearl Conversations.
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