The All Blacks Win Team Of The Year At Laureus Awards!

They have proven nearly unbeatable in the rugby world and now the All Blacks have seen off the very best of every other code.

The Rugby World Cup champions this morning extended their dominance to a truly global scale, collecting the team of the year trophy at the Laureus World Sports Awards in Berlin.

The award capped off a breakthrough evening for the All Blacks, after Dan Carter earlier in the night claimed the comeback of the year award.

Possessing a success rate of more than 90 per cent in the last four years and having become the first team to claim back-to-back World Cups, the All Blacks could be forgiven for becoming a little weary of the repetitive winning.

Except, that is, for the fact this morning was their first taste of success at the Laureus Awards, having walked away empty-handed on five previous occasions.

But the full weight of their achievements was unable to be ignored this year, beating out the likes of Barcelona and the Golden State Warriors to find themselves on top of the world.

Captain Richie McCaw and coach Steve Hansen picked up their prize at a star-studded ceremony at Messe Berlin, receiving the trophy from Germany's World Cup-winning coach Joachim Loew and former All Black captain Sean Fitzpatrick.

"To win this award is pretty special," McCaw said. "We're a little country from a long way away and just to be nominated and be among people like you is pretty amazing.

"The fact you're recognised alongside teams like Barcelona is pretty cool. When I was in America, when I had time off in 2013, I went to watch the Golden State Warriors versus the New York Knicks and [Stephen] Curry scored 50-something points on his.

"Then a couple of years later you see him dominate and win the NBA, so it's pretty surreal really to be mixing alongside some of these superstars."

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