ScrumFive

I am a rugby player. I am a coach. I am a rugby fan.

This blog is about my love for the game, my travels, my friends and my experiences in this world both as a coach or simple fan.

I begun coaching Rugby few years ago, when an injury put an end to my playing days. I first turned into a team manager for my former squad, but I soon realised that I was missing the field badly. I wanted more. I needed more. This is why I turned into a coach. I felt the need to learn more about the game and to pass my knowledge to others, so my first experience has been with mini-Rugby. In the meantime I attended to FIR (Italian Rugby Union) coaching courses and qualified as Second Level Coach.

In the 2007/2008 season I faced the most difficult task in my Rugby career: coaching a male Under 15 team. It has been a great, and at the same time, wearying experience: I learnt a lot and I hope – and I know – I have passed something to my players too.

But this part of my rugby life is over now, along with my career in my old club where I took my first steps in rugby both as player and coach, and where I leave some very good friends behind.

After a well-deserved sabbatical I think, perhaps, I recharged my batteries enough and I am ready to give something to others again.

So I started to look for a new place in this world… apparently I had to come back home to start it all over again in the local rugby club of my hometown… A new adventure begins…

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…”Ka Mate, Ka Mate! Ka Ora, Ka Ora!”… “Tis death! ‘tis death! ’Tis life! ‘tis life!”

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