Georges Coste

Georges Coste (born Perpignan, December 7, 1944) is a French rugby union coach and former player.

Biography

Coste debuted playing as fly half in the local club U.S.A. Perpignan, and scored several caps for French junior national teams before his career was halted by a serious injury.

As a coach, he trained U.S.A. Perpignan, Frotignan and BUC (from Barcelona) clubs, and, in 1993, he replaced Bertrand Fourcade as coach of Italian national team. Under his lead Italy obtained several historical victories against Ireland (three times in 1995-1997), Scotland (1997) and France at 1995–97 FIRA Trophy, by 40-32, the later Italy's first victory against that team. These victories helped Italy to gain admittance to the Six Nations tournament starting from 2000.

Coste was fired by the Italian Federation a few months before the 1999 World Cup. Later he was assistant coach at Stade Français Paris.

Since 2006 he is supervisor of Italy's junior national teams.

External links

Article About Georges Coste (In Italian)

Sporting positions
Preceded by Bertrand Fourcade	Italy National Rugby Union Coach 1993–1999	Succeeded by Massimo Mascioletti

Italy squad – 1995 Rugby World Cup

Forwards	Arancio Capuzzoni Castellani Checchinato Croci Mas. Cuttitta (c) Dal Sie Favaro Gardner Giacheri Giovanelli Grespan Orlandi Pedroni Properzi Scaglia Sgorlon Trevisiol

Backs	Bonomi Bordon Mar. Cuttitta Dotto Domínguez Francescato Gerosa Mazzariol Platania Ravazzolo Troiani Troncon Vaccari

Coach	Coste

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