Les Cusworth

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Les Cusworth
Date of birth (1954-07-31) 31 July 1954 (age 70)
Place of birth Normanton, West Yorkshire, England
Rugby union career
Position(s) Fly-half
Senior career
YearsTeamApps(Points)
Wakefield RFC ()
Moseley ()
1978-1990 Leicester Tigers 365 (947)
International career
YearsTeamApps(Points)
1979–1988 England 12 (12)
Coaching career
YearsTeam
England sevens
– Worcester RFC

Les Cusworth (born 31 July 1954) is a former English rugby union footballer and current Argentine Director of Rugby. [1] [2]

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Education

He was educated at Normanton Grammar School and the West Midlands College of Education, a teacher training college (now part of the University of Wolverhampton). [3]

Playing career

He started his club career at Wakefield RFC where he set the British club record of 25 drop goals in just 21 games in the 1974–75 season and helped Wakefield reach the semi-finals of the John Player Cup in 1975–76. [4]

He later moved to Moseley and Leicester Tigers from where he won 12 England caps over nine years (1979–1988), [5] although he was never really favoured by the English management as he was an unpredictable running fly half.[ citation needed ]

He played 365 times for Tigers scoring 947 points, [6] and playing alongside Paul Dodge, Clive Woodward, Nick Youngs in Tigers' three-time John Player Cup winning sides between 1979 and 1981.

He also played for English Colleges, British Colleges, Yorkshire, North East Counties and played in the North Midlands team which won the county championships in 1978.

After retirement

After retiring from playing, he coached an England sevens team, including Lawrence Dallaglio and Matt Dawson to an unexpected World Cup victory at Murrayfield in 1993.

He was director of rugby at Worcester RFC before working freelance and as a rugby public speaker [7] before taking over as Director of Rugby at the Argentina Rugby Union.

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References

  1. ↑ "Rugby union: Cusworth states Pumas' case". The Guardian . London. 9 November 2006.
  2. ↑ "Les Cusworth plots as Pumas keep low profile". The Daily Telegraph. London. Retrieved 2 June 2022.
  3. ↑ Official match programme, England v New Zealand 24 November 1979
  4. ↑ Wakefield Rugby Football Club—1901-2001 A Centenary History. Written and compiled by David Ingall in 2002
  5. ↑ "Leslie Cusworth". ESPNscrum.
  6. ↑ [ permanent dead link ]
  7. ↑ "Archived copy" (PDF). therightaddress.co.uk. Archived from the original (PDF) on 20 November 2008. Retrieved 15 January 2022.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link)
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