FORMER ALL BLACKS fly-half and double World Cup winner Dan Carter will rejoin Racing 92 in March to “win the European Champions Cup”, the only competition he’s yet to win, club owner Jacky Lorenzetti said on Sunday.
“It’s the only title he’s missing, he added to his collection with Japan’s Top League in December so why not become a European champion with us,” Lorenzetti said.
“He wanted to come back, we wanted to have him back, we came to an agreement very quickly on financial conditions,” he said.
Coach Laurent Travers played down Carter’s impact on the side who face Toulouse in a Champions Cup quarter-final tie on 31 March.
The French Top 14 club announced he would return on a short-term deal from Japanese side Kobelco Steelers until the end of the season as cover for ex-South Africa fly-half Pat Lambie who announced his immediate retirement in January due to numerous concussions.
Carter, 36, played for the Parisian side for three seasons between 2015-18 when he won the French title but was a runner up in two European finals.
He scored 445 points in 58 games during his last stint in Paris.
Before that he won New Zealand’s provincial competition with Canterbury and Super Rugby with franchise the Crusaders.
On the international front he twice lifted the World Cup, the Tri Nations and The Rugby Championship as well as a British and Irish Lions Test series with the All Blacks.
Carter’s previous spell in France was tarnished on two occasions.
He tested positive for anti-inflammatory drug corticosteroids in 2016 but was eventually cleared of any wrongdoing in April 2017.
In the same year, he was caught driving while two-times over the legal alcohol limit by French police.