Michael Cheika will hyperlink up with Springbok flyhalf Handre Pollard subsequent season after the previous Australia and Argentina coach was unveiled as the brand new Leicester Tigers boss.
The English Premiership membership on Thursday confirmed the appointment of Cheika from the 2024/25 marketing campaign. He joins Tigers after a two-year stint as head coach of Los Pumas, who he led to fourth place on the 2023 Rugby World Cup.
A European Cup and Celtic League winner with Leinster and Tremendous Rugby winner with the Waratahs, Cheika has additionally coached at three Rugby World Cups – Argentina in 2023 and reaching the ultimate with Australia in 2015 and quarter-finals in 2019 – in addition to one Rugby League World Cup with Lebanon.
“We’re more than happy to have the ability to appoint somebody of Michael’s expertise and historical past with success to the function of head coach,” Leicester Tigers CEO Andrea Pinchen stated.
“He has, over greater than 20 years, achieved nice success in successful trophies but additionally creating gamers, creating coaches and galvanising teams to be the most effective they are often.
“We wish that, we’d like that and imagine Michael is the suitable individual to take this group, this membership again to the place we all know we ought to be.”
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On his appointment, Cheika added: “Actually, I wasn’t trying on the Premiership and didn’t have the need to teach in it till Leicester Tigers got here to me. However, the chance to teach at Tigers and lead this group of gamers turned my head.”
“I need this to be my finest teaching but. I need the preparation and the way in which we lead the group, to be at my finest degree. If I can deliver my finest degree, different individuals will deliver their finest degree and good issues will begin to occur round us.
“All people can see that it’s a top-quality roster the membership has. I’m not going to lie and say I do know each single certainly one of them all the way down to their bones however that’s what I’ll do over the subsequent few months, to learn to get the most effective out of them.
“However, the roster is simply paper. It’s now about how the group gels, the way to put these actually good gamers and characters collectively and get them taking part in in a means that they adore it and a means they love going on the market, collectively, and representing Leicester Tigers.”
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